• I'm just following company standards. The typical way they've been setting up Visual Studio source-controlled projects, that have databases associated with them, is to create the database connections using aliases, so that whether the project is "live" or in development, the code is the same.

    You're probably right, thought, setting up the various separate build environments would probably achieve what I need, had been having tunnel vision. I'll check into it & see what may be doable. Thanks.

    I am still curious, though, why I can't set up a referenceable alias for SS 2012 but I can for SS 2005 & 2008.