Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

Microsoft has announced a new SKU for Visual Studio, this one centered on database professionals. The current database tools in VS 2005 are really quite good, however, the additions planned for the new database professional targeted version sound cool. Especially neat is a refactoring tool that will allow you to rename objects and have the name change propagated throughout the database.

Several of the new features seem to compete with current third party offerings, including some tools I have found indispensible, like Red Gate's SQL Compare.

The team is blogging about it, and entries can be found on the following team member blogs.

http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/

http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons

http://blogs.msdn.com/rwaymi

http://blogs.msdn.com/mattnunn

http://blogs.msdn.com/thomas_murphys_agile_db_blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/tsdatabl

Posted by Douglas Reilly at 10:35 AM  Permalink