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What's New in SQL Server 2012

You're reading from  What's New in SQL Server 2012

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849687348
Pages 238 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

What's New in SQL Server 2012
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installing SQL Server 2012 2. SQL Server Administration 3. Transact SQL 4. Analysis Services 5. Reporting Services 6. Integration Services 7. Data Quality Services 8. AlwaysOn 9. Distributed Replay 10. Big Data and the Cloud Index

SQL Server Data Tools


Depending on the scope of your development role, you may find that you use more than one version of Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2010 for creating and managing your database projects and Visual Studio 2008, or Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) for your BI projects (SSIS, SSAS and SSRS). In the past, the SQL Server development toolset has lagged behind, remaining on an older version of Microsoft's development environment, but it has finally caught up.

SQL Server 2012 says goodbye to BIDS and introduces us to SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). Based on the Visual Studio 2010 shell, SSDT thankfully brings everything under the same roof. If you already use Visual Studio 2010 for software or web applications, then you are in the same familiar environment.

Just like BIDS, SSDT is a free tool available to all SQL Server developers as part of the standard SQL Server installation options, so you don't need to have Visual Studio 2010 already installed. But if you do,...

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