Exploring SQL Server Tools and Language Enhancements
An introduction to SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and T-SQL enhancements.
What you'll learn
This course explores the new developer-centric SQL Server Data Tools introduced with SQL Server 2012, including advanced SSDT topics such as snapshots, schema compares, and database deployment to both on-premise and cloud-based servers. In addition to a deep exploration of SSDT, several enhancements to the T-SQL language in SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2012 are explored, including table-valued parameters (TVPs), MERGE, windowing, sequence objects, error handling and host of new built-in functions.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Demo: Creating a SQL Server Database Project 6m
- Demo: Taking a Database Snapshot 2m
- Demo: Revisiting the Table Designer Offline 3m
- Demo: Creating a Foreign Key 2m
- Demo: Working with LocalDb 5m
- Demo: Updating a View 6m
- Demo: Database Refactoring 4m
- Demo: Debugging a Stored Procedure 8m
- Demo: Deploying with Schema Compare 9m
- Demo: Publishing to Windows Azure SQL Database 5m
- Demo: Creating a Final Snapshot 1m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Leonard Lobel (Microsoft MVP, SQL Server) is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Sleek Technologies, Inc., a New York-based development shop with an early adopter philosophy toward new technologies. He is also a principal consultant at Tallan, Inc., one of only 40 Microsoft National Systems Integrators in the United States. For more than 25 years, Tallan has been providing cutting-edge custom web/application development, business intelligence, customer relationship management, and int... more