1. Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects
Randy Knight

2. 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

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

4. 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?

5. 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

6. Requirements
Visual Studio 2010 Editions

7. Project Types

8. Demo

9. Data Features
Schema Comparison
Data Compare
T-SQL Editor

10. Demo

11. 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

12. Demo

13. 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 …

14. Resources MSDN Forums SQL Server Central Forums Twitter
VS Team System > DB Development Tools
SQL Server Central Forums
Twitter
#sqlhelp, #sqlpass #sqlblog #sqlsat
@randy_knight

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