Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools is a set of enhancements and tools that complement and improve the user experience of VSTS Database Edition 2008

Here are some key features of "Visual Studio Team System Database Edition Power Tools":

New Test Conditions for Database Unit Tests ￭ ChecksumCondition � You can use this test condition to verify that the checksum of the data set returned by a database unit test matches the checksum of an expected data set. ￭ ExpectedSchemaTestCondition � You can use this test condition to verify that the column names and data types of the returned data set match expected values.

Data Generator Improvements ￭ New Data Generator Wizard � This new wizard creates a data generation plan that is configured to copy data from a source database. You can use this wizard when you need to copy most of your data from a live source, but need to make small changes to ensure privacy.

MSBuild Task Improvements ￭ SqlAnalysis Task � You can use this build task to run T-SQL Static Code Analysis from MSBuild. ￭ TSQL Static Code Analysis ￭ Static Code Analysis - A precursor to the functionality that will be in future versions of VSTS that will allow you to perform Static Code Analysis on T-SQL code.

Refactoring ￭ "Move Schema" Refactoring - Allows a user to right click on an object and move it to a different but existing schema ￭ SP Rename Generation - Generate a new script that will contain sp_renames for all rename refactored objects that the user can then execute. ￭ Wildcard Expansion - Automatically expand the wildcard in a select to the appropriate columns. ￭ Fully-Qualified Name Support - Automatically inject fully-qualified names when absent in a script ￭ Refactoring extended to Dataset - Refactor into strongly typed dataset definitions

MSBuild Tasks ￭ Data / Schema Compare Build Tasks - MSBuild tasks that can generate scripts as if the user had run the Data / Schema compare UI

Schema View ￭ API Access to Schema View - Insert / Update / Delete to schema View and list schema objects and their associated files

Dependency Tool Window ￭ Dependency Tree - Show the dependencies ( incoming / outgoing ) for selected schema objects in a new tool window

Miscellaneous Tools ￭ Script Preprocessor - Expand SQLCMD variables and include files and command line version (sqlspp.exe) & an MSBuild version ( wraps the command line version )

Here are some key features of "Visual Studio Team System Database Edition Power Tools":

￭ Computer with a 2.0 GHz processor ￭ 512 MB of RAM (1 gigabyte [GB] recommended) ￭ 3 GB of available hard-disk space ￭ DVD-ROM drive ￭ 1024x768 resolution with 256 colors ￭ Keyboard and mouse or compatible pointing device ￭ Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition OR Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite ￭ An instance of SQL Server 2005 (Developer, Enterprise, Standard, Express, or Evaluation Edition)