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Juneau /SSDT/ SQL Server Data tools won’t install even with Visual Studio SP1 installed

Many people have reported that you can’t install the CTP4 of Juneau/SQLServer Data Tools (SSDT) even though you already have Visual Studio SP1 installed. The problem is the install for SSDT requires Visual Studio SP1 and if it can’t find it, the setup...

Deploying a database solution in Visual Studio Database Professional - Tip

I really like the database projects in visual studio however there are a few bug bears that really annoy me.

This post is about deploying a solution.

When working in development i have the project set to build the delpoy script and to deploy it. Whats annoying is that I prefer to work in the schema view of the project and not the solution view and in schema view there is no context menu(that I know of) to deploy the project. So each time you want to deploy you have to go to the the solution explorer view, this is very time consuming (relatively).

I decided this week to find a way around this, .....

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XML Schema Collection in Database Professional Project

If you are wanting to use schemas in your database using database professional then it is not that obvious.

You can add XML SCHEMA COLLECTIONs but where do they do to. They are tuck away in the programability node under types, not the most obvious location.

Secondly if you create schemas using the ADD file option you will be presented with a file like,.

CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION [dbo].[XMLSchemaCollection1]

    AS N'[xml_schema]'

Thats not too great if you already have your schemas and/or want to use the schema tools in visual studio. You don't want to have to copy the schema into the string bit of the declaration

The trick is to ....

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"unable to switch the encoding" when deploying XML Schemas using Database Professional

I've just blogeed about how to use XML Schema Collections in Visual Studio Database Professional Project I mentioned there is one gotcha about. The gotcha is if you have UTF-8 encoded schemas then they fail to be deployed. This is because they get...
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Repeated menu options in Visual Studio for Data Dude

If you've installed the GDR of data dude you might find that you have duplicate menus. Gert has blogged about it here http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2009/03/08/dealing-with-confused-installations.aspx If you are running on a 64 bit OS then you...
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Data Dude : Database Documentor

If you want to document your database you've got to see Gert Drapers on Channel9. Data Dude is answering so many of those questions/challenges I've been trying to solve for database builds over the past decade. I am so pleased to see the database...

Free 2GB SQL Server USB Keys

We are holding the next UK SQL User group meeting in Central London on the 26th April from 6pm - 9pm (later if you fancy a drink) The eveneing will have a SQL event and BI event running side by side with 8 presenters and loads of giveaways including t...

Variable substitution in Data Dude Scripts

One of the great aspects of Data Dude is that it uses SQLCmd to run the scripts. This means that it can use the variable substitution. One gotcha however is that Data Dude tries to be clever and validate your code before the substiution. This means something...