Musings on SQL Server Manageability

I've changed jobs

2007-06-26T23:44:00Z

I've moved back to my old hunting ground, SQL Server's Management Platform Team. For information about DataDude, you should see Gert or Cameron's blogs (http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd or http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons).

Service Release 1 is going public

2007-03-23T02:14:00Z

Gert's posted info about the service release in his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2007/03/22/announcing-service-release-1.aspx.

Mairead is looking for feedback on visual designer possibilities

2007-03-21T19:44:00Z

She's got a blog entry at

http://blogs.msdn.com/mairead/archive/2007/03/16/visual-designers-in-database-professionals.aspx and is looking to hear what kind of visual designers you'd like to see in a future release of db pro..... If you have thoughts/opinions to share please let her know!

-R

Data Generation and Unit Testing

2007-03-20T19:56:00Z

I'm starting to write up our next generation scenarios for unit testing and data generation. We have some feedback, but anything more you'd like to add please email me directly.

Do you use Database Diagrams?

2007-02-21T21:26:00Z

If so you should read and give feedback on this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/mairead/archive/2007/02/21/do-you-use-database-diagrams.aspx

New MSDN Team chat this Wednesday

2007-02-06T20:02:00Z

Visual Studio Team System Chat – This Wed

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP).

Join the chat on Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time.

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Security Whitepaper finally officially published

2007-01-18T02:00:00Z

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264457(vs.80).aspx is the link....

Team Chat coming up Feb. 7th

2007-01-15T20:30:00Z

Visual Studio Team System Chat - Wed, Feb 7th

Join the chat on Wednesday, February 7^th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time.

Back to work and planning V2

2007-01-09T20:07:00Z

I'm back after a long winter break....

We're deep into planning v2 now, so if you have feature requests, ideas, etc. you can send them to me at rwaymi@microsoft.com.

Changes to the 1.0 Trial download

2007-01-09T20:06:00Z

We recently made some changes to the download of the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Add-on to try to clear up some initial confusion customers were reporting. This is the add-on which installs into Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite edition and provides the additional functionality provided by Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. Here is a quick list of the changes, hopefully this simplifies things a bit:

Add-on no longer called a "Trial" - The add-on can be used in a trial mode when installed with the Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite 180-day Trial Edition. When running in this mode you will get all of the Team Suite and Database Professionals functionality, and both of these solutions will stop working when your trial time period expires. However, if you own a "full" (non-trial) edition of Team Suite then this add-on will not expire since you are entitled to receive the Database Professionals functionality for free as a benefit of owning Team Suite edition. Hence it didn't really make sense to name this add-on a "Trial" by default when it can in fact be installed as a full add-on provided that you have an appropriate license to Team Suite.

.EXE and .ISO available - Previously we chose to offer only a .ISO file for download, which required you to either mount that image or use a CD burning program to create media. We are still offering an .ISO file, but we are now also providing a self-extracting archive file (the .EXE) which you can download and quickly run to get started.

Documentation Clarification - Remember that this add-on does not provide the Team Edition for Database Professionals documentation. To get the documentation, you can either view it online or you can download and install a newer version of the MSDN Library which includes this documentation. At the time of my blog post, the latest version is available here.

Hopefully those changes clear up some confusion - but if you still have questions please visit the Team Edition for Database Professionals Forum.

MSDN Launch events

2006-12-12T17:09:00Z

I'm speaking this morning at the New York City MSDN Launch event, then doing Raleigh/Durham on Thursday.... Hopefully I'll meet some of you reading this while on the road!

Security Whitepaper

2006-12-12T17:08:00Z

Attaching the right copy of the paper this time. Thanks Jamie for reading it! Will post the production link when it's available.

Bits are available now for version 1.0!!!

2006-12-07T23:15:00Z

The readme.htm file is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E1E22BEC-A937-4E09-A16A-2FD69D711053&displaylang=en

The trial edition download is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7de00386-893d-4142-a778-992b69d482ad&displaylang=en

Or you can get the trial bits directly at http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/7/6/f76437c4-6e3d-4618-94c9-3bff8141bee0/VSTSDBTR.img

If you are an MSDN subscriber log in and you'll see DB Pro as an available download!

DB Pro Released to Manufacturing

2006-12-04T20:54:00Z

We made it! Rather than repeat a bunch of info, I'm going to link you to Matt Nunn's blog entry.

http://blogs.msdn.com/mattnunn/archive/2006/12/04/we-have-rtm-d-visual-studio-2005-team-edition-for-database-professionals-releases-to-manufacturing.aspx

Now, on to V2. We've gotten some great feedback already, keep it coming!

Now that we're almost done...

2006-11-30T21:39:00Z

We should be shipping VERY soon (maybe even today). The weather hasn't helped here... :-)

So now we're figuring out what to do with the next couple releases. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see different, some new feature area, or improvements then please send them to me!