"Did You Read It" for March, 2012
This blog post mentions some of the most interesting articles that I have read recently, with a little bit of my commentary on each article. I read "Implementing SQL Server solutions using Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects-a compendium of project experiences" . If you are using "Data Dude" in VS, you should read it to. Even if you don't implement all of the suggestions that @jamiet, it will give you a better idea of what is possible. The downside is that you may have to put a fair amount of time into improving things like build output or creating data that can be loaded into a development database that might not match the size of the production database, yet provides enough coverage to provide realistic query plans and durations. PMs are not always sympathetic to spending time on "features" that users do not see. Having spent a lot of time with Database Projects myself, you can burn a lot of energy trying to get the tool to do what y...