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More SSDT naming confusion
I have blogged previously at SSDT – What’s in a name? about the naming confusion that Microsoft have created by their inconsistent use of the term “SQL Server Data Tools” (SSDT) in SQL Server 2012. Is...
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Continuous deployment of SSDT database projects to Windows Azure using Team...
Continuous deployment is described by Wikipedia as:Most CI systems allow the running of scripts after a build finishes. In most situations, it is possible to write a script to deploy the application to...
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Video accompanying my SSDT article is now available
A couple of weeks ago in Get to Know SQL Server 2012's SQL Server Data Tools [article published] I stated that an article that I wrote about SSDT had been published and was available for reading online...
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Which version of SSDT Database Projects do I have installed?
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is released on a very regular cadence (note that I’m talking about the database projects part of SSDT, this is nothing to do with SSIS/SSAS/SSRS). Since the first release...
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SSDT database projects were not always going to output T-SQL…
Interesting the stuff you pick up from reading forums…“The BATCH seperators [in SSDT deployment scripts] are used to provide scoping when resolving object shapes. SSDT or VSDB scripts for that matter...
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Deployment of client-specific database code using SSDT
Yesterday I attended SQL Saturday 194 in Exeter for which many people deserve credit but especially the organisers Jonathan Allen& Annette Allen and the sponsors Fusion-IO, Confio Software, Nexus,...
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Connected development in SSDT versus SSMS
When you install the database projects template of SSDT you get SQL Server Object Explorer (SSOX) installed as well. SSOX is a pane within Visual Studio and is the main enabler of the Connected...
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Considerations when starting a new SSDT database project
As you may have realised from much of my blogging over the past year or so I’m an advocate of using SSDT database projects for building database solutions on SQL Server. I have been using SSDT database...
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SSDT naming confusion cleared up. Somewhat.
In March 2012 I published SSDT - What's in a name? where I lamented the mistakes that Microsoft made in the naming of SQL Server Data Tools.…official documentation stating that SSDT includes all the...
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Detecting Database Drift using SSDT
One of the nice things about doing user group presentations is that when you’re putting the presentation together you invariably learn about features that were previously unbeknown to you; so it proved...
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Creating your own SQL snippets in SSDT
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) has a neat feature where you can add snippets into your scripts via the right-click context menu:I’m finding it very useful indeed. The same feature exists in SQL Server...
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June 2013 release of SSDT contains a minor bug that you should be aware of
I have discovered what seems, to me, like a bug in the June 2013 release of SSDT and given the problems that it created yesterday on my current gig I thought it prudent to write this blog post to...
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Learn from me about SSDT in London, March 2014
Microsoft released SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) along with SQL Server 2012 in the Spring of 2012. Since then I’ve noticed an upward tick in both the number of organisations that are using SSDT and the...
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SSDT gotcha – Moving a file erases code analysis suppressions
I discovered a little wrinkle in SSDT today that is worth knowing about if you are managing your database schemas using SSDT. In short, if a file is moved to a different folder in the project then any...
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Don’t learn SSDT, learn about your databases instead
Last Thursday I presented my session “Introduction to SSDT” at the SQL Supper event held at the offices of 7 Digital (loved the samosas, guys). I did my usual spiel, tour of the IDE, connected...
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Schema Compare or Publish [SSDT]
Yesterday on Twitter Ryan Desmond asked Is there a good read for #SSDT regarding deploying changes via schema compare vs solution deployment?I don’t know of any article that covers this so in this blog...
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Dacpac braindump - What is a dacpac?
In this week’s earlier blog post First release of my own personal T-SQL code library on Github I talked of how one could use a dacpac to distribute a bunch of code to different servers. Upon reading...
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SSDT gets some small enhancements for SQL Server 2014
Release-to-manufacturing of SQL Server 2014 was announced today and with it comes some welcome news about some small enhancements to SSDT:The SSDT team has been heads down getting our SQL Server 2014...
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Want a headless build server for SSDT without installing Visual Studio?...
An issue that regularly seems to rear its head on my travels is that of headless build servers for SSDT. What does that mean exactly? Let me give you my interpretation of it.A SQL Server Data Tools...
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Kill all the project files!
Like many folks I’m a keen podcast listener and yesterday my commute was filled by listening to Scott Hunter being interviewed on .Net Rocks about the next version of ASP.Net. One thing Scott said...
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