I don't usually talk much about Microsoft programming softwares packages since I'm more of hardware/ sys-admin guy that does practical hands on but I'm sure database developers will love this.
Microsoft has unveiled the new Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition software that's designed to help database developers and administrators better collaborate with other members of application development teams. Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, which expects to ship before the end of the year, will be the fourth role-based edition of the development software. Today, there are tool sets targeted at developers, architects and testers available as part of VS 2005.
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition features some new additions :
*A new Visual Studio Database Project allows you to import your database schema and place it under source control. When the time comes to deploy schema changes the new project system allows you to quickly build update scripts or packages and then provides a mechanism to deploy them to the database of our choice.
*Rename Refactoring allows you to easily rename any object in your database and be assured that all references to that object will be renamed to correspond to the change
*A New T-SQL Editor allows you to be more productive when writing T-SQL code from within Visual Studio including support for parallel execution of queries and viewing of execution plans.
*SchemaCompare allows you to quickly compare the schema of two databases (or your source controlled project and a database) and script updates to bring the database schemas into sync
*DataCompare allows you to quickly compare two databases and script updates to bring the data in these databases into sync
*The Database Unit Testing infrastructure allows you to create database unit tests using T-SQL or managed code.
*DataGenerator lets you create data generation plans that produce repeatable sets of meaningful data based upon your existing production databases that can be deployed to a database prior to running unit tests thus ensuring consistent test results
Microsoft rolls out new Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition source
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