I’m excited to have just clicked ‘publish’ on four new videos in the brand new Advocate playlist on Redgate’s YouTube channel.
These videos step through setting up and working with a project in one of my favorite Redgate tools: SQL Change Automation.
I recently set up Redgate’s SQL Change Automation in Visual Studio 2017, and I ran into a confusing error when I started trying to use it. For any other folks out there searching on “Unknown SQL Server Platform,” here’s how I got past it.
Spoiler: Visual Studio suggested updating Microsoft’s SQL Server Data Tools, which failed for me and wasted a lot of time. Updating Visual Studio did fix my issue.
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