Is there a way to visually display a View in a database diagram in SQL Server 2008?

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Ken Burkhardt picture Ken Burkhardt · Aug 25, 2011 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

I would like to create a database diagram in SQL Server 2008 and have a View in the diagram. is there a way to do this?

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user756519 picture user756519 · Aug 25, 2011

I don't think so. SQL Server Management studio allows only Tables to be included in the database diagram. If you have Microsoft Visio, you can use that to include the Views in your database diagram.

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