I need to work on SSRS and for that I would need BIDS. I have installed SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition with Advanced features, also I have VS2008 installed.
How can I get BIDS installed on my machine?
You need to install SQL Server 2008 Express With Tools in order to get the BIDS extensions into Visual Studio 2008.
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Which version of Visual Studio and SSDT-BI I need to use to create and deploy a SSIS project for SQL server 2008 R2?
You have to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to deploy package for SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server R2 by default. (newer versions will not work correctly)
This Link contains very helpful informations:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/install-windows/installing-integration-services-versions-side-by-side
There are a lot of links saying that newer versions of visual studio cannot deploy SSIS 2008 packages correctly:
Can SQL Server Data Tools work with SQL Server 2008 SSIS?
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/bff5e145-1c63-4221-b2ba-009ea96a9e05/can-i-use-vs2012-to-create-and-deploy-ssis-for-sql2008r2?forum=sqlintegrationservices
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1560322-364-1.aspx
But in theory, You can create SSIS 2008 package using Visual Studio 2012 or 2013. if you decide to try this you can refer to this link it may help
I have Visual Studio 2012 installed on my development machine (DEV), and there is an SQL Server 2008 R2 database which is hosted on another server (DATASERVER). Now, I have installed SSRS on DATASERVER.
Now, I want to design SSRS reports from my DEV machine. Any idea of which tool I should install on my DEV machine for this? I know there was BIDS for Visual Studio 2008, not sure how can I do for Visual Studio 2012.
Any help on this much appreciated.
Thanks
If you have Visual Studio 2012 installed you can get Data Tools from this link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36843
Then you can open "Data tools for Visual Studio 2012" and create your project from there.
Business studio development studio was in sql server 2008 and also in sql server 2012 you can use Data Tools.
It is a part of visual studio that has reporting service,analysis service, and integration service parts.
Yes, there are many "Questions that may already have [my] answer" on StackOverflow, however, they refer to older versions of Visual Studio, or SQL Express, or SQL Enterprise Manager.
I'd like to know the correct install sequence for SQL Server Developer Edition (2012) and Visual Studio 2013. Additionally, since Visual Studio 2013 has a Develop for SQL Server option, which I believe installs some SQL functionality into Visual Studio, do I choose that option or not? Choosing that option appears to install SQL Express, which I do not want.
SQL Server Developer Edition (2012)
Visual Studio 2013
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools
I have installed VS2012 and SqlServer2012 in my machine.
I have installed sql server data tools 2012 in other to enable BI project in my VS environment.
Now, I'm having a project which the project requirement is using BIDS 2008.
The question is :
Can I install only the BIDS 2008 side by side with my BIDS 2012 along in my machine?
How can I fix this situation?
You can install both side-by-side, but you will have to ensure that your SQL 2008 install is slipstreamed with SP3 to ensure it will install on Windows 8.
Windows8 supported SQL Server versions: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2012/09/01/installing-sql-server-on-windows-8.aspx
How to slipstream SQL 2008 installer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955392
Ideally, I want to make SSDT/SSIS packages on my desktop PC that I can test and deploy to a production server environment.
On my PC I have:
Windows 7
Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2010 (shell)
SQL Server Express 2012 (local dev copy of prod)
[supposedly] BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio) and SSDT (SQL SErver Data Tools) etc.
On my production server I have:
Windows Server 2008
SQL Server 2012
Visual Studio 2010 (shell)
I cannot load/run SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) onto my machine because SQL Server express doesn't allow for it, as suggested by these articles:
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=963070
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx#SSIS
And I am getting this error when trying to look at a "package.dtsx" file in VS:
Microsoft Visual Studio is unable to load this document: To design
Integration Services packages in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). SSDT
has to be installed by one of these editions of SQL Server 2012:
Standard. Enterprise. Developer, or Evaluation. To install SSDT, run
SQL Server Setup and select SQL Server Data Tools.
When I run the SQL2012Express installer, it says SSDT is installed already.
Question #1: But why can't I just point a local VS2010/SSDT/SQL2012Express at my production SQL2012 environment? (Microsoft is getting their money legitimately!)
Question #2: I can get it to work on the production server, but isn't it bad form to develop on a production server? (and it complicates source control etc.)
You must have One of those versions installed. The SQL server express edition with advanced tools only includes reporting. Not ssis. Sql serverv dev edition is actually pretty cheap.
To be able to create SSIS packages you'd want the following:
1) For SQLServer 2008 SSIS packages - BIDS, either integrated into VS2010 or as a stand-alone. If you also want SQL server, then I'd use the dev edition of SQLServer that is an optional install with VS2010.
2) For SQLServer 2012 SSIS packages - download and install SSDT, either integrated into VS2012 as as a stand-alone. If you also want SQL server, then I'd use localDB (here).
Also, SSDT is two things - an improved replacement for 'Data Dude' AND the new BIDS - here's a blog with explanation.
"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 does not support Business Intelligence Development Studio Integration Services, Report Services and Analysis Services projects for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2. To work around this issue, you can install Visual Studio 2008 alongside Visual Studio 2010 on the same machine and then open the Business Intelligence Development Studio projects in Visual Studio 2008."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173767%28v=sql.105%29.aspx
Guess this means: NO BIDS projects are possible under VS 2010.