September Meeting Follow-ups: Demystifying Visual Studio 2010 Database Tools

It was great to see such a large and enthusiastic group tonight at COALMG. Thank you to Alexei for delivering a great presentation on Visual Studio 2010 Database Tools. Following up on a few items of discussion:

• Visual Studio / TFS 2010 RTM "All-Up" VHD/VM from Microsoft and Brian Keller
• Deploying schema/DDL/DML changes to an existing database (e.g. production database in which we do not want to drop entities and we cannot access from our network to perform a comparison to our development or QA environments)
  
  • Ben Day article on deploying with VSDBCMD.EXE DBPro. 2008...still a great article
  • "Build and Deploy Databases to a Staging or Production Environment"
• The original powerpoint presentation was borrowed from Randy Pagels, modified version can be downloaded from here.