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Pre and Post Deployment Events

gertd — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:33:39 GMT

Visual Studio makes it relatively easy to hook in to pre and post build events, by using the Project properties tab named Build Events. However when using Database Projects (.dbproj) you more often need to do something at deployment time. The good news...(read more)

Pre-Deployment Scripts

gertd — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:48:00 GMT

Pre-deployment script do not change the outcome of deployments! The above statements is something that most users do not realize when using pre-deployment scripts. Since the pre-deployment script is included in to the deployment script, it therefore by...(read more)

NESQL Presentation – Declarative Database Development

gertd — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:57:03 GMT

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)

MyDevConnections Volume 2 issue 1

gertd — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:26:43 GMT

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)

SqlCmdVars.exe

gertd — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:46:53 GMT

This post announces the availability of a small helper utility that will allow you to maintain your database.sqlcmdvars files from a command line tool. Description: What is the scenario? If you are using vsdbcmd.exe to deploy your schema, you include...(read more)

VSDB 2008 Version Numbers

gertd — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:37:42 GMT

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)

VSDBCMD.EXE Return Codes

gertd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:09:31 GMT

Quick one based on a forum question where somebody asked how to detect if VSDBCMD.EXE failed or succeeded inside a batch file. VSDBCMD.EXE does not return a very elaborate amount of information, there are just two return values 0 and 1, where zero indicates...(read more)

Agile Database Techniques

gertd — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:16:52 GMT

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)

Assigning MSBuild Properties to SQLCMD Variables

gertd — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:21:44 GMT

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)

DBSchema file for SQL LiteSpeed XP’s

gertd — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:10:38 GMT

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)

System Objects in TEMPDB

gertd — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:17:09 GMT

Today a user send me a question how to resolve reference of system objects inside tempdb? My first thought was this should get resolved by loading the master.dbschema file. However this did not resolve the issue, so time to ask for an example, which slightly...(read more)

Declarative Database Development

gertd — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:58:36 GMT

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)

RTM of VSDB 2008 GDR R2

gertd — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:32:12 GMT

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)

Release Candidate of GDR QFE

gertd — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:31:16 GMT

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)

SQL Connections Slides and Demo Posted

gertd — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:55:54 GMT

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)