Does SQL Server 2012 include Visual Studio?
P.S. I don't mean to be an idiot, but I can't find the answer to this.
No, it does not include Visual Studio. If you do a full install with all the client tools you get some bare minimum shell stuff but that is just scaffolding to support things like Management Studio. Visual Studio proper is a separate product and must be licensed separately.
No, it doesn't come with Visual Studio.
SQL Server is a database server. The install media comes with some tooling, like SQL Server Management Studio.
Visual Studio is an IDE, an Integrated Development Environement. It can connect to SQL Server and used when developing database driven applications.
But the two are orthogonal.
It will come with Business Intelligence Design Stuido, commonly known as BIDS, which is built around the Visual Studio framework.
If you need a dev evnironment, you can check out Visual Studio Express
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I want to start devleoping SSIS packages. I want to do this in Visual Studio Business Intelligence Integration Services developer.
It looks like Business intelligence is only available for Visual Studio 2013 at the latest. I currently have Visual Studio 2015 Community.
I have SQL Server 2014 and SQL server 2014 Management studio installed. In order to get SSIS packages will I have to install SQL Server data tools 2014?
After that will have I to install Visual Studio 2013 Community and Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2013?
Is this all I need to create an SSIS Business Intelligence Project in Visual Studio?
SSDT comes wrapped with sql server editions but SSIS and SSAS aren't included with express editions (SSRS is). Developer edition might be appropriate for you.
The installation process will ask you what you want to install.I have never been able to get any of the editions to "work" with WIN home editions - professional or above, fine. When choosing a version of an edition simple rule of thumb is biggest for best for your architecture. For a presentation layer I would also get the excel add ins Power query and power pivot (if you have excel) and if you are thinking of getting to grips with dashboarding have a look at Power BI, Tableau, Qlikview all of which are free or have community editions.
Short question, I hope the answer is will be also short.
I'm a starting BI developer and we make a lot of use of Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Data tools (SSDT, previously BIDS). SSDT is a Visual Studio shell with components catered towards BI-centric solutions. I've always installed SSDT from a SQL Server installation.
I'm now doing a Visual Studio 2012 installation and notice an option to install SSDT. A quick search on Google only yielded a difference that SQL Server 2012 installs Visual Studio 2010 shell instead of 2012. Is there any other difference in installing SSDT from SQL Server or from Visual Studio?
Any and all help is welcome.
I'm a starting BI-developer and we make allot of use of Microsoft SQL
Server and SQL Server Data tools (SSDT, previously BIDS).
Ah. No. SSDT and BIDS are not the same. SSDT are a plugin into visual studio for SQL Server development, adding mostly the SQL Server Database Project which allows versioning and development of sql code in visual studio (as in: Stored procedures, table schemata etc.). BIDS is the visual studio version for - Analytics service, Integration Services and Reporting Services.
And SQL Server BIDS is most of the time built on an older version - for the 2012 Shell IIRC you need the 2014 server..... and the concurrent modern version of VS is 2013.
BIDS is NOT SSDT.
I was wondering if Visual Studio comes with SQL database? or do I have to install SQL server additionally in order to use it with Visual Studio?
I need it to store and manipulate data from textboxes and other controls in WinForms.
The VS2010 installer gives you the option of installing SQL Server 2008 Express Edition.. This edition is good enough for development purposes but is not intended for production use to be honest..
I guess it depends how serious you're going with it, you should definitely install the "full" SQL Server Development Edition if it's gonna be some serious database dev.
This project I'm working on has me using SQL Server 2008 R2 which I'm pretty new to. I have the full version of SQL Server and, SSIS, SSAS etc. What I don't know anything about is reporting services. I can connect to the report server but I don't see anyway to actually build reports. This is all in management studio, by the way. Is there a GUI interface for building reports? I have to assume that this software is distinct from SSMS?
You have to install BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio). It's in your SQL Server setup. Maybe you already did, have a look in your Visual Studio directory in your start menu.
yes its possible to install that way.
Business Intelligence Development Studio is a must to USE SSIS feature.
I have both SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 installed and think it would be really nice to have SQL Management Studio integrated directly within Visual Studio. Is there a way to make that happen? What about in VS 2010 with SQL Server 2008?
I find the Visual Studio Server Explorer window to be much slower too than the Object Browser in SQL Server's Management Studio... it would be nice to never really need to use the Server Explorer.
Why would a SQL Server DBA want to install Visual Studio ??
BTW: the SQL Server Management Studio shell really is Visual Studio behind the covers....
The only long way I can think of is by creating a custom Visual Studio plugin that starts SQL Management window finds it HWND subclasses it and changes it's parent to a control on your Visual Studio Plugin dialog.
If you build it i'd use it :)
The short answer is that they are separate products sold separately (different target audiences).
With that being said, it would be nice if there was some kind of SQL Server Management Studio plugin for Visual Studio instead of having to have 2 different apps open.