SQL Server Data Tools -Unleashing a power tool for DB and BI Work loads

Deepthi Anantharam

Technology Evangelist

The Problem ?

Agenda

SQL Server Data Tools

Visual Studio

Source Control

Continuous Integration

There was once a happy database

SQLPackage.exe

Extract – bacpac

Export – dacpac

Import

Publish

Demo

Extract schema from Production

Business wants changes and so developerwants to STOMP

Database development in Visual Studio

Create Database Project

Import database schema

Adding or changing objects

Demo

Making changes in SSDT for Visual Studio

What happens normally ?

Commit changes to source control

Run / Publish changes on servers

Continuous Integration Server

Pull

changes

when

detected

Commit Changes to Source Control

Build Solution

Package

the

output

Deploy

Success

Quality in Databases

Generate Unit tests for Stored Procs

Code Analysis

Set up best practices - Example: Do not use select *

Set up your own rules

Include Microsoft. SQLServer.DACFx into your lib

Data Warehouse Workloads

SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server Analysis Services – MOLAP & Tabular

SQL Server Reporting Services

And the database lived happily ever after

It is used day in and day out

In reality • One click deployment gives you a working database

• Se all changes any time

• Automated deployments

The thing is, every time I thought SSDT was doing something stupid, it was

actually me being stupid

A real quote from a real DBA

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ReferencesRelated references for you to expand your knowledge on the subject• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/data__knowledge__intellig

ence/archive/2013/03/29/sql-server-data-tools-ssdt.aspx

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/data__knowledge__intelligence/archive/2013/04/03/sqlserverdatatools-part2.aspx

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