FAQ: Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

No. Team Edition for Database Professionals is available as a separate product; however, to evaluate the Team Edition for Database Professionals Trial you must first install the Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite 180-Day Trial. Customers who have Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite will also receive Team Edition for Database Professionals at no additional charge.

You can extend the tests using VB or C# but there is currently no way to expose new assertions in the designer.

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals creates a change script that can either be executed from within Visual Studio or run from command line, SQL Server Management Studio, or as an exe.

It will reside on whatever server you ask it to deploy against.

No. The Database Rename Refactoring only applies to schema items in the database.

Database Rename Refactoring is a method of performing cascading updates to database schema. This allows you to make a change to the name of any object in the database schema (i.e. a Table, Column, Stored Procedure etc) and have that change made everywhere that object is referenced in the database schema.

We recommend that you use Team Foundation Server due to the enhanced functionality it provides but you can use any Version Control system that can connect through the SCCI providers in Visual Studio 2005.

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals will support SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.