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Managing Database Changes with Visual Studio & SSDT

@JimWooleyhttp://www.ThinqLinq.com

Consultant

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Managing Schema Changes doesn’t have to be like this…

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Visual Studio Database Tools (DataDude)

Declarative Model

Definitions

Schema Compare for

change scriptsStatic Analysis

Refactoring and advanced

toolingIntellisense Data Compare

Data Generation

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SSDT

Declarative Model

Definitions

Schema Compare for

change scriptsStatic Analysis

Refactoring and advanced

toolingIntellisense Designers

Combined Table Assets

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Source Control Integration

Manage Change History

Branch by feature

Build from Main

Associate changes with work items

Annotate (Blame)

Continuous Integration

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SSDT (Juneau) Supported Platforms

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Further Information

MSDN• http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdt/threads

Team blog • http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssdt/

Gert Drapers• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gertd/

Download the latest SSDT version• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/tools.aspx

MSDN Magazine Sept 2011• The "Juneau" Database Project

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Jim Wooley@jimwooley

http://www.ThinqLinq.com

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