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		Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition provides developers with an advanced set of tools to identify inefficient, insecure or poor-quality code, specify coding best practices, and automate software unit testing.		Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition provides advanced tools for database change management and testing. It offers functionality to enable database developers and administrators to be more productive and increase application quality in the database tier.
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Third-Party Database Schema Provider (DSP) Offerings

Third parties can develop DSPs which implement models to expand the support for specific database platforms and versions such as DB2 and Oracle.

• The Database Edition GDR  introduced a new product architecture that provides a model representation of a database schema providing the architecture needed for supporting heterogeneous databases.
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 will introduce extensibility points to expand support for other database platforms.

Each DSP will add support to Team System Development and will provide some or all of the following features:

• Offline Schema Development
• Import Schema
• Schema Compare
• Data Generation and Unit Testing
• Refactoring
• Visual Database Designers and Diagrams

Publicly Announced DSP Offerings

The following offerings are planning to be available when Visual Studio Team System 2010 is released. There are more to come.

• Project Fuze: DSP for Oracle from Quest Software