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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 projects a lot in that time and have come up with Read More... Posted Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:58 PM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: Datadude, 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 | 2 Comments Filed under: sql server, Datadude, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• Responses to SSDT questions

  My recent article Get to Know SQL Server 2012's SQL Server Data Tools prompted two questions to come to me via email and in the interests of sharing knowledge via search engines I thought I would answer them here rather than by simply replying by email Read More... Posted Friday, January 11, 2013 11:22 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: sql server, Datadude, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT

• SQL Server Data Tools does support required variables

  Over the past few years of using datadude (aka DBPro aka Visual Studio Database Projects) I have fallen prey to a peculiar little nuance – if you forget to supply a value for a sqlcmd variable then it will simply use a default and often that is not the Read More... Posted Sunday, February 12, 2012 12:58 PM by jamiet | 9 Comments Filed under: sql server, Datadude, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT, sqlpackage.exe