Installation Issue with Windows 7, Intel RAID Storage Controller and Advanced Format Disk

I had to re-install Windows 7 on one of my machines. It’s important to note that I had to re-install it, means, I had Windows 7 already running on that box. The installation started as expected, created the partition, copied the files, started to setup the system. And when it …

Disk Space Side Effects of SQL Server Data Tools

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) installs LocalDB, a new version of SQL Express. For details on LocalDB, please refer to Introducing LocalDB, an improved SQL Express. As Kevin Cunnane explains in the SQL Server forum thread Importing database always defaults to localdb, creating a SQL Server database project by SSDT …

Where Do SSDT SQL Scripts Connect To?

In some software projects I used empty Visual Studio solutions to create some kind of database projects. I added SQL script files to the solutions to create all database objects, like tables, functions, stored procedures, views, constraints, and so forth. A batch file was used to run all these scripts …

Create a SQL Azure Database using SSDT

To get into Microsoft Azure application development, I was playing around with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), trying to create a database on SQL Azure. I started creating a simple database, having two tables with a few columns. As done before with other tools, I was using the extended properties …

Windows Store App .NET Framework Subset

I’ve learned it when I created Silverlight apps – so why am I so surprised when playing around with Windows Store apps? The .NET framework for Windows Store apps only ‘provides a subset of managed types‘. This subset officially is called ‘.NET for Windows Store apps’. For details, please refer …