I'm giving Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (GDR Version) a go on a new project I'm working on and have come up against a slightly annoying problem that I am hoping someone knows how to resolve.
In a nutshell, I would like to alter the default templates used to generate database objects, particularly stored procedures. In the past, using SSMS, I have simply created my own templates which contain the formatting, default number of parameters, etc, that I would generally like to use whenever I create a new sproc. This obviously eliminates a good amount of hand coding and just "feels right" to me to have some consistency in my T-SQL code.
I've tried editing the .sql files located in ..\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\DBPro\Items by adding the formatting and default constructs I would like to use. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get VSTS to recognize these changes. When I add a new stored procedure using the GUI it still uses the default stored procedure formatting.
I've tried shutting down Visual Studio and starting it back up after making these adjustments, but that doesn't seem to have any effect.
Does anyone know how to do this? I haven't been able to find any documentation on MSDN or the DBPro teams' blogs, but I have a feeling this can done. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\DBPro\Items is a legacy directory. These are the wrong templates. The right templates are in Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VSTSDB\Extensions\SqlServer\Items. Editing these works, and you don't even have to close visual studio.
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I have my database in phpmyadmin.
Now I have to use that database in SQL server database.
But I cannot import .SQL file into visual studio 2010.
So please give me a solution so that I can use that database and perform CRUD operation also.
Okay so im trying to help you dude. but first, you must understand that phpmyadmin is just an RDMS environment for accessing, configuring, managing, administering, and developing all components of the RDMS. So what does it mean? you can still work on visual studio probably c# or vb (i guess) so you can perform a CRUD operation. How? these are the things you need to do:
know how to connect your prepared .net language (c# or vb) - you might need to look at Connector/NET mysql. you can google, its free.
familiarized on the said library.
find some tutorial on how to do crud operation. maybe this article is great for you. Good Luck
Which version of Visual Basic does SSRS support?
MSDN page says that you write Visual Basic in the report code but doesn't say much about the version.
Good question. Microsoft are not very clear about this. The RDL specification for SQL Server 2008 R2 states that expressions "are defined in a Visual Basic compatible syntax", but does not provide any other detail, except an obsolete link. There is also no mention of custom code other than .NET references for precompiled dlls.
Code written in a report is stored as text within the RDL file after it is deployed, which means that it is either interpreted on the fly or JIT-compiled when it the report is run. For this reason, if you have a large volume of, or intensive code, precompiling to a dll and referencing it in the report will offer better performance.
I am trying to setup a simple snippet in SQL Server management studio. When I heard the word "snippet", I assume that they would work like they do in Visual Studio. By that I mean that there are variables that get filled in, etc... I am not seeing that.
Can someone tell me whether SSMS 2012 supports Visual Studio style snippets. If so, can you provide an example of a snippet that supports variable replacement.
This might be close to what your looking for. Under View->Template explorer is a list of a whole bunch of structures that you regularly use when working with, building, developing databases. You can also get to it using Ctrl+Alt+T. There are literally hundreds in there. Everything from building a view to setting up a trigger to creating XML schemas.
The really nice thing with templates is you can build your own structures that you regularly use. I have built quite of few of my own templates to hold snippets that I have acquired from the likes of Brent Ozars blitz scripts and others like the improved SP_WHO from Adam Machanic and such.
While maybe not as fancy (read interactive) as the ones you'll find in the Visual Studio projects I find them very handy.
If you use these templates there is another little feature that can be very handy. If you press Ctrl-Shift-M (or use the toolbar button that shows an A->B) you get a dialog that lets you easily replace the template parameters with your own values.
Update post research into SSMS2012
I just recently started using SSMS 2012 and see there is a new feature that I wasn't aware of. When right clicking you do in fact see the 'Insert Snippet' drop down. I understand your question better now. Apparently however, these are pretty much the same as what I posted above.
im having major issues trying to mirror our newly upgrade database solution (to GDR)... specifically the database project settings.
when i run a schema compare, i get differences on the IsTornPageProtectionOn variable, however when I go to the settings of the database project this setting is nowhere to be found!
i have tried googling for any sort of reference to this property in the visual studio 2k8 UI, however i cant find anything. only a bunch of obscure references on the msdn site, which dont say anything in regards to the ui.
if someone could point me in the right direction i would greatly appreciate it.
i am using sql server 2005.
i figured out an (obvious) workaround to this...
i simply edited the database settings file (the Database.sqlsettings file) in notepad and changed the setting via there. much easier :)
although if someone DOES still know where to change it from in the UI, i would appreciate it if you left a comment :)
I'm looking for a db script tool which can do the following:
Create "create-scripts" for each table in the database and place them in separate files. Note: these files should not contain relational constraints.
Create scripts for relational constraints (as one file or many, doesn't matter)
Create insert scripts for populating tables.
We are going to put the scripts into tfs and they will be updated fairly often, so a tool which is fast and efficient to is highly preferred. I'm going to integrate these scripts into msbuild to create a database for our integration tests.
You should use Visual Studio Database Professional. If you are using Visual Studio 2010 it is included with Ultimate (and perhaps other versions). For Visual Studio 2008 Team Developer it is a free download. It is fantastic and easy to deploy using MSBuild. All of the scripts that you store are create scripts, broken down by type similar to what you specified in your question.