Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects Randy Knight

Randy Knight MCITP, MCDBA, MCTS, MCSE … 20 Years experience with Microsoft technology, focusing on SQL Server for the last 14. Owner and Principal Consultant, SQL Solutions Group randy@sqlsolutionsgroup.com

Objectives The Challenge Visual Studio 2010 Requirements Review Project Types Work with Database Projects Work with Data Features Issues and Challenges

The Challenge Unlike Source Code, Databases are full of Data! Functions, Stored Procedures, Some Views can be treated the same as code Tables, Indices, Indexed Views Cannot Have to deploy deltas / incremental changes Source Control should be able to re-create DB from scratch How do we handle this?

Solutions No DB Source Control at all Manage object-level scripts in source control Manual deployment script Deployment scripts from RedGate, ApexSQL, etc. Issues Extremely labor intensive Error Prone Doesn’t work the same way as code deployments

Requirements Visual Studio 2010 Editions

Project Types

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Data Features Schema Comparison Data Compare T-SQL Editor

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Issues and Challenges References Security Objects on Remote Servers Other Database Projects .dbschema files master, msdb Project  Properties  References Can’t tell you how many times this has gotten me Security Logins/Users/Roles can be a mess Just do DB Roles and Permissions Objects on Remote Servers Especially other DBMS’s

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What’s Missing Configuration / Lookup Data Management Pre/Post Deployment Scripts Use a “Gold” database and use Data Compare to Generate Scripts XML Files CSV Files Native BCP …

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