Musing on Database Development : Database Development

Let us know how you use database diagrams

MattNunn — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:05:00 GMT

Mairead from the Data Dude product team has a post looking for feedback on database diagram usage. If you want to help us build a better product andwold like to comment on our usage then please reply to Mairead's posting

http://blogs.msdn.com/mairead/archive/2007/02/21/do-you-use-database-diagrams.aspx

Here's another case study on DB Pro - ConfigureSoft

MattNunn — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:04:00 GMT

See how ConfigureSoft used Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals and Team Foundation Server to cut development time in half

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=201031

Launch Videos from PASS in Seattle

MattNunn — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:34:00 GMT

Wanted to share a couple of videos from the launch of Data Dude at PASS in Seattle bak in November. The guys from Solid Quality Learning posted these recently. This first is from the launch party and the second is an interview featuring Gert Drapers

Gulf Coast Seal Case Study on DB Pro

MattNunn — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:10:00 GMT

We have just posted a case study on Gulf Coast Seal and how they have been using DataDude, You can find the case study at http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=200529

Update... Jeff Lynch has also posted regarding this case stdy, which happens to be about his project. Read his comments here (http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch/archive/2007/01/10/Visual-Studio-Team-Edition-for-Database-Professionals_3A00_-Case-Study-Published_2100_.aspx)

Team Suite Owners small download and giving feedback

MattNunn — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:49:00 GMT

Wanted to mention a couple of things today...

Firstly, if you are an MSDN subscriber you may have seen the 2.9GB download for Data Dude. This is the full install with everything you need to run the product standalone. As Cameron points out in his blog if you already own Team Suite and you don't want to download 2.9GB of data then you can just download the 20Mb trail edition and on install it will see that you have a fully licensed version and install as a real product instead of a trial.

On another point, we still want to here from you about the product. If you have feedback on the product, are having any issues or just want to discuss the product with other data dudes then I recommend that you post anything you have to the forums

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals is now available for download....

MattNunn — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:24:00 GMT

As promised, it is december 7th and that means that Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals is now available for download....

You can download the trail from HERE

or if you are an MSDN Subscriber just login and you should see the bits available for download from your subscriptions page

We are done!!!! - Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Releases to Manufacturing

MattNunn — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:22:00 GMT

The Birth of Data Dude

Just in time for the holidays, I am extremely happy to announce that it is time to celebrate the RTM of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

On Friday 1st December 2006 the development team officially announced that Data Dude was done and was being released to manufacture. It should be available for download to MSDN subscribers on December 7th 2006 and generally available for purchase on January 1st 2007.

This release marks the end of the first leg in a very exciting journey to revolutionize the ALM space and finally bring the database into the application lifecycle.

From a team point of view this has been an exciting journey that began in the summer of 2005 when the Team Data product unit was formed to create Data Dude. Since then the team has worked tirelessly to deliver on the promise of managed database change and integration of the database into the development lifecycle. The team started coding in fall of 2005 and used the agile SCRUM methodology to ensure that they could have a release done in just 1 year.

Since the announcement in May 2006 that Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals would be releasing by the end of 2006, the team has released 7 CTP’s (Community Technology Previews) on approximately a 6 week schedule, 5 of which have been publically available. The team worked tirelessly to take all of the feedback from each of these CTP releases and role that feedback into the product. So if you sent any feedback to the team, thank you, and know that you too had a hand in shaping this great product.

The whole team is incredibly excited about this release and I personally want to thank everyone for all the hard work they have put in over the last year to make this product a reality.

It’s now time to relax for a bit over the holidays and then back in the New Year to start work on Data Dude V2…

Licensing of SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

MattNunn — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:52:00 GMT

In response to a post I just read (http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2006/10/18/VSTS4DBP_3A00_-CTP6-is-live.aspx) from Jamie Thomson I thought I should post a little more information regarding the teams decision to support SQL Server Express.

As Jamie points out, Gert Drapers post announcing CTP 6 did state that, moving forward, Data Dude would no longer use or support SQL Server Express as its underlying database. Jamie's concerns were around the fact that this might imply an additional cost as you are now required to have SQL Server Developer installed.

To clear this up, the decision was made to stop using SQL Express and to move to SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition in order to support the full range of enterprise features supported by SQL Server Enterprise (SQL Server Developer is essentially Enterprise Edition licensed only to be use for development and testing). SQL Server Express is a desktop database and does not support all the Enterprise functionality supported by Developer Edition. By using the Developer Edition rather than Express the team is able to supply support for all the functionality of SQL Server without requiring you to install another database to develop enterprise level functionality

There will be no charge for developer edition and it will ship in the box with every copy of Data Dude so this will not affect the cost of using DataDude.

Putting DataDude to Work

MattNunn — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:35:00 GMT

Just read a great blog post from Jeff Lynch who is using DataDude on a daily basis in his company. Take a look at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch/archive/2006/10/17/Visual-Studio-Team-Edition-for-Database-Professionals.aspx to read up on his experiences