Peter learns something by listening to readers: Visual Studio database projects provide a great environment for making changes to your databases. Here's a brief introduction about how they'll make ...

SQL Server Data Tools, released with SQL Server 2012 and coming with Visual Studio 11 Beta, are interesting and certainly worth a look soon, but I decided to first check out something a little simpler ...

Select File > New > Project from the File menu in Visual Studio. Click Integration Services under Business Intelligence under the Installed Templates area in the New Project window.

Select File > New > Project from the File menu in Visual Studio. Click Integration Services under Business Intelligence under the Installed Templates area in the New Project window.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.