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Oracle provider Beta Available!

camerons — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:44:51 GMT

As many of you already know, I started my career at Microsoft as the PUM responsible for building the first version of Database Professionals, which was later merged into the VSTS Developer box.

I was thrilled to see the announce email ( which I have pasted verbatim into this post ) hit my inbox, announcing the beta availability of the Oracle DSP provider that works with the beta version of VSTS 2010. What this essentially means is that with these new bits from Quest Software, you can point the DBPro functionality at an Oracle database!

If you have seen the capabilities that the DBPro feature set enables but have been unable to take advantage of it due to the fact that your organization runs on top of an Oracle database, follow some of the links below!

You'll be glad you did!

Cameron

<BetaAnnounceEmail>

The beta is LIVE!!
It seems like just yesterday that we began working on Project Fuze, the DSP for Oracle database support in Visual Studio Team System 2010… maybe that’s because I didn’t have to write the code! Anyway, after many, many months in our super-secret development lab we’ve finally finished the beta version! The public beta is now available on TeamFuze.net – make sure that you visit Microsoft’s site for more information on their public beta of Visual Studio Team System 2010 since you’ll need to have that running in order to try out Project Fuze.

Your participation is key!
Beta participation is free and open to anyone. However, in order to make the software actually useful to you, we need to hear back from you about the things you like (send that to me…) as well as the things you don’t like (send that to the developers!). Seriously, without your invaluable feedback, the beta is nothing more than a glorified preview. We want to do everything possible to make sure that Project Fuze will deliver an excellent experience and make you more productive in Visual Studio Team System; we can’t do that without your consistent, honest feedback. So please join the forums and post often! We’re listening!

Check out the video!
We recorded a video demonstration of how to use Project Fuze inside of Visual Studio Team System 2010. In it we cover creating a new Oracle database project, importing your schema, managing and altering objects, comparing your changes to the live schema and deploying them back to the database. Don’t forget to bookmark our YouTube playlist for future video updates.

Thanks to all of you for your patience these last few months!

-- The TeamFuze Team

For more information or to opt out of this newsletter, please contact info@teamfuze.net

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Oracle DSP Provider and Quest Software

camerons — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:09:38 GMT

I just wanted to make sure everyone had heard of the great news that was announced today at VSLive! in San Francisco. Quest Software has announced that it will be building atop the rich extensibility infrastructure that is present in what was the VSTS Database Professionals box ( aka "Data Dude" ), now merged into the VSTS Developer box ( as of last October ), and providing a DSP provider targeting Oracle databases. This is great news, 'cause what this really means is that database developers can now use DBPro functionality against Oracle backends, in much the same way as database developers can work against SQL Server!

Check out some of the press coverage of the announce to learn more...

This was the culmination of a lot of hard work by many people from both Microsoft and Quest. I personally am very glad and happy to see this actually come to pass!

WooHoo! :)

Database Edition PowerTools Now Available!

camerons — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:47:00 GMT

The team has had our hands full getting all our V1 bits wrapped up and into Orcas Beta 2, while at the same time preparing and delivering our first Service Release, but we weren't done there! At the same time, we've also been very busy readying our first official PowerTool drop! I'm very glad to see the team deliver on this milestone, as not only do these tools bring new and increased power to our V1 SR1 product, but it also shows how serious the team is in regards to listening to your feedback, and turning that feedback into deliverables. Please take these tools ( details here and here, direct link to bits here ) out for a test drive ( remember, you must have SR1 installed first ), and as always, let us know what you think!

Cheers,

Cameron

ERWin for Database Edition

camerons — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:59:00 GMT

Just wanted to make sure all you ERWin users out there were aware of the fact that you can now use version 7.2 to model directly against a DBPro project! Please go here for more details. This gives you the ability to make changes to the physical schema of your database and automatically propogate those changes back into the project, injecting the appropriate model into the project as well.

We will be doing a web cast that discusses the features this integration exposes in more detail in the coming weeks, but for now, certainly download an eval copy ( if you don't own ERWin yet! ), and give it a shot!

Cheers! Cameron