Some users have been reporting problems installing the VSDB Power Tools on Vista or Windows Server 2008 (applies to both 32 and 64 bit versions). When they run the Power Tools installer they are confronted with the following mysterious error message: Error code 2738 implies that the VBScript engine is not enabled. On some Vista and Windows ...

We have had a lot of requests from users asking us to make T-SQL Static Code Analysis available at build time and from the command line. The latest Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tool release, adds this ability to the product through a new MSBuild task. In this blog post I will go through the step that you need to follow to ...

An other new addition to the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition - Power Tools release is the File Bound Generator. This data generator grovels through files inside a directory or optionally through its subdirectories, based on some search filter you provide and loads the content of the file in to a column value. The file content is ...

One of the new features in the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition - Power Tools release is the addition of the Data Generation Wizard. The Data Generation Wizard is an item template wizard that allows you to create and configure a data generation plan by pointing it at an existing database, which has the same schema as the underlying ...

The Power Tools v1.0 release adds a new data generator, named the ''Sequential Data Bound Generator''. Since there already exists a data generator named the ''Data Bound Generator'' this yields the question what the difference is between the two is and when to use either one of them. Data Bound Generator The Data Bound Generator, takes the query ...

The Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals first Power Tools release can be downloaded from the following location: Power Tools download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88852 If you want to know want functionality is in the Power Tools, check out my previous blog post on this ...

So what? Or for those of you who have been paying close attention, you know that August 6th is the date I promised the first Power Tools to be released. So where are they? We are not there yet, we released the first release candidate today, I need to finish two more threat models and then we are ready to rock & roll, so it will be this ...