Share t-sql snippets to the team with SQL Prompt

Red-Gate SQL Prompt is a plugin for SQL Server Management Studio that makes the developers life easier when writing t-sql. It provides improved intellisense, indent and coding styles, and also a snippet manager feature that allows the developer to create a set of useful shortcuts. Those autocomplete items can be really useful for a team, let’s see how we can share them in a team.

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SQL Server under source control with Team Foundation Services and Red-Gate Source Control

During the last few years I’ve been involved in database source control management and release plans tasks. These are important and (mostly) underestimated topics.

You can implement source control management in many different ways

  • Visual Studio and TFS/SVN/GIT/..
  • Direct integration with source control tools and filesystem
  • Sql Server Management Studio integrated with TFS/SVN/GIT/..
  • Database backups
  • misc..

IMHO, putting databases under source control management should be mandatory for every team.

In this post, I will try to explain how SQL Server Management Studio can cooperate with one of the third party tools that I’m currently using. This is the scenario: