The VDT designers were hosted in the Visual InterDev shell and introduced a new database project type that served as a container for Transact SQL (T-SQL) scripts generated by the tools. Before VDT, ...

SQL Advisor. SQL Server Data Tools: A Work in Progress. I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is ...

Microsoft recently updated SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) with support for Visual Studio 2012, improved LocalDB functionality and new SSDT Power Tools. SSDT, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a ...

An open source project gives DBAs the ability to channel PowerShell for automating and scaling complex SQL Server tasks, starting with the most basic: database backups.

Learn more about SQL Server Business Intelligence (SQL Server BI) at Techopedia. Data warehouses may provide developers with tools for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data. Performance ...