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Agile Database Techniques

I am happy to announce that there is a new class dedicated to VSDB. “ Agile Database Techniques ”, is a 3-days course that provides students with the knowledge and skills to properly manage the SQL Server database development lifecycle in an agile environment. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:16 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 | 1 Comments

Release Candidate of GDR QFE

Yesterday, March 25th, the development team released an RC of the upcoming QFE of the Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition GDR bits. I was surprised to read the new naming “ Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR v2 RC1 ”. Anyhow what is in Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:31 PM by gertd | 7 Comments
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SQL Connections Slides and Demo Posted

It was great to be able to meet many new users of the Database Edition product at the SQL Connection Spring 2009 conference this week. Thank you for attending the sessions. There were lots of great questions, critical feedback and input for new features Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:55 PM by gertd | 2 Comments

DBPROJ vs. DBP

Can the “real” database project please indentify itself? Life can be confusing and we did not help you making it much easier by having two types of Database Projects inside Visual Studio. For the longest time there has been a “Database Project” inside Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:52 AM by gertd | 3 Comments
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Up to SQL Connections Spring 2009 (Orlando, FL)

Next week I will be presenting at SQL Connections in Orlando where I will be covering some fun topics on DataDude and general SQL Server. Here is the list. SQL Connections Spring 2009 (Orlando, FL) SDB413: Automating Database Deployment Do you have a Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 11:46 AM by gertd | 0 Comments

FIX: Blank Unit Test Designer Problem

If you are running in to the following problem when creating unit tests when using database projects, there now is a fix! Consider the following scenario, you have you database project (.dbproj) open and requesting the creation of a Database Unit Test Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:21 PM by gertd | 1 Comments

Dealing with Confused Installations

  Is your Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR installation confused? Does your menu suffer from multiple instance disorder? Here is what you can do about it. Make sure that Visual Studio (devenv.exe) is closed. Start an elevated command Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 08, 2009 4:43 PM by gertd | 3 Comments
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VSTSDB Blog Site

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...
Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 9:36 PM by gertd | 1 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

Data Generator for SQL Server Sparse Columns

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...
Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 9:41 AM by gertd | 2 Comments
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Final Language Release of the GDR

Today we released the last language, Russian, of the planned localized versions of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR. This brings the total count to 10 (including English). You can download the Russian edition of the GDR from the following Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:47 PM by gertd | 2 Comments
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File Level Build Warning Suppression in the GDR

One of the small, but hard to discover new features in the GDR release is the ability to suppress warnings at the file level. Just to be very clear, this is suppression of build level warnings, not of static code analysis or deployment warnings! Imagine Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:28 PM by gertd | 6 Comments
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Two more languages released

Yesterday we released two more languages of the Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition GDR release, Simplified Chinese and French in addition to the six languages we released on December 19th 2008. Chinese (Simplified) (zh-CN) http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/2/2223ECF9-7485-4A0B-8928-C881C876D261/Readme.mht Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 2:57 PM by gertd | 1 Comments
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