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Visual Studio 2012 now supports BI! — 9 Comments

  1. Can the Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 work with SQL Server 2008 R2, or just SQL Server 2012 SP1? Other versions of SQL Server?

  2. I have now installed the new version of SSDT 2012 and am not finding SQL Server Database Projects as a project type anymore in my Shell version of VS 2012. That project type was available as a web install before. WHare has it gone? Is the full version of VS required to get it now?

  3. You said “Note that SSDT-BI is different than SSDT for Visual Studio 2012, which will not install the BI projects.”

    So what is the purpose of SSDT for Visual Studio 2012? I installed it and didn’t see much. There were no BI templates; only a “SQL Server Project” template. Also, there was a “SQL” item in the main menu, under which there was:
    – Schema Compare – good, not in SSMS as far as I know;
    – Transact-SQL editor.

    So what’s the point?
    and that was it

  4. James, can I get some advice on deploying SSIS/SSRS solutions (SQL Server 2014) from Visual Studio? If memory serves, I think this was installed from SSDTBI_VS2012_x86_ENU.exe. Situation is I am developing solutions from my desktop using Visual Studio 2012 Shell (Integrated). The solutions are stored and deployed to an integration services server running SQL Server 2014. They run completely fine and can also be called from SQL Server Agent via a job. What I’d like to do is to be able to modify and re-deploy the solutions directly on the server (especially useful when remote desktop-ing). On the server I already have a couple of programs installed – namely “SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2013” and “Visual Studio Professional 2012”. I open the former one, which shows as “Visual Studio 2013 Integrated (Shell)” when opening, and when I select my existing 2012 package I am prompted with “Welcome to SSIS Package Upgrade Wizard”. In the Select Package menu I select my package (called “FleetList.dtsx”) and on next Menu, Select Package Management Options, I leave the default selections ticked (“Update Connection strings to use new provider names”, “Continue upgrade process when a package upgrade fails”, “Ignore Configuration”) and the others left unticked (“Validate Upgraded packages”, “Create new Package ID”). On clicking “Next” to perform Upgrade I get 3 errors: (1) “The package format was migrated from version 6 to version 8. It must be saved to retain migration changes.”, (2) “The connection “{DD029D7E-E3CO-41CO-BFD7-……………..” is not found. This error is thrown by Connections collection when the specific connection element is not found.”, (3) “Error: Package Upgrade: The loading of the package FleetList.dtsx has failed”.
    I then have a message stating “The package is upgraded. See list of warnings …”
    I click “ok” and the package opens with some Warning messages. However, when I right-click and execute package I immediately have a “Save File As” window appear inviting me to save the solution. I select a location within the current solution folder (defaults to this), but I get an Access Denied message “System.UnauthorisedAccessException: Access to the path ‘E:\Finance\Server\…………. \Development\Project.params is denied”.

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