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Channel 9 VSDB 2008 GDR Interview

We just released a new Channel 9 interview that covers the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR functionality that we introduced today. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/briankel/New-GDR-Announced-for-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2008-Database-Edition/ Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:09 AM by gertd | 1 Comments
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VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR June CTP

Today, at Tech*Ed 2008 Developer, we announced the immediate availability of the first public CTP of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR. GDR stands for General Distribution Release. The GDR will be an out-of-band release enabling Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:05 AM by gertd | 21 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

Command line SQL Static Code Analysis

We have had a lot of requests from users asking us to make T-SQL Static Code Analysis available at build time and from the command line. The latest Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tool release, adds this ability to the product through Read More...
Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 2:06 PM by gertd | 6 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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File Bound Generator

An other new addition to the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition - Power Tools release is the File Bound Generator. This data generator grovels through files inside a directory or optionally through its subdirectories, based on some search Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:31 PM by gertd | 4 Comments

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

Data Generation Wizard

One of the new features in the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition - Power Tools release is the addition of the Data Generation Wizard. The Data Generation Wizard is an item template wizard that allows you to create and configure a data generation Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:34 PM by gertd | 9 Comments
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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools

The “DataDude” team is happy to announce the availability of the Power Tools for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. The Power Tools for 2008 contains all the functionality we shipped in 2005 plus: Command line SQL Static Code Analysis execution Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:59 PM by gertd | 12 Comments
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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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