Over the past few weeks I have been making heavy use of the Database tools in Visual Studio 2010 (formerly known as datadude, DBPro, VSTS for Database Professionals or one of a plethora of other names that it has gone by over the past few years) and one of the features that has most impressed me has been database references.   Database ...

Introduction I recently upgraded from Vista Ultimate (x64) to Windows 7 Ultimate (x64). So far I really like Windows 7, but I'm still in the honeymoon phase. I ran into an issue creating new packages using SSIS 2005 and found a solution I thought I'd share. The Error Unfortunately for both of us, I did not capture a screenshot of ...

Cool things are coming out of Mix08! There's even something there for we database people: SQL Server Data Services. From Neil Hutson's blog: SSDS you can think of as a structured data store in the cloud(building block service), which is accessed using Internet protocols using a basic data manipulation language. SSDS is for developers and ...

This is cool! Microsoft is giving away software - including SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, Windows 2003 Standard Edition, and Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Professional Editions - to college students. It's called DreamSpark and it puts professional software tools in the hands of students interested in learning more about designing and ...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/pdc  :{> Andy

You have to wonder if the Visual Studio Team System teams ever sleep... In the same month they released Visual Studio 2008 to manufacturing, the VSTS team has a fresh CTP VPC available for the next version! Download the bits here. :{> Andy