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SQL Data Compare is the industry-standard tool for comparing and deploying SQL Server database contents. You can work with live databases, backups, or SQL scripts in source control. Damaged or missing data can be restored to a single row, without the need for a full database recovery. SQL Data Compare helps you compare and deploy changes quickly, simply, and with zero errors.
Today during the, we announced that we’ve partnered with to include Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017. Includes three components that extend DevOps practices to SQL Server and Azure SQL databases and increase your productivity while doing database development. Here’s a brief overview of each of them:. allows you to develop, source control, and safely automate deployments of database changes alongside application changes. ReadyRoll Core is available in the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2017.
offers advanced code completion for SQL. SQL Prompt Core is available in the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2017. lets you find SQL objects fast and easily explore across databases. SQL Search is available in all editions of Visual Studio 2017. You can install Redgate Data Tools using the Visual Studio Installer through the Data storage and processing workload or through the Individual components tab.
In this post, I’ll highlight how each of the Redgate Data Tools can improve your SQL database development. Deploy database changes with confidence using ReadyRoll Core Managing your database changes and incorporating them into your DevOps pipeline has always been difficult. Keeping track of what scripts need to be run and managing database states is often painful and error-prone. ReadyRoll Core simplifies this process by turning changes to your database schema into database migration scripts. These migration scripts can then be checked into source control and deployed to your other databases.
When you’re working in a ReadyRoll project and make changes to your development database using Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, or another tool of choice, ReadyRoll Core will list the changes you’ve made and show you the differences. Then, you can tell ReadyRoll Core to create a migration script based off these changes and add the new migration script to your project.
You can modify the generated migration script yourself if needed. Once you’re done making changes, you can check these migration scripts into source control alongside any other updates you made to your application and share your work with your team. Redgate also offers a that includes VSTS build and release tasks to safely deploy these migration scripts to other databases. This way, you can keep your database deployments consistent across multiple instances. You can set up VSTS to automate these database deployments to shift your database development further left and learn about potential problems sooner. Check out Redgate technical lead David Simner’s for an overview of how you can use ReadyRoll Core for your own database development.
Make writing SQL code a breeze with SQL Prompt Core SQL Prompt Core is a suite of SQL code editing productivity enhancements that help you write SQL code efficiently. Most importantly, SQL Prompt Core offers advanced code completion that automatically suggests SQL commands, column names, and more as you type. SQL Prompt Core is more than autocomplete though – it provides a myriad of other quality of life improvements that come together to simplify writing SQL code. Here are two of my favorite examples:.
Expanding wildcards – hitting the tab button after the. in a SELECT. FROM statement will expand the wildcard. SQL Prompt will then replace the.
with all available columns in that table. If you don’t want all columns, you can highlight the. instead and start typing to select the subset of columns that you need.
Suggestions for joins – SQL Prompt can complete join statements for you automatically and suggest possible joins based on foreign key relationships or column similarities as you type. Search quickly across SQL databases with SQL Search Finding SQL objects can be tricky and time-consuming when dealing with complex databases or when you’re unfamiliar with a database. SQL Search saves you time by quickly finding fragments of SQL in tables, views, stored procedures, and more. If you’re a database developer, you may have run into scenarios where you need to change a column and all stored procedures that reference that column. SQL Search makes this a cinch. Simply search for the column name and SQL Search will display all references to it. Double clicking an occurrence navigates you to it in the SQL Server Object Explorer, where you can make the appropriate changes.
Use Redgate Data Tools today in Visual Studio 2017 We’re excited to include in Visual Studio 2017 to make your database development easier and more efficient. To try them out, and feel free to. Check out as well if you’re interested in their other offering. Jeff Gao, Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform Jeff is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Platform team focused on improving the product acquisition experience. Jeff, will you help explain how ReadyRoll is any different from Schema Compare and generating resulting script?
I mean the way the description is written I could replace “ReadyRoll” with “Schema Compare” and it would describe a feature from SSDT. Similarly, SSDT could already expand wildcards by highlighting the. and typing or choosing to right-click then Refactor and choose Expand Wildcards. Lastly, SSDT can already change all references when changing an object by right-click then choosing Refactor in the project under SQL Server Object Explorer, which then gives you rename and move to schema (and another option).
Main reason I’m asking is because most places I go to do not source control their databases and I push SSDT as a solution to source control the database. The Red Gate integration seems strange as it’s adding functionality in Enterprise that seems to already exist. Is this a hint that SSDT is going away as we know it?
I know right now we can choose to ignore Red Gate but for new places I go to, I don’t want to sell them on SSDT if it is disappearing (or already gone). Disappointing to see SSDT eclipsed/tossed out in favour of VS Ent 3rd party tool that emphasises ‘deployment’. The D in SSDT was Developer not Deployment, schema compare and diff scripts was just a small part of what used for. The dev cycle of SSDT chg / deploy to LocalDB / update model (e.g., the excellent Rev Poco Generator) / update code – is very effective. Where is need for a suite of version-controlled sequential incremental migration scripts during development?
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That the object (table/view/sp/ etc.) definition is in version control is sufficient. Also, RR assumes its view of db is authorative whereas reality is DBAs make real-time chgs in prod – the suite of version-controlled incremental migration scripts can become stale and/or untrustworthy very quickly. And ‘yes’ I’ll upvote to have RR in all versions of VS – if (sigh) its going to replace SSDT then it needs to replace SSDT wherever SSDT was being used. ReadyRoll cannot import.dacpac files directly, however it can import them via a live database. To do so, use the SQL Server Object Explorer in Visual Studio to publish the data-tier application to your localdb SQL Server instance. Then, create a ReadyRoll project and follow the prompts to import from localdb and generate a baseline script 2/3.
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When you use the ReadyRoll tool-window to view pending changes, a database will be deployed in the background called the Shadow DB. The shadow is deployed based on the migration scripts within your project, providing you with a live model of your project schema. To create a dacpac (e.g. For performing a schema comparison) firstly ensure the shadow is up-to-date by clicking Refresh in the ReadyRoll window. Then, right-click the shadow db in the SQL Server Object explorer and extract data-tier application I hope this helps!