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I've recently encountered some confusion regarding one of the new components of SQL Server 2012, the SQL Server Data Tools AKA SSDT. From the questions in the MSDN SQL Server forum which I moderate, I realized that the distinction between SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and SSDT is not clear enough to many. I have to agree that Microsoft did leave some space for confusion and a lot of duplicate functionality in both tools so let's try to clear up a bit of this confusion.
Before SQL Server 2012, the only management / development tool that shipped with SQL Server as part of the installation was SSMS. SSMS actually serves 2 main purposes - Management and development. You can manage all your SQL Server instances using graphical tools, wizards and using T-SQL. SSMS also included the visual schema designers (A separate blog topic..), Query designers, scripting features and many others that are used by both DBAs and developers.
What a lot of DBAs didn't know, that since 2007, Visual Studio (in some versions) offered a complementary database development tool called 'Visual Studio Team System Edition for Database Professionals'. A short and friendly name if you abbreviate it to VSTSEDBP. This project was the baby of Gert E. Drapers that gave it its more common name, 'Data Dude'. Data dude was built to help developers use their familiar and comfortable VS environments while allowing integration of the database development into the VS ALM (Application Lifecycle Management). Data Dude offered schema and object creation using database projects inside VS, off line 'virtualized' development without an actual SQL Server instance, unit testing, data generation capabilities, schema and data compare features, code review, smart debugging and of course the ability to deploy these projects along with the application while maintaining strict version control - a term most production DBAs only heard of theoretically.
SSDT is actually an evolution of data dude. Microsoft seized the opportunity to kill 3 birds with one stone here. The 'less than expected' adoption of data dude and VSTE in general, the every tightening integration of VS infrastructure into the SQL Server tools and the highly accelerated investment in SQL Azure all led to the decision to provide SSDT as a free tool for all SQL Server users with SQL Server 2012. The FAQ page says 'SSDT provides a modern database development experience for the SQL Server and SQL Azure Database Developer. As the supported SQL Azure development platform, SSDT will be regularly updated online to ensure that it keeps pace with the latest SQL Azure features.'. With VS 11 (still in beta), 'SSDT will both replace and provide conversion capability for existing Visual Studio database projects'.
Microsoft provides a clear and concise explanation of the use cases of SSDT for developers and DBAs:
'SSDT is for SQL Server database developers, who often develop database schemas, views, stored procedures, and other database objects while developing their application logic.
- Tooling for both SQL Server and SQL Azure Development:
SSDT offers new capabilities in a single cohesive environment to compile, refactor, and deploy databases to specific editions of SQL Server and SQL Azure. Digimon world 3 save files psx games. The toolset makes it easy, for example, to migrate on-premise SQL Server schemas to the cloud on SQL Azure, and develop and maintain databases across both on premise and cloud deployments. SSDT can target SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, and SQL Azure databases, including all editions of these database servers.
- For SQL Server DBAs:
SSDT provides a central and unified toolset targeted to the specific needs of DBAs to develop and maintain databases, with visual tools for developing tables, schema compare, and rich T-SQL support for refactoring databases, building views, stored procedures, functions and triggers. The toolset provides both a live development mode, and an offline project mode that tracks and manages all artifacts associated with a database. This mode optionally fully integrates with Visual Studio 2010 for team development, source control and change tracking. All change operations are automatically transformed into optimized T-SQL alter scripts, and can optionally be applied immediately to the online database or saved for later execution.'
It also answers the natural question - 'Is SSDT a replacement for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)'?
Well - not really.. 'SSMS is targeted at core administration of connected databases, and will continue to be a part of SQL Server, and a core component of SQL Server 2012. As such, SSMS will continue to be the graphical tool for such tasks as creating and managing database backups, creating and viewing extended events, and other such central DBA administration tasks for production databases.'
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So, although currently there is definitely some significant overlap between SSMS and SSDT which was left intentionally to allow users to gradually become familiar with the new SSDT, we can expect future releases to remove some of this overlap until some day, not too far ahead, we will have 2 distinct tools - SSMS for online instance management, and SSDT for development.
If you are into database development, I highly recommend you to install and learn how to use SSDT. It will make your life easier in many ways.
In a long overdue move Microsoft has drastically changed the installation process for SQL Server Data Tools with the SQL Server 2016 release. In the past, SQL Server Data Tools was the name of two separate and quite different products. One of them was the descendant of the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) which was last officially part of the SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 release. The other was the descendant of a project called Data Dude. In spite of sharing the same moniker, each of these tools had very different purposes. The BIDS project became known as SQL Server Data Tools-BI (SSDT-BI) and it was used to develop Analysis Services projects, Integration Services packages and Reporting Services reports – all vital to SQL Server BI subsystems. The Data Dude project became known as just SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and it was used for data and schema compare as well as versioning and other database development.
Trine 3 the artifacts of power 1.1.1. With the SQL Server 2016 release the former Data Dude capabilities have been incorporated into the main Visual Studio family and the BIDS feature set is now the new SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).
Supported SQL Server and Windows Versions
SSDT 2016 supports development for a number of different SQL Server releases including:
- Relational databases — SQL Server 2005 though SQL Server 2016, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL Server 2005 is officially at the end of support)
- Analysis Services — SQL Server 2008 through SQL Server 2016
- Reporting Services — SQL Server 2008 through SQL Server 2016
- Integration Services –SQL Server 2012 through SQL Server 2016
SSDT 2016 can run on the following operating systems:
- Windows 10 (x86 and x64)
- Windows 8, 8.1 (x86 and x64)
- Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and x64)
- Windows Server 2012 (x64), R2 (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)
Installing SQL Server Data Tools
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Getting the new SSDT is now more straightforward than in earlier releases as well. You can download SSDT directly from Download SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) or you can also download it using the Install SQL Server Data Tools link on the SQL Server 2016 Installation Center. You can see the SQL Server Installation Center’s installation option for SQL Server Data Tools in Figure 1.
Figure 1 – Downloading SQL server Data Tools from the SQL Server Installation Center
Clicking the Install SQL Server Data Tools link opens a browser window and takes you to the Download SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) dialog that you can see in Figure 2. This is the direct download page that was mentioned earlier.
Figure 2 – SQL Server Data Tools Download Page
Clicking on the Download SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2015 here! will display the second download page that you can see in Figure 3.
Figure 3 – SQL Server Data Tools Download Page 2
This page enables you to optionally create an installation point on a network share or you can simply scroll down and select the download image you want to install. In Figure 3 you can see that the English language image has been selected. You will then be prompted to open or save the ISO image. By default, saving the SSDT_14.60629.0_EN.iso image will copy it into the system’s Downloads directory. After the download completes clicking Open launches a Windows File Explorer window which will have expanded the ISO file. Then you can run the SSDTSETUP.EXE program to start the SSDT 2016 setup process that you can see in Figure 4.
Figure 4 – Running the SSDT Installer
The first SSDT 2016 installation screen enables you to select the different features you want to install. By default all of the boxes are checked. Clicking Next displays the Microsoft Software License Terms dialog that you can see in Figure 5.
Figure 5 – Accepting the License Terms and Installing SSDT 2016
Check the I agree to license terms and conditions box and then click on Install to begin the SSDT 2016 installation process. The installer will run through a number of steps including installing SQL Server LocalDB, the SQL Server DB OLE DB Providers and the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Integrated Shell.
When you first open up SSDT 2016 you get to choose your Visual Studio color theme as well as the type of development environment you want to use. The default color theme is blue and the default development environment is general. When SSDT 2016 first launches it will open the SQL Server LocalDB instance. You can then connect to your other SQL Server instances.
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Selecting the File, New, Project option will display the SSDT project templates that you can see in Figure 6. To start a new project simply select one of the templates and give it a name. SSDT will add a new project to the Solutions dialog and you can begin working on your BI project.
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Figure 6 – SSDT 2016 Project Templates Ncomputing vspace for windows 7 server 6 6 9 1 zip.