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Trace Helper

This is the last part of the 3 part diagnostics series. This part will introduce you to a little helper utility that I wrote to make configuring the diagnostics and tracing options a lot simpler and more accessible. As discussed in the previous two blog Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 17, 2008 3:16 PM by gertd | 1 Comments

Event Monitor

In part 2 of diagnosing problems I want to introduce you to an other build-in diagnostics tools that we might ask you to run with tracking down problems, the "event monitor". The event monitor is one of those tools that we use during development Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 17, 2008 1:49 PM by gertd | 2 Comments

Diagnosing Problems

How to diagnose problem inside Visual Studio Team System Database Edition is the subject for this blog post. When the product does not behave as expected we might ask you to create a trace of the activity that you are performing and send us the resulting Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 17, 2008 12:56 PM by gertd | 3 Comments

Tech·Ed 2008 Developers

In case you are coming to the Developer edition of Tech·Ed next week, we have a lot of exiting things for you. As you can see below there are many sessions, hosted in both the developer and database tracks. Breakout sessions, chalk talks, panel discussions Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:10 PM by gertd | 0 Comments

MSDB Reference Projects

The reference projects needed to resolve objects that reside inside an MSDB database have been posted on the MSDN Code Gallery site. You can find them on: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dbpromsdbsamples We did not post .dbmeta files but stub projects, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:50 PM by gertd | 1 Comments

Database Compatibility Level

VSTS-DB, both the 2005 and 2008 version, makes an assumption with regards to database compatibility levels, which can cause problems in certain use cases. The assumption is that the DesignDB instance used for validation of the schema inside the project Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:33 PM by gertd | 3 Comments
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Apply Test-Driven Development to your Database Projects

This months issue of MSDN Magazine features a great article about how to use and extend Database Unit Testing written by Jamie Laflen who is the developer and tech lead in my team responsible for Database Unit Testing, Data Generation, SQL Code Coverage Read More...
Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 10:31 PM by gertd | 1 Comments

Lorem ipsum

This morning I received email from the owner of the DbProGenerators project on CodePlex announcing the availability of the LoremTextGenerator, which is a data generator that creates Lorem ipsum texts. Please check out the CodePlex project site at http://www.codeplex.com/DbProGenerators Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:11 AM by gertd | 1 Comments
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Self Referencing

Lately we have been getting questions about self-referencing database calls. What I mean with that is that you are referencing SQL objects using a 3-part name while referencing objects that reside inside your current database context. For example: 1: Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:42 PM by gertd | 4 Comments
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Is DesignDB In Use?

When Visual Studio Team System Database Edition opens a design-time validation database, it acquires an exclusive application lock on the DesignDB database using the following code. 1: EXEC @rc = sp_getapplock N 'TSDATA' , N 'Exclusive' , N 'Session' Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:53 PM by gertd | 1 Comments
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Cleaning up DesignDB Leftovers

In the " DesignDB Location " blog post I described where the design-time validation database are created. The attentive reader would have wondered when design-time validation database file get cleaned up, since we create them at project creation time Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:24 PM by gertd | 1 Comments
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DesignDB Location

As you might know Visual Studio Team System Database Edition uses a local SQL Server database instance to validate the correctness of the code inside the database project. When you create a project a local scratch database is create for validation purposes, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:48 AM by gertd | 2 Comments
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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Now that Visual Studio 2008 is available, the question arises what has changed for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals in the 2008 edition? Not much is the answer. Since our first release was done completely out-of-band while other teams Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:26 PM by gertd | 13 Comments
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The Data Dude Meets Team Build

At DevConnections and TechEd Europe every attendee has been receiving a special issue of CoDe Magazine , featuring " Data Programmability ". In this issue you will find an article on how to get started with Team Build and VSDBPro, please check out http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=990712152 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:54 PM by gertd | 5 Comments

External Changes...

What happens when you make changes outside the scope of your project? What if you edit a file inside Notepad or sync your source code from your SCC system, either from the command line or from the VS IDE? Most users assume that the project automatically Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:44 PM by gertd | 3 Comments
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