One of the interesting things during my year here at MSFT has been seeing the amount of time and effort that various teams put into building additional tools. A lot of times this is building power toy like extensions to existing environments or filling...

So, looking at the comments I see mostly a tilt towards get it done. I certainly understand a desire for designers, if done correctly, they can be a great boon to productivity. It is the getting them right part that is tricky. One of the comments talked...

As we have built the TSData story the focus has been around a SQL script experience because the current "designer tools" in VS: Tables, Queries, Databse, are all built for a connected experience, connect to a database modify it, see what happens. Our...

We are looking at what we will put into CTP5 and as we consider this a question arrises. This release may depend on having an instance of SQL Developer Edition installed on the local machine(currently we require SQL Express). However, SQL Dev edition...

CTP3 Project files can not be opened in on CTP4. If you are moving from CTP3 to CTP4 you will have to create new project files. If you have work that you want to capture a current state of a project you will have to deploy that state to a server and then...

The CTP4 Release is now available for download from http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/1/681f2f35-365c-4b47-a1ac-044f9801efb0/TeamDataCTP4.exe This release features a new project system with a separate project and schema view. You should see...

Channel 9 interviewed us a couple weeks ago right before TechEd and the interview just published up on the site. You get to meet the management team, hear about what we are trying to accomplish in V1 and see a walkthrough of CTP3 (the TechEd bits). CTP4...

Sachin Rekhi has added his blog to the growing list of team members blogging from Team Data. Sachin is focused on the areas that he currently designs for our team: unit testing, test data generation, refactoring and all the areas around database development...