Microsoft recently updated SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) with support for Visual Studio 2012, improved LocalDB functionality and new SSDT Power Tools. SSDT, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a ...

The VDT designers were hosted in the Visual InterDev shell and introduced a new database project type that served as a container for Transact SQL (T-SQL) scripts generated by the tools. Before VDT, ...

SQL Advisor SQL Server Data Tools: A Work in Progress I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is ...