I've got an issue with an SSRS 2012 report rendering differently between environments and I'm pretty sure that it is down to SSRS being at a different patch level. However, the one that works is on 11.0.2332 and the one that doesn't work is on 11.0.5058. This is a problem as we don't want to downgrade the server upon which it doesn't work! My next thought was to see if the version of SSRS tools that I am using to edit the report might be on a patch level that produces a report that renders fine on 11.0.2332 but not on 11.0.5058. To throw more spice into the mix, my tools are version 11.0.3402! I get this from VS 2012 Help->About. I'd like to get those tools up the same level as the server upon which it isn't working (11.0.5058) in the hope that editing the report with the patched tools will make the report work on 11.0.5058. I installed SQL Server SP2 on my dev box but this did not upgrade the tools. I haven't been able to find the relevant package that will do this upgrade. Any ideas?
Thanks
Found it! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36843 - Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools - Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012
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I have installed SQL Server 2014 and Visual Studio Professional 2015. So, does that mean it already has SSMS pre-installed with it, or it needs to be done separately.
My need is: Report generation using SSMS, from data coming from query behind SQL Server.
So, what needs to be exactly done to configure SSMS into SQL Server with VS 2015.
Upon deep diving even more, got the answer.
Option One: Google for 'SQL Server Data Tools' installer, compatible with your VS. Run the Installer.
Option Two: Open Visual Studio 2015 - Tools > Extension and Updates. Find/Search for 'SQL Server Data Tools' update option. Run it.
I'm still not sure if there comes a complete package of Visual Studio along with Data Tools, but I don't think it does. As we still need to add certain packages into VS Installer as per need.
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
I am trying to open a solution file in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate that includes an Integration Services project (.dtproj). Unfortunately, the migration failed for reasons that are slightly baffling to me.
The migration report contains the following error:
RecommenderJobs.dtproj: The application which this project type is based on was not found. Please try this link for further information: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?prd=12395&pver=11&sbp=ProjectTypeDeprecated&plcid=0x409&clcid=0x409&ar=MSDN&sar=ProjectCompatibility&o1=159641D6-6404-4A2A-AE62-294DE0FE8301
Unfortunately, the link appears to be dead, so that's no help.
I also received the following error message when I tried to open this in Visual Studio 2012:
I've tried opening this solution in both Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate and Visual Studio 2013 Premium (which is why I tagged both). Both are on Update 5. I already tried updating all of my extensions and updates, even ones that seem like they wouldn't be directly relevant to the problem (like Visual Studio's Office tools).
I found a similar question on Microsoft's forum. The suggestion there was to upgrade my version of SSIS to the latest version. I tried to install SSDT for VS2013 as suggested, but the install failed:
When I checked the logs, it had the following error:
Error 0x80070666: Cannot install a product when a newer version is installed.
I do, in fact, have a different version installed, but it's not actually newer as far as I can tell (in fact, it launches in the Visual Studio 2010 shell), so I'm a little confused by this. The version information is below:
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Designer
Version 11.0.5058.0
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers
Version 11.0.5058.0
I do also have tools related to SQL Server 2012 installed.
Based on what I've read in other posts, I'd expect to see the SQL Server Data Tools in "Add/Remove Programs," but it's not. Does anyone know why that might be?
I've also seen related questions for other types of projects, such as for a PowerShell project. (Obviously, my question has nothing to do with Powershell, but the OP there was receiving the same exact error message for a different project type). Unfortunately, the suggestions on that post didn't seem all that helpful - for example, the accepted answer there involved completely uninstalling and reinstalling Visual Studio, which would be a major pain to say the least. I'm also not all that confident that that would work for me since this problem occurs in two separate versions of Visual Studio.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I could try?
You likely need to install both Integration services and Business Intelligence for Visual Studio (BIDS). You can do it launching SQL Server Setup and adding features to your current SQL Server Instance.
Have a look at this one: https://guruprasadv.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/opening-ssis-package-in-visual-studio/
BIDS is the IDE (integrated into Visual Studio) that allows you to drag and drop the components and create the SSIS packages. From SQL Server 2014 on wards you won't see BIDS anymore packaged in the SQL Server Setup, so you will have to install it independently. If you need it for VS 2013 here you have the link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42313
I have a new laptop with Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise and SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.1 installed on it. I want to develop SSIS & SSRS projects using this setup, but I am having a hard time getting the Business Intelligence templates to show up in VS.
I installed the SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2015 from here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/mt186501.aspx
This installation seemed to work, but the BI templates still did not appear in VS.
After this was installed, I started up the SQL 2016 installation again to see if I could add this as a feature in the installation. It was not an option in the Feature Selection area. I tried both the "Perform new installation of SQL" and "Add feature to an existing instance" options during the setup wizard.
What am I missing here? In doing some research, it seems like these BI templates should be available for VS 2015. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!
Go to Tools > Extensions and Updates... Under the Updates tab, you'll find Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Update.
SSDT is updated separately from SQL Server itself. In the past, SSDT BI was a separate project as well. Integrating both toolsets is a work in progress. The latest SSDT version is the November 2015 preview which supports SSIS, SSAS, SSRS for SQL Server 2016 preview but only SSAS, SSRS for previous versions.
SSDT doesn't actually require SQL Server, only Visual Studio, and will install no matter which version of SQL Server you have installed (if any).
I found the solution in another forum. This issue has to do with using the "preview" version of SQL 2016. Use this link to download the SSDT for this version:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/mt429383
Hope this helps someone else...
In VS 2015:
Select Tools -> Extensions & Updates
A console opens. On the LHS, you will see 3 tabs - Installed, Online & Updates
Select Updates -> Product Updates -> Choose Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Update.
This might be a trivial error in my setup but I cannot seem to find where I went wrong in stalling SSDT 2013 with SQl Server and having the open to create a new database template
please see image
what I expect to be in the list in a sql template with the option to create a new database project
could someone tell me what i'm missing ?
Thanks in advance
For database projects you'll need to install a version of Visual Studio that supports it - in your case it looks like you ran the standalone SSDT-BI installer which installs SSIS, SSAS and SSRS templates. This doesn't include database project templates. What you need is to install one of the VS versions with support - there are 2 Express versions (Express for Web and Express for Windows Desktop) and 3 paid versions (Premium, Pro, Ultimate). Here is a quote from the SSDT blog post explaining this:
Visual Studio 2013 - VS 2013 now has SQL Server tooling built in and shipped as part of the core product. Database Projects, SQL tools (such as schema compare & data compare), and the online experiences through SSOX are all included with the RTM version. We have full project and SSOX support in VS Express for Web and Express for Windows Desktop, so we have discontinued our stand-alone integrated shell offering. We have a component update feed that will use VS Update to push notification to users. To manually check for updates, go to the Tools > Extensions and Updates... menu to open the dialog. We will continue to post announcements on our blog and forum that a release is available and what is included in that update.
What version of Visual Studio 2013 are you using? You need to have either the Ultimate, Premium or Pro version for SSDT (Link).
If you do have the right version of Visual Studio then you may need to re-run the installer and opt in to SQL Server Data Tools during setup.
I had this issue and resolved it several years ago. I needed to reinstall SSMS with Data Tools. Unfortunately I am encountering the same issue now, but luckily I had documented the issue at the time. I am finding that because there are newer versions of both VS and SSMS, it is hard to find the proper downloads.
From my documentation (3 years ago) None of the attempts to correct the Visual Studio install directly (SSDTBI_x86_ENU download from Microsoft) were successful, but once we did a complete reinstall of SQL Server 2014 which included the Data Tools, the needed template was available in the Add New Project dialog, and the previously incompatible projects found in GitHub******Report.sln were now compatible.