How do I Team Edition for Database Professionals

This page contains links to topics about common tasks that you perform with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.

Overviews

  • 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.

Walkthroughs

  • Walkthrough: Creating an Isolated Database Development Environment
    Describes how you can create a database project, import the schema from an existing database, and then add the resulting database project to version control. You also set up the database project properties for build and deployment. This step is typically performed by someone in an administrative role.
  • Walkthrough: Deploying Database Refactoring Changes
    Describes how you can set deployment properties for a refactored database project, build the project, and then deploy the project. You also compare the live database before and after deployment by using Server Explorer.

Preparing an Isolated Development Environment

  • How to: Create Database Projects
    Describes how you can use the New Database Project Wizard to create a database project for an existing database and import the schema for that database into the database project.
  • How to: Specify Tables for Data Generation
    Discusses the restrictions and requirements for what tables you can and cannot include in a data generation plan. Describes how you can specify tables in a data generation plan.

Performing Iterative Development Tasks

  • How to: Configure Database Unit Test Execution
    Describes how you can specify settings that control how your test connects to the database that you will test, how you deploy a schema from a database project to that database, and whether you populate the database with data.

Getting Ready for Deployment to Production

See Also

Concepts

Terminology Overview of Team Edition for Database Professionals

Other Resources

Troubleshooting (in Team Edition for Database Professionals)