database-project

To be true the following query is not originally mine, but I am facing the exact issue in my work. And thus copying the problem statement as it is. I am not able to find any solution. I would really appreciate any suggestions or highlights of the following Problem Set: I do not have any hardcoding in Schema Objects\Database Level Objects\Storage\Files - both in database and log files. The deployment script that gets generated when I click "deploy" from db project has hardcoding in :SETVAR with database and log file path assigned to $(DefaultDataPath) and $(DefaultLogPath) - see below: :setvar

I have a visual studio 2008 database project that is under version control (git). I am getting conflicts in the project_name.dat when I try to merge my branches. So my questions ares: What is the project_name.dat file? Do I need it? That is can I leave it out of my version control No , you shouldn't have it under sourcecontrol as it's autogenerated. Offtopic but maybe useful: You should configure your VCS so that special files and folders will be ignored during your commit. I use Subversion in a Windows environment and the only thing to do is to put a file called config in %APPDATA%/subversion

I'd like to take a snapshot of my database, make some changes and then use the db compare functionality to identify the changes, and who knows, maybe even generate scripts to make the change. I'd like to avoid having to backup the current db and restore it as a separate db just to have a "before" snapshot. I'm guessing I shouldn't have to. Obsviously, I'm clueless about db projects and am looking to be pointed in the right direction. ty! On the machine which you will generate the schemafile, do the following: Download Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Service Pack 2 for Windows Desktop .

I was unable to google this. We have an existing database project (sql server). Some new files (scripts) were added. We have an existing server / database where some new scripts need to be run into that context. In Visual Studio 2015, how can I accomplish this? I was told to stay inside Visual Studio 2015. Ideally, I'd like to issue one command vs one for each individual script. You have a couple of choices. The Publish option. This is a totally automated deployment of what's in the db project to the target server. Do this by right-clicking your project and selecting Publish. This option can

And should I add it to the source code repository? It is for state persistence for Schema View. The state of this view is saved locally, there is no need to add it to source code. The SQL Server project type has a special Schema View window and an extra Data menu item. Also the Solution Explorer gets two extra buttons: Database Schema View and Reanalyze Project . When the Schema View is open, 4 menu items under Data|Schema View are activated with the same functionality as 4 of the buttons in the Schema View window (a rather strange button in the Schema View window is the Solution Explorer