Thursday, December 07, 2006

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

You have probably read on blogs everywhere that Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals has been released (check out GertD's Blog). The download will be available on MSDN any day now. Do note that Visual Studio Team Suite is required (of which a free trial can be downloaded).

Unlike my love for ISQLw over Management Studio I do feel VSTE for DBPros was a missing piece from our toolkit. It finally brings some features our way that have been around for a long time for .NET developers like Unit Testing, Refactoring, Team Foundation Server integration, ...

Another nice feature is "Data Generator". Random data can be easily generated (even based on regular expressions) and can be configured to take into account the ratio between related tables.

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