DNA_DBA (3/17/2011)

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Good question. There have been a few Visual Studio questions recently - it's made me want to find out more about it as it could be quite useful. ...

dave.farmer (3/10/2011)

For our last release, however, another developer did the release, and while he started with a generated deployment script he couldn't be bothered to follow my established procedure (one...

SanDroid (3/10/2011)

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If you have a good dev system with plenty of memory, more than one CPU core, and you are not running 32bit windows install on 64bit hardware importing Databases...

I've encountered *a lot* of people that disagree with that sentiment 🙂

I, however, agree...

SanDroid (3/10/2011)

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I could not find any Davelopment Tools that where released in the last ten years on MSDN.... 😀

I wonder if this is another victim of the Question submission tools...

Duncan Pryde (3/10/2011)

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Jamie Thomson (3/10/2011)

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The big benefits as far as I can see them are:

-Development-time error checking (i.e. find out about errors before you actually run the code - so...

Duncan Pryde (3/10/2011)

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Thanks for the links - I discovered after I posted that you have a...

This one may be particularly useful: Visual Studio 2010 SQL Server Database Projects

Duncan Pryde (3/10/2011)

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mohammed moinudheen (3/9/2011)

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I had no idea about the answer, I guessed it and got it right. 🙂

Off late, there are so many questions on Visual Studio tools in...

Ha ha. Whoops, my bad!

self serving? Why so?

I blog about it quite a bit here: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson/archive/tags/Datadude/default.aspx

Its a little bit of a self-promotion...

Try reading the article that Grant helpfully linked to.

Or, just carrying on ignoring anyone...

Hi all,

Just to be clear guys. "Datadude" is one of the colloquial names that I mentioned in the question. its not a formal name, nor even a codename, its just...

Beats me 🙂

That's why I thought it would be a fun answer to ask.