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Within SQL Server 2008 R2 a new feature was introduced, which was the data-tier application database. This feature allow developers / database administrators to package a database schema so that it could be deployed to any other database server and versioned. More about this feature can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee240739(v=sql.105).aspx or http://dacguy.wordpress.com/ This feature has been included, as I have just found out, to previous versions: SQL Server 2005 via Services Pack 4 and 2008 via Services Pack 2. However SQL Server Management Studio, for SQL Server 2008, hasn't been updated with the tools for the new feature, you have to use the SQL Server 2008 R2 version. The reason for including the support to the previous version might have something to do with the release of the new SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), the replacement to visual studio database professional, which uses DAC Packs and the framework to deploy a database. I have been using the

I have been working with the new SQL server data tools database project. This is going to be the successor to database professional tool, also known as data dude. There have been several differences to how this product works. One of them is the new tool project folder structure. There is now no folder structure within the project which means any file is automatically created into the root folder of the project. This is unlike database professionals, which had 2 comprehensive folder structures, the options were: by object type folder tree or schema related folder tree. My preference was always the object type folder structure, were script files which contain similar objects were all stored in the same folder e.g.: tables under a table folder, primary keys under the keys folder, views under a view folder etc. If you missed the object tree folder structure, like I have, there is a method to create this structure very quickly within your new data base project by using the following steps