A couple of months ago I first wrote about an open source project that I started called MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj. Since then it has gained some traction and I’m happy to say it is probably the most succesful open source project I’ve launched ever. So I though this would be a good time to give an update on the project and share some of the things that are new. If you’re unfamiliar with the project I recommend reading the announcement blog post first.

At my current employer, R&R Workforce Management, we’ve done a pretty big investment on Microsoft’s SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) to manage our database changes. We made that decision when we migrated off of the Oracle database onto SQL Server which is quite a few years back now. At the time it was probably the most mature tool available that allowed us to version control our database changes much like we version controlled all our source code.