Data dude get's DotNetRocked

Thought I'd get by blog going by giving some praise to Visual Studio for Database Professionals.  Having downloaded CTP3 last week I've been trying to throw some time into seeing if it can fill the gap we have all been craving for. 

Knowing full well this is a very early release I expected there would be some bugs.  But in small chunks it seems to work ok.  In regards to importing a schema, I tried this with a Northwind DB and seemed to be fine.  But I then tried one of our Dev DB's with 1200 objects and it seemed to chug along well until I started to look at the tables in the Solution Explorer.  Drilling into a table I then wanted to look at the columns in the table but there was nothing. 

On the plus side I could still get the scripts out and use them.  Also, the Data Compare tool works well and came in very usefull this week in reversing some changes back to a few rows. 

To finish off I listened to the latest installment of DNR last night that was recorded live from TechNet on the above mentioned subject.  Well worth a listen on what Kurt and team have planned for the product. 

Over and out

Steve