Sqlserver 2005 Management Studio 'Object Explorer' lists servers, similar to
Sqlserver 2000 Enterprise Manager.  However, I can't find any way to sort
object explorer's items?  Also Enterprise Manager let you create folders to
organize your registered servers; I can't find a way to do this in object
explorer either.

Is it possible to sort the connections and organize them by creating folders
in object explorer?  Or have we lost this GUI functionality by upgrading?

-Frank Brown

frank wrote:
Apparently they are sorted in insertion order.  I couldn't find a way to
change that yet.

Right mouse click new -> server group.

No.

    robert

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frank (somewh***@rainbow.net) writes:
How would you sort them if you could?

During the beta, they had some options to view by schema, but that was
dropped.

Since Object Explorer lists only servers that you are currently connected
to, it would not really make sense. At least, those folders could not be
stored anywhere.

On the other hand, you can organise Registered Servers in groups just
like you could in Enterprise Manager.

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