Access to long varchars in SQL Central Debugger Watch List

[justin_willey]

It would be useful if you could get access to the whole of a long varchar from the Watch list of the Debugger. Currently (v6 ie SQLA 11) it only shows the first 250 chars in a single line, a dialog box (as in the data grids) would be great.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Justin,

Thank you for your suggestion. We are not sure if returning all the data in a long value from the server to the debugger all the time is necessarily the correct approach; but perhaps providing a mechanism for the user to indicate how much of a long column should be returned is doable and the better approach. We will therefore consider making a future enhancement to the debugger and server to allow users to fetch more data when viewing long values.

[justin_willey · Accepted solution]

Thanks Karim - I was thinking that it would only be fetched on demand (as when you drill down in the data grid)

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

@Justin Yes that certainly would be ideal. We will try and come up with something reasonable and useful. Again, thanks for the suggestion.