SQL Server Data Tools Team Blog
Official team blog for SSDT, a tool for on- and off-premises database development
We are pleased to announce that SQL Server Data Tools 17.0 is officially released and supported for...
Date: 04/19/2017
It's been a busy few months for SSDT with multiple Release Candidate releases of the 17.0 major...
Date: 03/10/2017
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is...
Date: 10/20/2016
In the most recent version of SqlPackage.exe and the Data-Tier Application Framework (DACFx), we...
Date: 09/20/2016
Recently we have received questions about sqlpackage.exe and its supported parameters. In this blog...
Date: 09/07/2016
Today marks the release of Visual Studio “15” Preview 4. The SQL Server Data Tools team is happy to...
Date: 08/22/2016
This blog is part 5 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous...
Date: 08/22/2016
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is...
Date: 08/15/2016
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is...
Date: 06/30/2016
A major benefit of the new SQL Server is that you don't need to wait years to get new features....
Date: 06/30/2016
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SSDT General Availability (GA)...
Date: 06/01/2016
Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
One of key benefits of developing database with SSDT is you can easily integrate Application...
Date: 04/06/2016
This blog is part 1 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous...
Date: 04/06/2016
This blog is part 2 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous...
Date: 04/06/2016
This blog is part 3 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous...
Date: 04/06/2016
This blog is part 4 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous...
Date: 04/06/2016
Update: Now that SSDT is GA, please go to the main SSDT download page to get SSDT. The post below...
Date: 04/05/2016
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SSDT Preview is now available....
Date: 03/07/2016
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SSDT Preview is now available....
Date: 02/04/2016
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SSDT Preview is now available....
Date: 12/16/2015
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SSDT Preview is now available....
Date: 12/01/2015
The SQL Server Data tools team is pleased to announce an update for SSDT Preview is now available....
Date: 10/26/2015
Today we announce the latest preview of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). The September preview update...
Date: 09/30/2015
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SSDT Preview is now available....
Date: 09/01/2015
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SSDT RTM is now available....
Date: 06/29/2015
Today we announce the latest preview of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). It is the first release from...
Date: 06/24/2015
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SSDT is now available. This...
Date: 05/18/2015
A few months ago our team presented at the SQLBits XIV conference. The topic was Best Practices for...
Date: 05/05/2015
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for the Data-tier Application...
Date: 04/29/2015
The DacSamples project is moving from CodePlex to GitHub under the new name...
Date: 03/19/2015
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SQL Server Data Tools in Visual...
Date: 03/02/2015
Our team has been hard at work these past few months, and we're thrilled to announce that the most...
Date: 02/23/2015
We are excited to announce the release of the Preview of Microsoft® SQL Server Database Tooling in...
Date: 12/18/2014
We’d like to announce the availability of the latest November 2014 release of SQL Server...
Date: 11/13/2014
Presentation on Visual Studio Database Projects Integration with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
This post contains the slide deck from a recent presentation on how to integrate Visual Studio...
Date: 08/04/2014
This post provides walkthroughs that discuss the use of SQL Server Database Projects (.sqlproj...
Date: 07/24/2014
Since we are offering our VS2013 update via the Visual Studio update channel, there aren't any...
Date: 07/23/2014
Schema compare is one of the most important Visual Studio SQL Server tooling components. As of our...
Date: 07/15/2014
We’d like to announce the availability of the latest July 2014 release of SSDT. This update is...
Date: 07/14/2014
SQL Server 2014 introduced a number of new enterprise features. The most notable of these are memory...
Date: 03/30/2014
We’d like to announce the availability of the latest March 2014 release of SSDT with support...
Date: 03/25/2014
Hello all, there have been some questions around our support for various Visual Studio versions and...
Date: 01/30/2014
The SSDT January 2014 release has been updated to support both SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data...
Date: 01/27/2014
Recently there has been an increasing interest in extending the capabilities of SSDT and DacFx. The...
Date: 12/23/2013
We’d like to announce the availability of SSDT that supports SQL Server 2014 databases. SQL...
Date: 10/25/2013
The October 2013 release contains an updated installer that does not fail due to certificate...
Date: 10/10/2013
We are aware of a new issue today where installing SSDT will fail with the following message "A...
Date: 10/08/2013
The September 2013 release has a targeted fix for the Schema Compare error when working with large...
Date: 09/17/2013