Thursday, May 15, 2014

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) / Business Intelligence Studio (BIDS) for 2014

Are you searching for SQL Server Data Tools or Business Intelligence Development Studio after installing SQL Server 2014? If so, you are reading the right post.

SQL Server Data Tools or Business Intelligence Development Studio is used for creating projects on Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, etc. Usually this gets automatically installed when SQL Server is installed but not with SQL Server 2014. This needs to be separately downloaded and installed.

This is basically a set of Visual Studio project templates that allows us to work with Microsoft SQL Server Business intelligence product suite. With SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, it was named as Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and with SQL Server 2012, Microsoft named it as SQL Server Data tools (SSDT). However, confusing us, there was another tool available with the same name which was used for creating database projects with Visual Studio. In order to clear the confusion, with SQL Server 2014, it has been named as Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio (SSDTBI).

You can download Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36843

This is still not ready for Visual Studio 2013. Microsoft initially made it available but the release has been called off due to some side by side issues with SSDT.
(Updated 02-Jun-2014). Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2013 is now available. Read more on this from:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42313

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