So I’ve been using Visual Studio for Database Professionals (aka VSDBPro, aka DataDude) consistently this year for primarily new database development, both for Data Warehouses and OLTP Databases. This will be the first in what hopefully will become a series of posts about Database projects. In Database Professional there is are two types of projects, [...]
You will soon be able to utilize Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals for DB2. See Gert’s blog here. I really like DataDude and hope this gives it some more exposure. However the biggest hurdle seems to be it’s distribution. It’s only available through Team System Suite, this is a huge frustration in trying [...]
About a month ago a developer colleague and I were discussing the database professional role and he started to list the requirements he felt were appropriate for a senior .NET developer regarding database knowledge, which include 3NF, write stored procedures, views, UDF’s, etc. As a result I authored an internal paper and distributed it. Today [...]