A first look at Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition
Learn about Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 for database professionals, a useful tool for database development with Microsoft SQL Server.
2009-02-27
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VSTS
Schema Comparison with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
In this article Dinesh Priyankara describes how schema comparison can be performed using Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.
2008-03-11
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Apply Test-Driven Development to your Database Projects
This article from MSDN discusses the benefits of TDD and bringing unit testing to your database development.
2008-03-07
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Custom check-in policies with VSTS
In this column, I'll dig into check-in notes and policies. You'll learn how check-in notes work and how to write your own custom policy implementations.
2007-11-30
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Blogs
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Huge frustration - Database watcher with two elastic pools
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SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
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Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers