Visual Studio has a project type called “Database Project” that is used to manage a database schema and allows for easy integration with source control. Visual Studio Database Projects have been known by a few different names down the years … Continue reading →
UPDATE 3/6/13: VS 2012 now supports BI! Check out Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 In the same vein as my post Watch out, Visual Studio 2010 does not support BI, Visual Studio 2012 does … Continue reading →
BIDS helper is Visual Studio add-in with features that extend and enhance the functionality of the SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 BI Development Studio, and now supports SQL Server 2012 (including tabular mode) and Visual Studio 2010 (SSDT). Version 1.6 … Continue reading →
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), codename “Juneau”, is the name for the new SQL Server Development Tool to be released along with the next version of SQL Server 2012, codenamed “Denali“. Its purpose is to provide a single development environment for … Continue reading →
When Visual Studio 2010 was released about a year ago, I was very excited and wanted to quickly open up a SSAS project created in VS 2008 to see the new features that were available in VS 2010. So I copied … Continue reading →