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Tech*Ed Online - Visual Studio Team System Panel - Meet the Team

gertd — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:16:12 GMT

This panel discussion was recorded at Tech*Ed this week, it is a panel discussion about Visual Studio Team System at large. Participants Brian Harry (Technical Fellow of Team Foundation Server), Neelesh Kamkolkar (Senior Product Manager VSTS Test Edition), Peter Provost (Program Manager VSTS Architect Edition), Habib Heydarian (Lead Program Manager VSTS Developer Edition), Norman Guadagno (Director of VSTS Marketing) and myself discuss futures and strategy of Visual Studio Team System.

Check it out,
-GertD

DataDude Goes Multi-Platform

gertd — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:06:59 GMT

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 my previous blog posts, we are changing the underlying architecture of the VSTS Database Edition product, to be provider based. This change enables other vendors or 3rd parties, by creating a Database Schema Provider (DSP), to start managing and deploying their schemas from inside Visual Studio Team System "Rosario" using the same database project system and user experience we currently have in place to manage and deploy your SQL Server schemas.

One of the vendors we have been working with from the start to validate the provider and extensibility model is IBM and yesterday was the first time we could publicly show the results of this collaboration.

As you can read in the overall Tech Ed press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jun08/06-03TechEdDevPR.mspx

An alliance with IBM that will further simplify application development for enterprise teams working in heterogeneous environments. IBM and Microsoft have agreed to work together to integrate IBM DB2 database access with Visual Studio Team System Database Edition.

This events marks a significant milestone for the product, and is the enabling technology to include other data store in to the application life cycle.

-GertD

Tech·Ed 2008 Developers

gertd — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:10:33 GMT

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 and hands-on lab, all covering Visual Studio Team System Database Edition.

It all starts in BillG his keynote, where Brian Harry will show some of the partner work we have been involved in, stay tuned for more details on that!

Besides all the sessions you will be able to talk to the team members 1-1 on the booth. We have a presence in the Visual Studio Team System area and we are also present on the SQL Server booth to demonstrate the integration with SQL Server 2008.

We hope to see you at Tech·Ed,

-GertD

Session list:

Date	Session Title
Tuesday, June 3 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM	DVP310 Agile Database Development (level 300)
Tuesday, June 3 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM	TLA310 End-to-End Database Development Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (level 300)
Thursday, June 5 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM	DAT326 Supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 within Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Edition (level 300)
Thursday, June 5 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM	DAT01-TLC Managing Database References in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (level 400)
Thursday, June 5 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	TEO Panel _25 Testing the SQL Database (panel discussion)
Thursday, June 5 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM	DAT02-TLC Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition: Integrating Database Developers in Your Software Management Life Cycle (level 200)
Friday, June 6 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, S230 A	TLA320 The Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Project Ecosystem: Integrating ALM and Database Tools via Extensibility (level 300)
Friday, June 6 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM	DAT03-TLC Customization of Data Generation Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (level 400)

Sessions details:

DVP310 Agile Database Development (level 300)

Tuesday, June 3 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM, S330 C

Speaker(s): Richard Hundhausen

Session Type: Breakout Session

Agile remains a popular buzzword these days. Some teams strive to become more agile, while others tend to avoid it. Where do you weigh in? Regardless, it's not something that has traditionally been applicable to SQL Server database development, until recently. With the proper configuration and use of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server and the Database Editions tools, it is possible to satisfy your clients' changing needs should they extend to the database.

TLA310 End-to-End Database Development Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (level 300)

Tuesday, June 3 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, S330 A

Speaker(s): Mairead O'Donovan

Session Type: Breakout Session

The Database Edition of Visual Studio Team System 2008 provides a comprehensive set of tools and features that integrates the Database Development Lifecycle into the overall Application Development Lifecycle. In this session, we cover the principles that tie the Database Development model into the larger ALM, and take a tour through the features of the Database Edition with an emphasis on how each leg of the Lifecycle is supported by Database-specific tools and features. Special attention is paid to the enhancements added as part of the VSTS 2008 release, as well as the extended functionality added when you install the optional Database Edition Power Tools. This session is a mix of theory and practice, with live demonstrations of the fundamental features found at each level of the Database Development Lifecycle.

DAT326 Supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 within Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Edition (level 300)

Thursday, June 5 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, S230 E (DEV)

Speaker(s): Gert Drapers, Jamie Laflen

Session Type: Breakout Session

One of the most anticipated aspects of the upcoming Database Edition for Visual Studio Team System release, code name "Rosario", is the support for SQL Server 2008. This session covers how the new architecture, features, and functionality of the new Visual Studio Team System Database Edition version will enable the support of SQL Server 2008 new data types, new syntax and other functionality. In addition, this session provides an overview of all the new functionality which applies to SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008.

DAT01-TLC Managing Database References in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (level 400)

Thursday, June 5 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, Green Theater 1

Speaker(s): Gert Drapers, Jamie Laflen

Session Type: Interactive Theaters

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition enhances the ability of the Database Project to understand and manage database references across multiple databases from within a single project, or across several projects. This chalk talk focuses on how best to best manage three- and four-part name references inside a Visual Studio Team System Database Edition project.

TEO Panel _25 Testing the SQL Database (panel discussion)

Thursday, June 5 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker(s): Gert Drapers, Jamie Laflen, Adam Machanic, David Reed, John Welch

Session Type: TechEd Online Sessions

It goes almost without saying that testing is a core aspect of any properly structured software development effort. Yet when it comes to the database layer, we often see developers shy away from a proper testing regimen. The prevailing attitude is often that database testing is either not necessary or simply too difficult to properly accomplish. But the truth is, database testing is just as doable, and certainly just as valuable, as testing of any other layer. In this panel we will discuss why you want to test your database, and the various types of database testing that you should be doing as you develop and deploy your application. We will cover testing scenarios to handle functionality, regression, performance, scalability, and other key metrics as they relate to your database infrastructure. Without testing, your database's runtime behaviors are effectively an unknown. Come to this panel to learn how not to leave things to chance.

DAT02-TLC Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition: Integrating Database Developers in Your Software Management Life Cycle (level 200)

Thursday, June 5 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, Green Theater 1

Speaker(s): Brian Randell

Session Type: Interactive Theaters

For many applications, the database is the foundation. Yet for many teams, the “database professional” has limped along without the tools necessary to do their job. Managing database change and evolution is critical to successful software projects. In this session, learn how Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals can help you integrate database design, creation, and evolution in your overall software development life cycle using the entire Team System. Learn how the product integrates with other team editions and team members including features such as source code control, work item tracking, test case management, and build.

TLA320 The Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Project Ecosystem: Integrating ALM and Database Tools via Extensibility (level 300)

Friday, June 6 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, S230 A

Speaker(s): Gert Drapers, Brent Gross (IBM Corp.)

Session Type: Breakout Session

Discover how Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario": Database Edition empowers developers to actively participate in, and bring agility to, the database development process. If you work with databases, you will want see how the features offered by the latest addition to Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) integrate the database developer into the Application Development Lifecycle. This exciting product is changing the way database developers work with databases forever, by moving the "One Version of the Truth" for database schema from the production server into source control. This presentation focuses on extending the "Rosario" release of Database Edition to enable non SQL Server databases to plug into the VSTS Database Edition platform. Now database developers can manage their database schema changes for Microsoft SQL Server databases as well as non SQL Server databases within the same environment. In addition to enabling an extension platform for non SQL Server databases, learn also how the Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario": Database Edition has enabled a database development tools extensibility platform for third-party companies to plug in additional database development tools into the VSTS Database Edition product.

DAT03-TLC Customization of Data Generation Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (level 400)

Friday, June 6 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, Green Theater 1

Speaker(s): Jamie Laflen

Session Type: Interactive Theaters

Are the data generators that ship with Visual Studio not meeting your needs? Do you need to generate data from outside the development environment? This talk drills into making the most of the 2008 data generation API to answer these and other questions.

The Data Dude Meets Team Build

gertd — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:54:17 GMT

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.

If you are interested in this particular subject also be sure to check out the Buck Hodges his blog post, written by Jon Liperi, titled: "VSTS 2005 and 2008: Building Database Projects with Team Build"

-GertD

VSDBPro Tech*Ed 2007 Sessions Available Online

gertd — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:15:41 GMT

The VSDBPro sessions that we presented at Tech*Ed 2007 this June are now available online. You can watch the recorded sessions online (slides and demos with audio feed) or download the WMV and/or PPT files for offline consumption.

DAT317: Database Schema Versioning: How to Use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals and Team Foundation Server to Version and Deploy Your Databases

Gert Drapers
Come hear how Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals is changing the way in which Databases are being managed. This session covers how to use the Source Control features of Team Foundation Server to control the versioning of your database schema, how to create Database deployment packages that reflect a specified version, and how you can use Team Build to manage deployment and integration in an enterprise environment.
View Recording | Download Presentation

DEV337: End-to-End Database Development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

Duncan Davenport
Discover how Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals empowers developers to actively participate in, and bring agility to, the database development process. If you work with databases then you will want see how the features offered by the latest addition to Visual Studio Team System integrate the database developer into the Application Development Lifecycle. In this presentation, learn how this exciting new product is changing the way you work with databases forever, by moving the "One Version of the Truth" for database schema from the production server into source control. This presentation focuses on Managing Change to databases through integrated change management, database unit testing and sophisticated comparison tools.
View Recording | Download Presentation

DEV301: Integrating the Database into the Application Lifecycle Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals

Duncan Davenport
Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals provides a new set of tools for working with databases throughout the development process and beyond. But just having tools is not enough. In order to reap the benefits of this new way of working with databases, you also need to embrace a new process for the way you do the work. In this session, we discuss the new MSF Agile and CMMI processes and show how with a combination of the new Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals tools and the adoption of slightly new processes, you can see significant benefits both in productivity and quality.
View Recording | Download Presentation

All other Visual Studio Team System presentations are available here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb676080.aspx

-GertD

2-Day DataDude Workshop

gertd — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:42:32 GMT

On June 11 and 12, I will be giving a 2-day Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals workshop in the Netherlands. The events will be hosted by Class-A, see Anko Duizer his blog post announcing the event.

The agenda for the 2-day workshop looks like this:

Architecture Overview
1. Parsing and Interpreting Schema Objects
2. The role of the Design Validation Database
Setup
1. System requirements
2. Installing Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
Creating a database projects
1. Understanding project settings
2. Importing a schema
3. Importing scripts
4. Pre and Post Deployment Scripts
5. Examining the physical project structure
Database Schema Versioning
1. Adding the project to Source Code Control
2. Using SCC version labeling
3. Database and object version stamping
4. Validating and comparing schema objects
Building database projects
1. Building database projects
2. Understanding the difference based build engine
3. Building from the command line using MSBuild
4. Using TeamBuild
Changing Schema Objects
1. Adding, updating and deleting schema objects
2. Using refactoring
3. Using external tools to update your schema
4. Comparing the project
5. Propagating external schema changes in to the project
6. Creating your own templates
Deploying database projects
1. Deploying database projects
2. Deploying from the command line using MSBuild
3. Pre-processing build scripts
4. Deployed using other SQL execution engines
Testing Databases
1. Creating a Database Unit Test project
2. Creating Unit Tests
  1. Test initialization
  2. T-SQL unit tests
  3. .NET unit tests
  4. Test validation
3. Creating Test Data
  1. Designing the test data
  2. Populating test data
4. Executing unit tests as part of TeamBuild
5. Unit testing specials
  1. Negative testing
  2. Using transactions
  3. Data Driven Testing
MSF integration
1. Installing the MSF extensions
2. Database specific roles, work streams and items
Customizing and extending the system
1. Creating data generators
2. Creating data distributions
3. Creating test conditions
4. Deploying extensions
5. Using the schema API

Each subject will be accompanied with hands-on labs and exercises that you will perform on your own virtual Team Foundation installation.

-GertD

Home of the Data Dude : TechEd

Tech*Ed Online - Visual Studio Team System Panel - Meet the Team

DataDude Goes Multi-Platform

Tech&#183;Ed 2008 Developers

Session list:

Sessions details:

DVP310 Agile Database Development (level 300)

TLA310 End-to-End Database Development Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (level 300)

DAT326 Supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 within Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Edition (level 300)

DAT01-TLC Managing Database References in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (level 400)

TEO Panel _25 Testing the SQL Database (panel discussion)

DAT02-TLC Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition: Integrating Database Developers in Your Software Management Life Cycle (level 200)

TLA320 The Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Project Ecosystem: Integrating ALM and Database Tools via Extensibility (level 300)

DAT03-TLC Customization of Data Generation Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (level 400)

The Data Dude Meets Team Build

VSDBPro Tech*Ed 2007 Sessions Available Online

2-Day DataDude Workshop

Tech·Ed 2008 Developers