Though primarily targeted at IT pros, the scripts are helpful for developers, too, as pointed out recently by Jialiang Ge, who works at a sister project called the All-In-One Code Framework.

With SQL Server Data Tools, you can access data stored in SQL Server. Microsoft Visual Studio can be used to develop powerful applications for SQL Server, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure SQL ...

Microsoft tried: in the Microsoft .NET Framework era, things in the database tooling department grew, but also meandered a bit: The simple script-container database projects were brought forward into ...

I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality.

An open source project gives DBAs the ability to channel PowerShell for automating and scaling complex SQL Server tasks, starting with the most basic: database backups.

I've been using the Schema and Data Compare tools built into Visual Studio. They seem to work pretty nicely and will generate change scripts. Might be worth a look if you've already got Visual Studio.