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Just a quick follow-up... did UUID ever make it into NORMA? I'm doing a bit of work where we're using UUIDs in SQL Server 2008, and at the moment I'm just doing a search / replace in the generated script. My next step will be to customize our output transform, but it'll just be a dirty hack.

I started a thread in the Feature Request section that morphed into some updates on how NORMA is being used at my work. Since the continued updates may be of interest, it would probably be a good idea to continue the discussion outside the tech support forum. During the beginning of the project the NORMA-generated SQL was a tough sell because it ...

I followed these steps with some minor modifications to create a customized SQL output for our company. After restarting Visual Studio the option isn't showing up in the ORMGeneratorSettings. Are these instructions up to date (11 June, 2012)?

A quick update for everyone that's interested: I carried on paring down the large model for a couple of days, then everyone else lost patience and wanted faster results. They decided that since we had such good results with building from the ground up on the first section I tackled, that we could use the same process and get quicker traction ...

You could try zooming out and dragging things from the context window into an empty area, then deleting all the shapes that were previously there. The down side is that you've now lost all your beautiful layout. Sorry, not terribly helpful. To my knowledge there's no "get what's not on this page" filter.

I love the "abbreviations" setting. That's made my day!

Ah yes, I did need to restart VS. Thanks! But it's interesting... changes to makeValidIdentifier are only showing up in a couple of areas. I think I'm going to experiment with my computer at home and see if it's the same there or if my work computer is having problems. Where are the abbreviation settings kept? After a bit of poking ...

Thanks for the quick response, Matt! The data type changes were easy enough to modify in DDILtoSqlServer.xslt. Names are a bit trickier. I've been hitting "Run Custom Tool" explicitly. Maybe I'm going through the wrong file? The one I'm editing is C:\Program Files (x86)\Common ...

I went into "ORM Model Browser" -> "Name Generation Settings" -> "Name Generation Defaults" -> "Relational Names" -> "Column Specific" -> "CasingOption". On the Relational View it gives the correct casing, but in the generated SQL it's still coming through as ...

Ken, Alas, your proposed procedure is exactly what I've been doing. It's quick enough for merging down a few hundred Object Types, but when the count gets into the thousands.... Interesting proposal for the "Lessons Learned" document. The domain is a direct sales company that is taking orders and paying commission to its sales ...