In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database.

Promising that developers can 'save weeks of development effort,' Microsoft today answered their request for database project support in Visual Studio to target Azure SQL Data Warehouse projects.

A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs.

Microsoft says it's hard at work on a Visual Studio edition product targeted specifically at database developers and that it plans to ship it by year's end.