Peter shows how a Visual Studio database project can make you more productive when making changes to your database. But a database project also gives you a variety of tools to let you keep track of ...

Deployment to any current edition of SQL Server, including SQL Azure The biggest new introduction to SSDT is the close integration of Database and Application Projects in Visual Studio.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

Reverse Engineering a Database SQL Server Data Tools can reverse engineer an existing database into an empty project using the Import command.

Starting a new project in Visual Studio and opening Server Explorer from the Toolsbox or by choosing View > Server Explorer is how you can connect to your SQL Server database.

A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs.

Visual Studio includes SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) as part of its architecture for developing SQL Server relational databases. You can design databases for SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, and Azure SQL ...