Databases ← Huddled Masses

Adventures getting MSBuild, TFS and SQL Server Data Tools to work together

Apr

2012

We recently found that our database project at work goes from a 40-minute build and compile to about 20 minutes when we upgrade from the VS2010 (SQL 2008) database projects (with the old .dbproj files) to the new SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) projects with the .sqlproj files, even though we’re still deploying to SQL ...

Rant: Sometimes I hate my job

Jul

2008

So I’ve been asked to add a feature to one of the apps that I nominally took over when my former manager left … they want a management pane where certain authorized super users (to be decided later) can add data to the main lookup tables, and must be able to do clean up by ...

About Huddled Masses

This is web site is dedicated to the musings of Joel Bennett (aka Jaykul) about technology, software, software development, the web, and the world.

Any resemblance of the views expressed and the views of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. The resemblance between them and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader.

P.S.: I occasionally link to things I think are great. When I do, I occasionally find a "referral code" so I can make a little cash. I promise that I don't link to anything just because of that cash (I wouldn't cross the street for the amount of cash those links bring in, never mind write a whole blog post) ... but I do not promise that things I link to will stay great as time passes, nor that you will agree with me about their greatness!