Overviews

This section contains topics that provide an overview of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, such as the underlying principles of managing how an entire application, including the database, is developed. This section also describes the architecture of Team Edition for Database Professionals, how it relates to the rest of Visual Studio Team System, and terminology associated with Team Edition for Database Professionals.

In This Section

• Managing Database Change
  Describes how you can use Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals to manage your database as part of your overall application development.

• Architectural Overview of Team Edition for Database Professionals
  Provides an overview of the architecture of Team Edition for Database Professionals and how it relates to other parts of Visual Studio Team System.

• Extensibility in Team Edition for Database Professionals
  Describes the extensibility points that are available in Team Edition for Database Professionals.

• Required Permissions in Team Edition for Database Professionals
  Describes the permissions that are required to perform various operations in Team Edition for Database Professionals.

• Terminology Overview of Team Edition for Database Professionals
  Describes terminology associated with the features of Team Edition for Database Professionals.

Related Sections

• An Overview of Database Creation and Deployment in a Team Environment
  Provides background information about how to create, update, and deploy a version-controlled database schema.

• Overview of Transact-SQL Editor
  Provides an overview of how to create, analyze, and execute scripts and queries in the T-SQL editor.

• Overview of Generating Data
  Describes the uses and capabilities of the data generation functionality.

• Overview of Comparing Database Schemas
  Describes aspects of the schema-comparison functionality in Team Edition for Database Professionals, including safety considerations.

• Overview of Comparing Database Data
  Describes aspects of the data-comparison functionality in Team Edition for Database Professionals.

• Overview of Database Unit Testing
  Introduces database unit testing and describes the structure and contents of a database unit test.

• Overview of Rename Refactoring
  Provides an overview of how to rename a schema object, and the effect on other objects in the database project.