Camron informs us that CTP6 of Visual Studio 2005 Team System Edition for Database Professionals (aka “Data Dude”) is available for download.
There have been a number of enhancements made between CTP5 and CTP6 including…
- Full SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 Object Support
- Inline Constraints
- Team Build Support
- Selective Database Project Imports
- Etc…
Not to mention the standard stability and performance enhancements. You can download CTP6 from here.
Speaking of Data Dude, don’t forget to check out the upcoming launch events coming to a city near you.
Technorati tags: vsts, team system, data dude
Are you as excited about the new Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (whew!) as I am??? We are getting ready to host a number of launch events across the country starting November 30th. Come out and hear how VSTS-DB Pro (or “Data Dude”) can help you take control of your database throughout it’s lifecycle as well an introduction to the tools that will allow you to include testing methodoligies in at the database level.
You can catch me at the launch events taking place in Milwaukee on December 6th and Chicago on December 12th. To find a city launch nearest you, check out http://teams-deliver.com.
Do you want to help drive product direction? The team behind Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (phew!) or the product affectionatly known as “Data Dude” is looking for 15-mins of your time to help them nail down feature requests for the upcoming release. So… please take the time to fill out this survey and please hurry as the survey closes on Oct. 13th.
Thank you for your support!
Tags: Team System, Data Dude
VSTS has always been about creating a tool to support the individual roles of a software development project. Today,VSTS supports features for Architects, Developers and Testers. Today, Microsoft announced the additon of another team role to the VSTS product lineup – Database Professional.
With the Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals, DBA’s and database developers can now enjoy the benfits of what Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server bring to Application Lifecycle Mangement. Attendees of this year’s TechEd conference in Boston will be able to get there hands on a copy of the CTP with download availability following shortly thereafter. Here’s a clipping of some of the features included:
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The new Visual Studio Database Project allows you to import your database schema and place it under source control. When the time comes to deploy schema changes the new project system allows you to quickly build update scripts or packages and then provides a mechanism to deploy them to the database of our choice
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Rename Refactoring allows you to easily rename any object in your database and be assured that all references to that object will be renamed to correspond to the change
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A New T-SQL editor allows you to be more productive when writing T-SQL code from within Visual Studio including support for parallel execution of queries and viewing of execution plans
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SchemaCompare allows you to quickly compare the schema of two databases (or your source controlled project and a database) and script updates to bring the database schemas into sync
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DataCompare allows you to quickly compare two databases and script updates to bring the data in these databases into sync
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The Database Unit Testing infrastructure allows you to create database unit tests using T-SQL or managed code
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DataGenerator lets you create data generation plans that produce repeatable sets of meaningful data based upon your existing production databases that can be deployed to a database prior to running unit tests thus ensuring consistent test results
Many customers ask me what’s a best practice for moving schemea changes through the application promotion model. I can’t wait to see how the Database Professional edition can help faciliate this complicated process. Sounds like a whitepaper in the making.
I would like to thank all of those who attended my webcast on Team Foundation Version Control on April 18th. We had a great turnout and a lot of great questions. As promised, here are the slides. Also, I’ve included the resources called out (and some that weren’t) during the presentation to find out more information on Team System and Team Foundation Server. Keep an eye on this blog or subscribe to MSDN Flash to find out about upcoming developer events and webcasts we’re planning.
Slide deck: TFSVersionControl.zip
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Whitepapers:
Blogs:
Dave Bost is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft and co-host of the Thirsty Developer Podcast.
