SQL Connect

Visual Studio add-in to help you develop and version control databases:

• Develop databases in Visual Studio alongside application code
• Track and share changes using your source control system
• Query databases and execute stored procedures from Visual Studio

SQL Connect lets you work on your database in Visual Studio alongside your application code. It has a simple workflow and setup, stops you from having to switch between development environments, and helps with continuous integration.

How it works

To represent your database, SQL Connect creates a Visual Studio project which contains CREATE scripts for each database object.

You can edit the CREATE scripts yourself or run queries against the database and let SQL Connect change the scripts for you. You can then share your changes with your team using your existing source control plug-in.

SQL Connect can synchronize your Visual Studio project and your database with one click in the Solution Explorer. It also provides a synchronization panel so you can check the SQL differences between database objects and your project.

Using SQL Connect with SQL Source Control and SQL Compare

SQL Connect projects can share the same repository as databases connected to SQL Source Control. You and your colleagues can choose whether to work in Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio but still share changes easily.

At deployment, you can use SQL Compare to roll out database changes directly from a folder containg the CREATE scripts.

Getting started

For help getting started, read our PDF guide or view our introduction video walkthrough:

Tell us what you want next from SQL Connect

The most important (and interesting) thing for us is to make sure that SQL Connect gives you the features you need to get your job done.

We're working on SQL Connect constantly at the moment, using feedback from our users to drive development.

You can tell us what you'd like to see next now (there are in-product links, too), or take a look at what we've added over the past few months.

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What people say...

It's elegant in its simplicity, and does a great job of doing 99% of the stuff I used to have to do in [SQL Server] Management Studio.

Nate Suver, Stratis Business Systems

Used @redgate SQL Connect for 15mins and WOW! So simple, just amazing.

@le_sloth