Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Integrating SSMS with Source Control

SSMS has the capability to integrate database project files into a source control solution. Source control provides a means for protecting and managing files. Source control applications typically contain features that allow you to track changes to files, control and track who uses the files, and provide a means for tagging the files with a version stamp so that the files can be retrieved at a later time, by version.

SSMS can integrate with a number of different source control applications. Visual SourceSafe is Microsoft’s basic source control solution, but other source control applications can be used instead. The source control client application must be installed on the machine on which SSMS is running. ...