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• Learn from me about SSDT in London, February 2015

  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 number of questions that are getting asked about it Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2014 2:24 PM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• Want a headless build server for SSDT without installing Visual Studio? You’re out of luck!

  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 (SSDT) project incorporates a build process that will Read More... Posted Friday, August 08, 2014 12:22 PM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: Continuous Integration, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• 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 code analysis suppressions that reference that file Read More... Posted Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:42 PM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• 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 number of questions that are getting asked about it Read More... Posted Thursday, September 05, 2013 9:01 AM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• 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 inform people of it. I’ve built a very simple SSDT project Read More... Posted Monday, July 01, 2013 8:54 AM by jamiet | 15 Comments Filed under: sql server, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• 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 Management Studio (SSMS) as well by the way: One thing Read More... Posted Monday, April 22, 2013 11:33 PM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• 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 as I stumbled upon SSDT’s database drift detection Read More... Posted Thursday, April 04, 2013 11:31 AM by jamiet | 8 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT, Database Drift

• 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 stuff for building SSIS/SSAS/SSRS solutions (this is Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 03, 2013 9:49 AM by jamiet | 6 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• 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 projects a lot in that time and have come up with Read More... Posted Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:58 PM by jamiet | 14 Comments Filed under: Datadude, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• 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 Development experience that the SSDT team have attempted Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:28 PM by jamiet | 14 Comments Filed under: sql server, Visual Studio, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT, SQL Server Object Explorer, SSOX

• 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 , Big Bang Data Company , Purple Frog Systems , Read More... Posted Sunday, March 10, 2013 3:24 PM by jamiet | 17 Comments Filed under: sql server, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• 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 in March 2012 there have been releases in September Read More... Posted Friday, February 08, 2013 10:15 PM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: sql server, Datadude, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• 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 at http://www.devproconnections.com/ . The article Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:52 AM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: video, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• Continuous deployment of SSDT database projects to Windows Azure using Team Foundation Service

  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 a live test server that everyone can look at. A Read More... Posted Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:07 PM by jamiet | 23 Comments Filed under: SQL Azure, Continuous Integration, TFS, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT, Windows Azure, Windows Azure SQL Database

• 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 it a Visual Studio shell incorporating project templates Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2013 11:05 PM by jamiet | 10 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT