Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals

"Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals delivers a market-shifting database development product designed to manage database change, improve software quality through database testing and bring the benefits of Visual Studio Team System and life cycle development to the database professional.
 
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• Reduce the risk involved with changing database schema by comparing the source controlled version against test and production systems and automating the creation of change scripts.

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• Create full unit tests for your database schema that can be run independently or in combination with Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite to provide a comprehensive set of tests for the application and database tiers.
• Author tests in either T-SQL or managed code with extensible unit test functionality and a new test editor.

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Very nice. Development DBA’s that I’ve worked with (and when I have my DBA hat on) kind of feel left out of the development process. Their tools and such have usually been very sperate from the main stream development process/tool suite.

It’s cool to see MS fill this hole with a new VS role (hey, that rhymes ;)

I’m also very interested to see how the testing is integrated. That’s the feature that really has me excited...

(via Dave Bost - Visual Studio Team System Adds Another Role)

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