Walkthroughs (Creating and Updating Version-Controlled Database Schemas)

The walkthroughs in this section introduce you to creating, updating, and deploying changes to your databases. Each walkthrough focuses on one of multiple processes that you follow to create and manage ongoing changes to your databases.

In This Section

• Walkthrough: Create and Deploy a New Version-Controlled Database
  Explains how you create a database project and database objects and then deploy that database to a server.

• Walkthrough: Put an Existing Database Schema Under Version Control
  Explains how you create a database project, import the schema from an existing database, and then put that database under version control.

• Walkthrough: Modify Database Objects
  Explains how you use the Transact-SQL editor to modify objects in your database project.

• Walkthrough: Deploy Changes to an Existing Version-Controlled Database
  Explains how you deploy updates from a database project that is under version control to a database server.

Related Sections

• Starting Team Database Development
  Contains topics that describe how you create and update 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.

• Build and Deploy Databases to an Isolated Development Environment
  Contains topics that describe how you build and deploy changes to a new or existing database schema that is under version control.

• Terminology Overview of Database Edition
  Describes terminology associated with the features of Visual Studio Team System Database Edition.