Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

With a few tweaks, you can turn Visual Studio's basic unit-testing capabilities into a powerful and extensible tool for improving code quality.

Red Gate has released SQL Test, a unit testing add-in for SQL Server Management Studio. It allows developers to create and run unit tests from within SSMS, and share them with other team members.

tSQLt is a free, open-source framework for unit testing in SQL Server. By writing tSQLt test cases, developers can create fake tables and views based on production data, then compare expected ...

Last week, Microsoft announced it would begin open-sourcing Visual Studio Test, its unit testing system, as an open source project as well.