Musings on SQL Server Manageability

I've moved back to my old hunting ground, SQL Server's Management Platform Team. For information about DataDude, you should see Gert or Cameron's blogs ( http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd or http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons ).

Gert's posted info about the service release in his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2007/03/22/announcing-service-release-1.aspx .

She's got a blog entry at http://blogs.msdn.com/mairead/archive/2007/03/16/visual-designers-in-database-professionals.aspx and is looking to hear what kind of visual designers you'd like to see in a future release of db pro..... If you have thoughts...

I'm starting to write up our next generation scenarios for unit testing and data generation. We have some feedback, but anything more you'd like to add please email me directly.

If so you should read and give feedback on this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/mairead/archive/2007/02/21/do-you-use-database-diagrams.aspx

Visual Studio Team System Chat – This Wed Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In...

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264457(vs.80).aspx is the link....

Visual Studio Team System Chat - Wed, Feb 7th Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In...

I'm back after a long winter break.... We're deep into planning v2 now, so if you have feature requests, ideas, etc. you can send them to me at rwaymi@microsoft.com .

We recently made some changes to the download of the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Add-on to try to clear up some initial confusion customers were reporting. This is the add-on which installs into Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite...

I'm speaking this morning at the New York City MSDN Launch event, then doing Raleigh/Durham on Thursday.... Hopefully I'll meet some of you reading this while on the road!

Attaching the right copy of the paper this time. Thanks Jamie for reading it! Will post the production link when it's available.

The readme.htm file is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E1E22BEC-A937-4E09-A16A-2FD69D711053&displaylang=en The trial edition download is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7de00386-893d-4142...

We made it! Rather than repeat a bunch of info, I'm going to link you to Matt Nunn's blog entry. http://blogs.msdn.com/mattnunn/archive/2006/12/04/we-have-rtm-d-visual-studio-2005-team-edition-for-database-professionals-releases-to-manufacturing.aspx...

We should be shipping VERY soon (maybe even today). The weather hasn't helped here... :-) So now we're figuring out what to do with the next couple releases. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see different, some new feature area, or improvements...

Wanted to say thanks to the folks that were at PASS and either came to the party or were by the booth. I enjoyed talking with you and hearing about your experiences with the product! It's fun to get your feedback and tell me what we can do better in version...

For the trial version of RTM, we will require the suite product or the trial suite product. For the regular retail version, we will only require VS Pro. Because CTP7 is based on our eval code, and because we're so close to shipping, we enabled this...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/1/9/319c5020-0fed-4dc1-b043-69567fda3941/TeamDataCTP7.exe is the link. For details on what's new/different, see GertD's blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2006/11/02/ctp7-is-live.aspx . It's...

Want to find out more about Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals? Come and join members from the Visual Studio TS Data product group to discuss features currently available in their product. There will be experts on hand to answer your...

Click here for the download . We've done a HUGE amount of work on performance, improving interpreter understanding of sql server 2005, and general product improvements. Please download and use CTP6. Give us your feedback on the forums, and let us know...

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in Visual Studio Code...

We've been recording some short videos of tasks to do in your project system. The videos will appear on Channel 9 and on JumpStart.tv. The latest video is on Creating a database project, and can be found at: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID...

Glad to have that finally moving forward. We're VERY slammed with fixing the last few bugs to get the product ready to ship... I did find out I'll be speaking at SQL Connections in early November in Las Vegas, and then at PASS in Seattle the following...

Been heads down in crunch mode triaging and fixing bugs, getting us ready for CTP6. But, I'm finally almost done with the paper. Hopefully editing/formatting won't take too long and it'll be on the web soon. FYI in my earlier post I forgot a permission...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/TEDBPro.asp What Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Can Do for You Check out this paper - it's a good overview at the 20,000 foot...