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Jamie Laflen and Barclay Hill wrote a great, must read article for MSDN Magazine, detailing the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR functionality. Besides that it has a great intro describing the base principles of offline database schema Read More...

Today Quest Software announced that they will offer a Database Schema Provider (DSP) for Oracle that plugs in to the Visual Studio Team System 2010 release. You can read the announcement at the Quest Software website: http://www.quest.com/newsroom/news-releases-show.aspx?contentid=9102 Read More...

The Visual Studio Team System Database Edition team has created a new blog site to keep you informed and update about the latest developments. Please check out: http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsdb Thanks, -GertD Read More...

Some of you already know or noticed through sites like LinkedIn or Facebook that per the beginning of this month I started in a new role inside Microsoft. I moved in to an Software Architect role, working on the new Directory Services stack. Hence I needed Read More...

Genevieve, tester on the “DataDude” team, has created a new Data Generator which allows you to populate a random set of sparse columns through the use of an XML column set column. She posted it on the VS Code Gallery, http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/columnsetgenerator Read More...