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NESQL Presentation – Declarative Database Development

Last week, September 10, I was invited by the New England SQL Server User Group to present about my favorite topic “ Declarative Database Development ”. I posted the slides of the presentation at DBProj.com . GertD @ www.DBProj.com Read More...
Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 11:57 AM by gertd | 0 Comments

MyDevConnections Volume 2 issue 1

The DevConnections conference organization (Tech Conferences Inc.), just released the latest issue of the magazine accompanying the conferences, named: MyDevConnections . In this edition (volume 2, issue 1) you will find an article that I wrote about Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:26 PM by gertd | 0 Comments

VSDB 2008 Version Numbers

We frequently get asked how to identify the version a user is running with, so here is the list of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition releases. The information is retrieved using Help => About Microsoft Visual Studio inside the Visual Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:37 PM by gertd | 0 Comments

Assigning MSBuild Properties to SQLCMD Variables

I am receiving the following question a lot: How do I propagate MSBuild properties to SQLCMD variables. In order to make the Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition GDR release use the data from an MSBuild property inside a SQLCMD variable you Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 21, 2009 4:21 PM by gertd | 1 Comments

DBSchema file for SQL LiteSpeed XP’s

Based on a customer request I created a .dbschema file which contains the definitions of all the extended stored procedures used by SQL LiteSpeed 5.0 that live inside the master database. Since schema import does not import the definition of extended Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:10 PM by gertd | 2 Comments

Declarative Database Development

Define What You Want, Not How You Get There!   If Not Exists… Database development is many aspects behind in comparison to regular application development. If you look how database development is integrated with regular application development or Read More...
Posted Friday, June 05, 2009 3:58 PM by gertd | 10 Comments

RTM of VSDB 2008 GDR R2

The QFE rollup release for the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release is now available. You can download the SETUP.EXE from the regular location. ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:32 AM by gertd | 10 Comments
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DBProj.com

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...
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:37 PM by gertd | 2 Comments

More Team Developer + Data Edition Merge Information

Per October 1st 2008 MSDN subscribers who own or buy a new Visual Studio Team System Developer license are entitled to also install the Visual Studio Team System Database Edition, and  MSDN subscribers who own or buy a new Visual Studio Team System Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:25 PM by gertd | 7 Comments

Team Developer + Team Data = Team Developer!

In today's press release titled: " Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview " we announced the merge of the Developer Edition and Database Edition SKU's.   Better Together – Visual Studio Team System Development Edition Read More...
Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 3:06 PM by gertd | 11 Comments

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

Some recent VSDB Articles

Jeff Levinson recently wrote a great article in Visual Studio Magazine covering the upcoming GDR release: Introducing the VSTS Database Edition GDR and Jeffrey Juday just published an article on Developer.com about Database Unit Testing: Introducing Visual Read More...
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 6:44 PM by gertd | 2 Comments
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DataDude Goes Multi-Platform

Yesterday, during Bill Gates his Tech Ed keynote , Brian Harry had the honor to show the first glimpse of the results of our partnership with IBM, DB2 support inside Visual Studio Team System Database Edition. As you might know or have read in one of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:06 AM by gertd | 8 Comments
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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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