database-project

Just wondering if anyone knows how to set a saved publish profile as the default i.e. profile that's automatically loaded when I select publish. I love the new profile approach but I'm a bit over having to reselect the same profile over and over while I'm developing. In VS2012 and up, you can set the Default Publish Profile by right-clicking on the .xml profile file and clicking the Set As Default Publish Profile option. It will then be auto-loaded when you click to Publish the project. So I've just discovered how to do this, right click on the specific .xml file (e.g. Debug.publish.xml) that

Are there way to using data generation plans in VS 2010's database projects to create a set of default data? Or am I barking up the wrong tree i.e. are data generation plans best suited to create dummy example data? We have a bunch of data (default settings, default users etc etc) that needs to be created for each database deployment. It would be nice to have tooling to help us with this, so it can be source controlled and better managed. I'm guessing that there are probably third party alternatives, but I'm hoping there is a built-in Visual-Studio-Way of doing things, so it can integrate

I almost have a NAnt script together that will build and deploy VS2010 database projects, but one error stands in my way: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.TSqlTasks.targets(56,5): error MSB4062: The "SqlBuildTask" task could not be loaded from the assembly Microsoft.Data.Schema.Tasks.Sql, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Data.Schema.Tasks.Sql, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find

I created a schema in our SQL Server 2012 database called [Auth] . Then tables and triggers were created as well. Later I was informed that the schema naming standard is lowercase, so it should be [auth] . I renamed the schema in the database project, and all related references. However, the Schema Compare feature doesn't detect the difference, and isn't renaming the schema. This affects our Entity Framework objects, as they should be 'auth' . Is there a way to make the database project see a case change as a change, and update the database? There is an option in the project settings called

I'm just in the middle of migrating my solutions from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2013. I have this (maybe) silly problem with database comparisons options. I would like to exclude certain object types from comparison globally so that I don't have to do this every time. In Visual Studio 2010 those options were available in Tools -> Options -> Database Tools -> Schema Compare. I cannot find anything corresponding in Visual Studio 2013. There isn't a corresponding option with the SSDT framework (what replaced DB Projects). The best you can do is save your schema compare, then include it

How can I script the deployment of a Visual Studio database project? I have a DB project in visual studio and I would like to use it in order to deploy on remote machines via a script. I notice that when I 'deploy' from visual studio, it generates a .sql file. I intercepted this file and tried running it from the command line with osql.exe, but I didn't have any success. Should this work, is there a better way to deploy a database programatically from a database project, may be by referencing in another project and calling some method to deploy it? MSBuild /target:SQLBuild MyProjectName.dbproj