Musing on Database Development : SQL Refactoring

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…