What is the function of the DBMDL File in VS database project

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Jet Basrawi picture Jet Basrawi · Sep 3, 2010 · Viewed 43.6k times · Source

What is the function of the DBMDL file in a visual studio database project?

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Cameron McGrane picture Cameron McGrane · Sep 22, 2010

From what I can make out, it is a serialized file of your db model and is used as a cache for improving the performance of deployment. It is unique per user thus should not be checked into source control.

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