VSTE for DB Professionals Team Blog

Farewell!

tsdatabl — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:47:00 GMT

Team Data has decided it was most effective for us to engage with the community through our individual team member blogs. Below are the currently active blogs:

Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager

Matt Nunn, Product Manager

Gert Drapers, Development Manager

Thomas Murphy, Group Program Manager

Richard Waymire, PM Architect

Sachin Rekhi, Program Manager

So farewell from the Team Blog! And please check us out at the above links...

Database Unit Testing

tsdatabl — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:17:00 GMT

The ability to create database unit tests within Visual Studio is one of the exciting features of VSTE for DB Professionals. I work in Test on this product. But in previous jobs when I have had to maintain databases and database applications, how I could have used this product. The number of times I might find that someone had changed the stored procedure and broken the application, or renamed a field and broken the stored procedure. If I could just have run unit tests on my stored procedures on a nightly basis and made sure that all was still running correctly, that would have been great. Or if it wasn't I would have known right away. Now you can!!

Another benefit of the database unit testing feature is that it integrates into the Team Test structure if you already have Team Test or Team Suite with Visual Studio. So you can run your unit tests for your code and your database unit tests over night to check that your whole application has not regressed. Just add database unit tests to an existing or new test project. The database unit tests can be run from the test view or from Test Manager just like any existing unit tests. So now you can have a list that combines both and run that overnight from the command line using mstest. This is neat.

Or if you just have Visual Studio Pro and want database unit tests you can do that too. Just create your database unit tests and run them from the test view or the command line using mstest.

Meet our team bloggers

tsdatabl — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:31:00 GMT

I just added a section to the team blog for each of the team members that are maintaining their own blog. You'll find them on the bottom left corner of this page.

I thought I would take this moment to quickly introduce each of these individuals and point you toward their blog:

Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager
Matt Nunn, Product Manager
Gert Drapers, Development Manager
Thomas Murphy, Group Program Manager
Richard Waymire, PM Architect
Sachin Rekhi, Program Manager

Sachin Rekhi, Program Manager

An exciting announcement at Tech Ed

tsdatabl — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:19:00 GMT

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend Tech Ed and help make everyone aware of this amazing product we have been building for the last year. And the response we got was nothing less than amazing. Beyond the expected buzz around the product, some people even had an emotional reaction to it.

Here are just some of the things I heard...

One person wanted to meet the developers of the rename refactoring tool and just hug them to thank them for building the feature!
Another person wrote about how being able to create a unit test for a stored procedure, just like you can with application code, made them all giggly inside...
And yet another person had just written a long article on best practices surrounding database unit testing and commented how there article was deprecated by a right-mouse click (it's now THAT easy to create a unit test).

I hope to continue to hear such feedback on the product. Keep sending it our way!

Sachin Rekhi, Program Manager, Team Edition for Database Professionals

CTP3 Download is available!

tsdatabl — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:02:00 GMT

The CTP3 Download of VSTE for DB Professionals is available here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/a/3/1a32ea84-11a3-4adf-953e-7a65b9831f5a/VSDATAD1.img

Regards,

-Tom Smith

SDE\T - VSTE for DB Pros.