1. Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects
Randy Knight
January 22, 2011

2. Randy Knight
MCITP
20 Years experience with Microsoft technology, focusing on SQL Server for the last 14.
Worked in a variety of settings, including six years as a Database Architect for match.com
Owner and Principal Consultant, SQL Solutions Group

3. Objectives Requirements Understand Project Types
Create Database Projects
Schema Comparison
Data Generation
What’s missing

4. Requirements Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate for the good stuff
Schema Compare
Data Compare
Etc.

5. Project Types SQL Server 2005 SQL Sever 2008 CLR Data Tier Application
Database
SQL Sever 2008
CLR VB C#
Data Tier Application

6. Server Project Logins Linked Servers Custom Error Messages
Server Triggers
Server Audits and Audit Specifications
Service Broker Endpoints

7. Database Project Database Level Objects Users Database Triggers
Assemblies
Users and Roles
Database Audits and Audit Specifications
Encryption Keys
Schemas

8. Database Project DDL Tables Views Stored Procedures Functions Triggers
User Defined Data Types
Service Broker Queues
Synonyms

9. Schema Comparisons The real power of these projects
We have been using Visual Studio to manage scripts for years
Visual Interdev anyone?
Schema Compare is where it gets cool

10. Data Generation What about Test Data? Data Generation Plans
Honor foreign key relationships
Use RegEx to create strings that make sense

11. Demo

12. Demo Create Projects from Scratch Create Project from Existing
Server
Database
Create Project from Existing
Schema Compare

13. What’s Missing
Configuration / Lookup Data
Pre/Post Deployment Scripts

14. Issues References One Project Per Database Security
master and msdb .dbschema files
One Project Per Database
Security
Logins/Users/Roles can be a mess
Just do DB Roles and Permissions
Server Level Objects
Objects on Remote Servers
Especially other DBMS’s

15. Resources MSDN Twitter
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Twitter
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#sqlblog
#sqlsat
@randy_knight

16. Thank You! http://speakerrate.com/speakers/11314 Randy Knight
SQL Solutions Group
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