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 …
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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 …
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 …