I wonder if anyone knows if it is possible to use a Database Project in Visual Studio with Firebird? It seems that the DataSource in Target connection in the Deploy tab in the project properties is locked to Microsoft SQL Server and same goes for the "import database objects and settings".
It would be really neat to be able to version control and handle a Firebird database the same way I can version control and handle a MS SQL database.
If this isn't possible, does anyone know of a good way to version control a Firebird database? :)
You can't. This is only for MS SQL.
Actually you can still use it with Firebird, but you'll not be able to use 90% of features, because it's expecting MS SQL - connection to database or syntax or ...
Maybe this Sourceforge project can help: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbnetinstaller/ :)
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I'm a bit lost in implmementing/using tfs version control with Oracle products. The project I'm on is using visual studio 2012, tfs 2013, an oracle 11g server, a few copies of Oracle SQL Developer, and a few copies of toad.
I was recently looking for a way to do tfs version control through visual studio using oracle developer tools*. Is this a viable approach?
When tooling around with it, I've been able to create a database project with tables, procs, etc and put this under tfs version control. I've also been able to run these procs against my normal database server. However, I have not been able to put my existing database under version control. I have also not been able to run my code against the visual studio database project.
So can tfs be used with oracle developer tools to provide a version control solution?
Alternatively, are there any ways to integrate tfs version control with both Oracle SQL develoeper and toad?
*Oracle Developer Tools - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/visual-studio/overview/index-097110.html
On the oracle developer tools promo page it says
"SQL Script Lifecycle with Source Control Integration: Generate SQL
scripts for Oracle schema objects that your .NET application uses,
manage them in an Oracle Database Project, check them into source
control, edit the scripts in the Oracle SQL Editor, and execute them
with a built in SQL*Plus execution engine."
How does this work? Can I automatically generate the scripts each night and check them in or something?
Yes, after you install Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio, you can configure your Oracle Data Connections in the Server Explorer, create a new Oracle Database Project, then drag and drop packages or other items from the Server Explorer to your new project. Then, after editing the .sql files that were generated, you can right-click on the .sql files generated and "Run" or "Run on...". Finally, you can also run subsets of each script by right-clicking on a selection and choosing "Run selection".
You still need the discipline to ensure everyone edits packages via source control and not on the database directly.
SSDT database projects in Visual Studio only support SQL Server.
One option is to try Red Gate Source Control for Oracle, a tool developed by the company I work for. This supports both TFS and Subversion. I'd be interested to know if this is something that might work for you.
You can use Toad to integrate Microsoft TFS changes. Please see : http://www.toadworld.com/products/toad-for-oracle/m/media-library/689.aspx
We are wanting to source control our Oracle Schema - as we have a number of SQL Server databases on our estate we would like to use a common tool - for the SQL Server databases we use Visual Studio 2010 / dbpro which nicely source controls each object, integrates into our CI environment, and assists build/deploy to UAT and Live.
We would like to do the same for our Oracle databases however, from the tools on offer, they don't seem to be at all close to the functionality VS2010 provides - the VS2010 Toad plugin is no longer supported; we are trialing the ODT (Oracle Data Tools) plugin however I can't seem to locate how I can generate a delta script (compare) of an Oracle database project Vs a target Oracle instance - this seems to be a fairly fundamental requirement
Does anyone have any ideas ? It might mean we may need to combine the source control capabilities of VS2010 with the compare (generate delta scripting) of another tool like SQL Developer. Has anyone gone down this path ?
Found this update in the Oracle forums:
Question:
Hi,
how can i do a schema compare in Oracle Developer Tools for visual studio ? and is it possible to do compare through command line from ODT or by any other way?
Answer:
This is now available in ODT 12.1 or later.
Here is a walkthrough:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=44785:24:1995235124222:::24:P24_CONTENT_ID%2CP24_PROD_SECTION_GRP_ID%2CP24_PREV_PAGE:8210%2C%2C24
Edit:
From my brief check, it enables comparison of existing schemas, but not comparison of the project with a database.
I haven't used it but redgate has schema control and source control for Oracle.
http://www.red-gate.com/products/oracle-development/
Oracle sell a Change Management pack and a Configuration Management pack , which they sell as chargeable extras to the Enterprise Edition licence. Yes, that is two products. Well not even multi-billionaires know where the next tropical island hideaway is coming from :)
Anyway, if your project has the spare cash you can find out more here and here.
All,
I have Oracle database project in VS2008. Now i upgraded my project to VS2010.While trying to create a database project , i can see i can't select any other Data source other than SQL Server. But in VS2008 i have option to select different data source.
I read about Toad Extension for Visual Studio and but its also not supported anymore.
http://www.toadworld.com/Blogs/tabid/67/EntryId/519/Creating-an-Oracle-Project-with-Toad-Extension-for-Visual-Studio.aspx
http://toadworld.com/Blogs/tabid/67/EntryId/876/What-happened-to-Toad-Extension-for-Visual-Studio.aspx
How can i set up oracle database project in VS2010. Is there any way through TFS?
Any suggestions??
Thanks
I believe you may want to install the Oracle Data Provider for .NET. (ODP.NET)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/dotnet/index-085163.html
EDIT:
also you may want to check this one that supports entity framework
http://www.devart.com/news/2008/directs475.html
I am trying to create a VS2010 SQL Server 2008 database project for a SQL Server 2008R2 database. When I attempt to import an existing database a window popups up with the following message "The database that you selected is not supported."
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Note: I have managed to create a database project that happily allowed me to create a table in the master database on the same SQL Server 2008 R2 database.
Thanks
Ok so I figured this one out myself. I think this may be related to my uninstalling some software / database driver that had a connection reference in Visual Studio which was not cleaned up.
Basically to fix the problem I closed Visaul Studio and then deleted this file.
C:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ServerExplorer\DefaultView.SEView
Here is a link to the question and answers that helped me out:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/552006/unable-to-create-data-connection-in-server-explorer
Probably your existing database has different version. Try this: How to: Change the Target Database Version
I'm creating a .ASPNET project and I would like to setup nHibernate as my ORM tool. I will be using an existing oracle database and Visual Studio 2010. ORM tools are very new to me and really could use any advice to better understand the tool and the process required to implement them.
I've been following an article at http://nhforge.org/wikis/howtonh/your-first-nhibernate-based-application.aspx to learn about it and am stuck where they say to create a local database as mine only give me the option to create a SQL server database (perhaps this a new for visual studio 2010?). Is the purpose of this database just to cache results from the live database?
Thanks for your help!
Geoff
have a look to SchemaExport helper class, NH can create the DataBase Schema for you ( anyway you have to create the "user" in the oracle database to connect to ). AFAIK VS2010 does not support OracleDB out of the box.
If you need to reverse engineering the DB in thehbm mapping files, you can try (my) OS tool: http://nhforge.org/wikis/howtonh/how-to-use-db2hbm.aspx, but yet again, complete Oracle is not supported, but you can do the work by configuring.