Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Demo: A First Look at SQL Server Data Tools http://ak.channel9.msdn.com/ch9/4e6b/96489ac5-6db5-4353-9dd1-cce079794e6b/SQL11UPD00REC02_220.jpg Channel 9 - Demo: A First Look at SQL Server Data Tools This demo provides a quick tour of the new SQL Server Data Tools. SSDT makes it easy to develop powerful database solutions that target both your on-premise environment and the cloud. Roger Doherty Senior Program Manager, Microsoft en Fri, 24 May 2013 08:12:54 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 08:12:54 GMT Rev9 Re: Demo: A First Look at SQL Server Data Tools You can find all the content associated with this video at http://bit.ly/sql2012cookbook.

posted by rdoherty

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634667519489858659 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:19:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634667519489858659 rdoherty Re: Demo: A First Look at SQL Server Data Tools Roger,

thanks for a great introduction to the new tools. I can't express how thrilled I am to see this release from Microsoft as it promises to finally provide a solid end to end story for database developers in terms of deploying to on premise and SQL Azure.

We are running a team here that produces a software product that is subject to quick release cycles (and subsequent refactorings). We're targetting SQL Server 2008 and SQL Azure and currently rely on writing the per-release upgrade scripts using a combination of VSDBCMD (for automated schema diffs) and hand crafted scripts for e.g. renaming columns or moving data around, prior to executing the beforementioned schema diffs produced by VSDBCMD.

We just started on a new sprint with a user story for improving on quality assurance for upgrade scenarios and automated deployment to SQL Azure. As the person also responsible for the data tier in our software, I can't tell you how happy I am with the release of the new tools. It's going to make a big difference to our team, helping us provide a clear upgrade path with more automation - especially in terms of producing schema diffs for SQL Azure.

I have a few questions:

  1. Is there a managed API (like the SQL SMO) that allows us to include dacpac files in our own installer and subsequently deploy (clean install / upgrade) to on premise SQL Server or SQL Azure?
  2. The scenario I'm thinking of is having a single SQL Server Data Tools project as part of our solution and using TFS builds output dacpac files for SQL Server or SQL Azure (i.e. targetting the two different environments via configuration and then build the dacpacs).
    Is that possible?

Again, thanks for producing this video. Can't wait to get started.

posted by Borum.NET

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634669762313068294 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:37:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634669762313068294 Borum.NET Re: Demo: A First Look at SQL Server Data Tools This stuff looks great.  I am really enjoying the new capabilities, but wondering if there is a way to upgrade a data tier application (i.e. change an existing database's schema) without modifying any users or their permissions.  Essentially I would like to be able to to use a .dacpac to encapsulate all aspects of a database's schema WITHOUT messing around with stuff like users.  The scenario is developing a dacpac in a test environment, and then wanting to use it to upgrade say a production database, which obviously would have different security than in test.

I did find a bunch of advanced settings under the project settings' Debug tab, but those don't seem to affect the actual compare process when upgrading the data tier application from within SQL Management Studio -- it still insists on dropping existing users in that database, which is obviously not ok.

Any thoughts?

posted by lsjames

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634671260152554052 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:13:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634671260152554052 lsjames Re: Demo: A First Look at SQL Server Data Tools @Borum.NET: thanks for the comments!  Here's some answers to your questions:

Q: Is there a managed API (like the SQL SMO) that allows us to include dacpac files in our own installer and subsequently deploy (clean install / upgrade) to on premise SQL Server or SQL Azure?

A: DAC Fx has an API surface, check out http://sqldacexamples.codeplex.com

Q: The scenario I'm thinking of is having a single SQL Server Data Tools project as part of our solution and using TFS builds output dacpac files for SQL Server or SQL Azure (i.e. targetting the two different environments via configuration and then build the dacpacs). Is that possible?

A: Absolutely.  Think of .dacpac and .bacpac as a single-file deployment capability for schema (.dacpac) and schema + data (.bacpac).

posted by rdoherty

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634673704573036575 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:07:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634673704573036575 rdoherty Re: Demo: A First Look at SQL Server Data Tools @lsjames:I'd have to dig into your scenario a bit to answer this fully.  In general, DAC upgrade will try the most minimally invastive upgrade strategy possible.  I'm a bit suprised that it's messing with users, are you using DAC Fx 3.0 (that ships with RTM SQL 2012)?

posted by rdoherty

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634673706115863717 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:10:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634673706115863717 rdoherty Re: Demo: A First Look at SQL Server Data Tools @rdoherty: Awesome. Thanks for the feedback. I'll get started on the tools starting monday.

posted by Borum.NET

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634676856206244118 Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:40:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD00-REC-02#c634676856206244118 Borum.NET