I have installed Visual Studio Community Edition 2015. I have also installed the Integration Services features from here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/mt429383 (see point two). I am now able to create an integration services project. There are components available such as: Data Flow Task; For Loop Container etc.
However, there is no Fuzzy Lookup or Fuzzy Grouping. Why is this?
I only have SQL Server Express installed on this PC. Do I have to have SQL Server Enterprise? This seems to suggest that I do not: Why can I run SSIS Fuzzy Grouping from Visual Studio but not the deployed package?
The Fuzzy Lookup and Fuzzy Group components will only show up in the SSIS Toolbox panel when you are inside a Data Task. They are not relevant (and therefore not offered) when you are in Control Flow view of the package.
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I have SQL Server Management Studio. I've imported an excel file and learned how to write queries on the database. I'm interested in a report templates. I read about SSDT and assume that would be useful to me. When I click on File > New > Project, my options don't include the "Business Intelligence" menu items (i.e. Reporting Services).
The Microsoft page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/download-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt
Where I downloaded SSDT, specifically refers to "Visual Studio." Is that different than Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio? Will SSDT work with SS Management Studio, or do I need to downoad "Visual Studio" as well, or are they one in the same... a bit confused. Thanks for any guidance on this.
Cheers.
Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) are not the same thing. SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) only works within Visual Studio, and has nothing to do with SSMS. If you want to use what SSDT offers, you will need a compatible version of Visual Studio to do so.
Updated per request:
SSMS is used to do development around the SQL Server stack, where VS is an all around development tool that you can use to build applications in many programming languages.
Is used to be that SSDT was called Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS), and was more of a stand-alone thing; it was really off to the side of the SQL Server stack that business intelligence pros needed to get their work done. Now, with SSDT, MS has made is fit a little more with VS project templates, although you still have to download it separately.
You need SSDT to develop SSRS reports, SSAS cubes and SSIS packages, and it includes tools to help you deploy those things to the appropriate location when you are done with development.
Hope this helps you out!
Actually SSDT will include a scaled back version of Visual Studio that will allow you to create Integration Services packages, including an IDE to create and edit Script Components.
Read about it here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/download-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt#installing-ssdt-without-visual-studio-pre-installed
I do not see an option to create an SSIS project using Visual Studio 2017.
VS2017 supports ssis or ssrs projects if you install SSDT for VS2017 here.
Click on the newly downloaded file and check SSIS or SSRS components that you required, as show in diagram :-
Once you have installed this, try opening ssis / ssrs project. I managed to open ssis developed on vs2010.
You should see these component installed. (reboot if you don't see them).
Try open your project again. If you get 'incompatible project' - right click on your project, select "reload project" (not reopen the solution)
Information on this will probably get outdated fast because Microsoft is running to complete its work on this, but as today, June 9th 2017, support to create SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) projects on Visual Studio 2017 is not available. So, you can't see this option because so far it doesn't exist yet.
Beyond that, even installing what is being called SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) in VS 2017 installer (what seems very confusing from Microsoft's part, using a known name for a different thing, breaking the behavior we expect as users), you won't see SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) project templates as well.
Actually, the Business Intelligence group under the Installed templates on the New Project dialog won't be present at all.
You need to go to this page (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/download-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt) and install two separate installers, one for SSAS and one for SSRS.
Once you install at least one of these components, the Business Intelligence group will be created and the correspondent template(s) will be available. But as today, there is no installer for SSIS, so if you need to work with SSIS projects, you need to keep using SSDT 2015, for now.
I havent tried this scenario yet - I was scared off by the (unanswered) comments below the GA announcement blog post:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ssdt/2017/04/19/announcing-the-general-availability-ga-release-of-ssdt-17-0-april-2017/
I'll be staying on VS15 for a while ...
Integration Services project templates are now available in the latest release of SSDT for Visual Studio 2017.
Note: if you have recently installed SSDT for Visual Studio 2017. You need to remove the Reporting Services and Analysis Services installations before you proceed with installing SSDT.
There is no BI project in Visual Studio. Youll need to download SSDT. SSDT 2017 works fine :)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/download-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt
SSIS Integration with Visual Studio 2017 available from Aug 2017.
SSIS designer is now available for Visual Studio 2017! ARCHIVE
I installed in July 2018 and appears working fine. See Download link
Due to company policies it's not allowed to have some kind of Visual Studio version. Is it possible to design SSIS packages without have some kind of Visual studio version?
In my opinion. And correct me if i'm wrong:
SQL Server : This need to have an SSIS instance and a SQL instance. SQL for storing data (not really necessary if you use a difference target) and SSIS for deploy the package to and schedule the refresh of the packages.
Managment Studio : Not really needed, but handy to maintain the database.
Tool to create the SSIS package. This can be achieve by:
install data tools : this comes with a Visual Studio shell
install Visual Studio Community : comes with the ability to open and create SSIS projected. It can be deployed from there
install Visual Studio Prof : comes with the ability to open and create SSIS projects. It can be deployed from there
Data tools is free to use can be used commercially
Managment Studio is free and can use used commercially
VS Community is free but can't be used commercially (not even in a pilot)
VS Prof is not free and can be used commercially
SQL Server is not free and can be used commercially
Have you considered not using SSIS? I was in similar scenario as and have migrated to using Windows services (top shelf) deployed with octopus deploy. It's more testable, better deployment experience and it's just c#...Maintenance is much easier. In terms of performance we process ETLs 5 time faster now too.
Answer of this question is yes ,We can create package using the SQL Server .
Go to the database >Right click on the database>task>Inport or Export>and then there is import Export wizard open to create.
I hope you guys got answer how we can create package without using the Visual Studio.
In the past, I've used Visual Studio to create and deploy reports, but also check them into TFS for version control. Now we're moving away from VS and toward Report Builder and my concern is version history.
Is there any way for the Report Server Builder to integrate with TFS (check-in/out)? If not, have there been any solutions devised to handle source control?
Thanks!
EDIT: We're thinking of moving away from VS to Report Builder because of ease of use - just report building for power users. Let someone/something handle the check-ins to source control.
If you are using Visual Studio Data Tools (the SQL Server 2012 replacement for BIDS) you have wonderful integration with TFS. I am not sure about Report Builder.
I need a way to deploy the oracle database in a single click, something similar to SSDT projects.
Red Gate (where I work) has a set of deployment tools for Oracle, including version control, but they are not tightly integrated in Visual Studio. They were designed to be standalone as unlike for SQL Server, there are a handful of different IDEs in the Oracle scene, including Toad, SQL Developer and PL/SQL Developer.
The predecessor of SSDT had Oracle support via a Quest Extension, but this was discontinued with the release of SSDT.