DBeaver not showing any Comments/Remarks in MSSQL

Question

Recently, I am immigrating some data from Postgresql to a MSSQL2012 server. In SQLWorkbench, I can see comments on tables and columns in SQLServer.

But in DBeaver, I can't see any comment or remarks on any object. The Description column in Properties tab are always empty. Is this a configuration issue, or is DBeaver just not ready for this ?

Both SQLWorkbench and DBeaver are using MS' JDBC driver.

Answer 1

The Microsoft JDBC driver does not return that information through the standard JDBC API. I think the main reason for that is, that the driver uses sp_columns internally (at least the last time I checked - which is a couple of years back) and that procedure doesn't return that information.

I guess DBeaver simply has no special code to retrieve the "extended properties" for tables or columns for SQL Server, whereas SQL Workbench/J "knows" those extended properties