Continous Integration and the Database

Spend some few days setting up a continous integration for a database project. Found some stuff on the internet but they got it all wrong :)

I am using Team Foundation Server 2008.

The only thing you need to do is modify the TFSBuild.proj

Modify the following sections. This enabled the automatic generation of a sql script that will be copied in the Drop Folder.
Find the SoltionToBuild tag and add the properties as shown below:

<SolutionToBuild Include="$(BuildProjectFolderPath)/../../CIDB/CIDB.sln">
<Targets></Targets>
<Properties>DefaultDataPath=C:\BuildDrop\;TargetDataBase=TestDb</Properties>
</SolutionToBuild>

Add the default configuration to the ConfigurationToBuild ItemGroup as shown below (make sure to match it to your settings in the Configuration Manager)
<ItemGroup>
<!-- CONFIGURATIONS
The list of configurations to build. To add/delete configurations, edit this value. For example,
to add a new configuration, add the following lines:

<ConfigurationToBuild Include="Debugx86">
<FlavorToBuild>Debug</FlavorToBuild>
<PlatformToBuild>x86</PlatformToBuild>
</ConfigurationToBuild>

The Include attribute value should be unique for each ConfigurationToBuild node.
-->
<ConfigurationToBuild Include="ReleaseAny CPU">
<FlavorToBuild>Release</FlavorToBuild>
<PlatformToBuild>Any CPU</PlatformToBuild>
</ConfigurationToBuild>

<!--Include the configuration to build this generates a .sql file in the drop folder-->
<ConfigurationToBuild Include="DefaultAnyCPU">
<FlavorToBuild>Default</FlavorToBuild>
<PlatformToBuild>Any CPU</PlatformToBuild>
</ConfigurationToBuild>
</ItemGroup>

Next add the following section to the end of the TFSBuild.proj file. the %3B is the escape character for ';' in MSBuild

<PropertyGroup>

<TargetConnection>Data Source=.%3BIntegrated Security=True%3BPooling=False</TargetConnection>
<DefaultDataPath>C:\BuildDrop\</DefaultDataPath>
<TargetDataBase>DevDb</TargetDataBase>
</PropertyGroup>


<Target Name="AfterDropBuild">
<MSBuild Projects="$(SolutionRoot)\CIDB\CIDB\CIDB.dbproj"
Properties="Configuration=Default;
OutDir=$(SolutionRoot)\..\binaries\Default\;
AlwaysCreateNewDatabase=false;
TargetConnectionString=$(TargetConnection);
DefaultDataPath=$(DefaultDataPath);
TargetDataBase=$(TargetDataBase)"
Targets="ReBuild;Deploy" /> <!—Need to specify the Rebuild target otherwise fails -->
</Target>

Update:

If you modify your source folder setting in the workspace - defaults to $(SourceDir)- make sure that you override your SolutionRoot property

by adding the following

...

</ProjectExtensions>
<PropertyGroup>

<SolutionRoot>C:\Workspace_Build02 </SolutionRoot>

....

Thats all there is to it :)



Coming up automatically generate an upgrade script to deploy to production systems... I installed the Database Team Edition on the build agent but I am not quite sure if its necessary I will investigate this... I dont know if its default part of ms build