Provides an overview of the steps that are required to build and deploy a new or existing database.

Describes how you generate a build script to create a database whose schema matches the database project or update a database to synchronize its schema with the database project.

Describes how you deploy the build script for a new or existing database after you build it.

Describes how you can control whether deployment should be canceled if data loss will occur.

Provides an overview of the settings that control database build and deployment.

Describes how you can configure build and deployment options for your database project by using the database project properties.

Describes how you can specify commands to execute before you build the database project or after the build has completed.

Provides an overview of the dialog box used to construct the pre-build or post-build command lines. This includes the list of macros that you can insert into those command lines.

Describes how you can create a Team Foundation build type and use it to build and deploy the database project.

Describes how you can suppress numbered warnings by using the properties of a database project.

Describes how you can use the properties of a database project to restrict the number of errors or warnings that appear when you build or deploy the database project.

Describes limitations of the settings that block deployment or schema updates when data loss might occur.

Contains topics that describe how you create the database project for a new or existing version-controlled database. This process includes importing a schema from an existing database or script into a database project.

Contains topics that describe how you open and work with an existing database project. This process includes importing schema updates from an existing database into a database project.

Provides an overview and links to topics that describe how you create, modify, and validate changes to database objects such as tables, stored procedures, and functions.

Contains topics that describe how you create and maintain scripts for deploying database schemas and managing databases.

Contains walkthroughs that introduce you to creating and deploying a version-controlled database, putting an existing database under version control, modifying database objects, and deploying changes to an existing database that is under version control.

Provides help for diagnosing and correcting problems that relate to your database project, as well as problems with building and deploying your version-controlled database.