Where do I find the SSIS tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate? I'm at a new job so new computer / new setup / new everything. I can't find them anywhere! Is there a specific edition of SQL Server that includes these tools?
The DB is SQL Server 2005, SSMS is 2008, VS is 2010.
It is not yet available in Visual Studio 2010.
"First of all, thank you to those customers who have offered feedback
regarding how your work and productivity are impacted by Integration
Services (SSIS) not yet being available in Visual Studio 2010. As
developers ourselves, we certainly understand the frustration you have
reported in having two Visual Studio instances installed and
maintained on your development machines. While this side-by-side
configuration works, it is certainly a less ideal solution to
operating SSIS from within VS 2010. Unfortunately, the staggered ship
cycles of the two products (VS and SSIS) and some convoluted
dependencies did not allow us to reunite the development environments
of both tools until the next version of SQL Server.
Meanwhile, please be assured that SSIS projects continue to be
supported by Visual Studio both now and into the foreseeable future.
Until the next version of SQL Server, we will be happy to discuss with
any Visual Studio 2010 customer ways in which they can optimize the
interoperability of VS and SSIS. We apologize for any inconvenience
and are committed to improving your user experience both now and in
the future."
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I want to create a SQL Database project and manage my database as code (e.g. DevOps), but I am not sure what tools I can use for free within an enterprise.
How do I install and use SSDT without requiring paid licensing and violating any EULAs, such as Visual Studio Community Edition's?
In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1M in annual revenue) no use is permitted...
This Microsoft article states that I can use SSDT in VS2019, but it doesn't tell me how to install it and not violate EULA.
This SSDT Download page is unhelpful and does not provide anything about licensing.
Also, I considered other tools, but looking at docs they don't seem comparable to SSDT:
Azure Data Studio - (cross-platform) new preview extension SQL Database Project supports DACPAC. I wasn't happy with my previous trial of this product. Maybe I'll give it another try in a couple years.
VS Code: Does not appear to have any extensions that directly support a SQL Database Project and/or DACPAC
Thanks to all of the answers, but I think I found what I was looking for in the Visual Studio Community Edition license: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/mlt031819/
My understanding, is that this allows me to use Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition for SSDT tools in an enterprise setting.
You don't have to install SSDT in Visual Studio 2019, even in Community. Go to new project and type SQL and hit return. It will say something like "SQL Server Database Project". Guess what? That's SSDT. In older versions, it was a separate install. It is now part of the core Visual Studio. And you upgrade it, if there are any, the same way you do anything else.
Already installed Visual Studio? No problem. Reopen the installer and install the data tools. This can be part of the payloads they have (I forget which one, but it has to do with data) or you can click on the tab that allows you to install individual components and search for the SQL tools. Once installed, they are there.
I don't belie you can install using the SSDT separate installer anymore, just like you know handle all of the .NET Core installs in Visual Studio, rather than separate. Kathleen Dollard outlined this in one of her posts last year (not SSDT, but .NET Core, etc.), so it has been a bit more than a year these things got folded into the installer. Core may still allow download and install? Not sure. But SSDT is the SQL project in 2019.
I guess that you can use SSDT anywhere where you can use Visual Studio. In other words, if you can use Visual Studio - you can use SSDT as well. Now the question - can you use Visual Studio? Here is the link to pdf document describing their Licensing policy.
Here is the snapshot from there:
Visual Studio Community 2019 is a free,
full-featured IDE for any developer building non-enterprise apps
across any platform or device. It includes all the capabilities needed
to create compelling non-enterprise applications, including powerful
productivity features, mobile development tools for Windows, iOS and
Android, and access to thousands of extensions.
Who can use the Software
Rights to use Visual Studio Community depend on the customer
segment and usage scenarios as explained below.
Individual developers
Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their
own free or paid apps. In addition, any number of users may use the
software to develop and test device drivers for the Windows operating
system.
Organizations
• An unlimited number of users within an
organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following
scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research,
or for contributing to open source projects.
• Any number of users may use the software to develop and test device drivers for the Windows operating system.
•For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise
organizations up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In
enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1M in
annual revenue) no use is permitted for employees as well as
contractors beyond the open source, academic research and classroom
learning environment scenarios described above
VS Code - is the text/development editor that have nothing for SSDT, you can work with SSDT projects like with files and folders. You won't be able to build/validate/deploy the project.
ADS - the text/development editor that was created on the base of VS Code to work with SQL Server databases. You can do some basic stuff for SSDT projects (build, deploy, compare, add/remove objects), but is not so powerful as Studio SSDT version yet.
Technically you need only MSBuild and SQLPackage to build and deploy dacpacs, so if these tools can be used for free in Enterprise, then you can technically do everything without the Studio, just with ADS or in hard-core way - with any editor if your knowledge is deep enough to generate proper sqlproj (xml) file.
What are the differences between SSDT and SSDT- Business Intelligence?
I've installed SQL Server 2017 and then proceeded to download Business Intelligence Development Studio but found out that it was replaced by SSDT/SSDT-BI (don't know the difference if there's any).
Do I need just SSDT or SSDT-BI? I can only find SSDT-BI for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, not for VS 2017 while SSDT for VS 2017 is available.
Will this create any problems since I'm working with SQL Server 2017?
I'm a complete beginner at all this and this is only for a uni project. Please keep answers as simple as possible. Thank you very much.
There is only SSDT nowadays, which includes support for SQL Server Database, SSRS, SSRS, and SSIS projects. The download links are here. The current SSDT version (15.5.2 as of this writing) allows you to target SQL Azure Database, SQL Server 2017, as well as older versions so you don't need multiple versions of SSDT installed.
SSDT will install a minimal Visual Studio shell if VS is not already installed. If you already have VS installed, those project types will be added to the existing installation.
EDIT:
With Visual Studio 2019, SSDT for SQL Server database projects remains intregrated into the VS 2019 installer. Select the Data Storage and processing workload during install and choose SQL Server Data Tools. However, SAS, SSIS, and SSRS SSDT projects are now moved to separate Visual Studio extensions. These extensions can be manged post install from within Visual Studio under Extensions-->Manage Exentsions.
Yeah, this got a lot of people confused. According to this link (VS2012 & VS2013 timeframe):
SSDT is for building databases ONLY i.e. only base functionality.
SSDT-BI is for building SSIS/SSAS/SSRS solutions
But then it looks like from VS2015 onward they merged the two together into just SSDT, so after VS2013 there is no separate SSDT-BI install. I think.
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 have a MS-SQL database on a server and have decided to play around with source control for the database. I want to create a database project and include that project within my solution. Is there any way to "import" an existing database into a database project in Visual Studio 2008?
I have run a few searches but I haven't really found anything of substance yet. Any ideas will be welcome!
Thanks
Yes. If you have Visual Studio 2008 Team System, then the Database Edition GDR release 2 add-on is the way to go.
You can download from here: Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2
You can find a list of features here.
Also, Introducing New Features In The VSTS Database Edition GDR
Update: In response to poster's comment about not having the Team System version, you can still use the original Database Project that comes with Visual Studio, but it is not as fully featured as the new GDR R2 version.
Just to preface: I work in a small company that does ASP.NET development and uses SQL Server 2005 for all of our database needs.
I was curious as to what were the pros and cons of using Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio for our development on the database side (i.e. table creation, stored procedure writing, etc.).
Right now we perform all of our database tasks inside Management Studio and I was wondering if there was some benefit to using Visual Studio instead. Would it make it easier to keep track of procedure changes and other modifications to the database (whether that is through Visual Studio itself or through some type of source control (planning on implementing subversion soon).
I don't personally have problems working with Management Studio but if it would be more efficient and more controllable through Visual Studio in ways that I am just not familiar with I would love to hear about it.
EDIT: I just wanted to note that my specific development environments are SQL Sever 2005, Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition. We do not have team foundation server or any other extras running or installed.
My personal method is to use SQL MS for all the design-related stuff (schema design, diagrams, keys, indexes, etc.), but to craft all my stored procedures, functions and the like in Visual Studio in a "Database" project attached to my solution -- mainly because it lets me keep the procs better version-controlled that way (as I find they generally change more often than the schema), and I find it's particularly handy using the context menus in VS to run the procs on my test and staging machines directly, since I do that so often.
IMHO one big advantage to using the management studio is "script as". To my knowledge there is no equivalent in VS.
Visual Studio 2010 has made some pretty nice upgrades to the SQL Server projects and solutions. Read more here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160407003056/http://leonardwoody.com/2011/08/27/introduction-to-visual-studio-database-management/
I used Management Studio for all of the SQL work earlier, but of late I've found that the in-house SQL manager of Visual Studio is pretty good too. I am using it more and more for running quick query checks, and modifications to the database scheme.
It's got a great feature of SQL indenting, and I've found it pretty helpful. In my view it beats SQL coloring of Management studio.
That's a difficult question. I guess it would depend on exactly what you're doing. If you're building DALs and stuff, it would probably be easier to use VS, since there's some nice integration (drag-and-drop, etc.). VS is probably adequate for 95% of your daily db activity.
But as someone already mentioned, you don't get the "Script As" helpers (which I use all of the time). You also won't get much (if anything) in the way of user management tools (logons, etc.). And as far as I know, there is no way to manage indexes via Visual Studio. You don't get anything with regard to importing/exporting data either.
For me Data Dude (aka Database Edition of Visual Studio 2008 Team System) has been a big game changer in terms of doing the very things your question addresses: keeping "track of procedure changes and other modifications to the database." Not only can your team as a whole keep track of changes between various shared-environments, but through source control each team member can track his or her own differences relative to all of the shared environments. This makes database code truly code, with all of the attendant benefits.
Further, it's a snap to reconcile differences between databases and have the tool automatically generate the code that would reconcile those differences. Ideally database code would be released right out of source control, just as ASP.NET code would typically be done. Data Dude greatly lessens the effort to achieve this parity.
The one negative is the cost: Data Dude requires an upgrade to Team System for those on Visual Studio Pro. Fortunately, evidently Microsoft is going to roll this functionality into the "Developer" edition of Visual Studio 2010, which presumably will have similar pricing to Visual Studio 2008 Pro.