Introducing SQL projects in SSMS: A new Database DevOps workflow | Data Exposed

Published: 16 April 2026
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You have a database in production. How do you get it into source control — and keep it there? With SSMS 22.5, you can now import your database into a SQL project — a code-based, human-readable definition of your schema — edit and validate without impacting the original database, and publish changes with confidence. In this Data Exposed episode, we introduce SQL projects in SSMS with the new Database DevOps workload in preview. We'll also show how the same project file works across VS Code, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps — so your database development process can grow with your team across any tool.

0:00 Introduction
2:13 Demos
12:00 What's next

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