

It’s always been necessary for programmers to use management-oriented tools (such as SSMS) rather than developer-focused tools (such as Visual Studio) as a primary database development environment when building database applications-until now. So for years, programmers have been primarily using SSMS to conduct development tasks (and before SQL Server 2005, they typically used two database administrator tools-SQL Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer). And although DbPro was a good first step towards offline database development, its relatively limited design-time experience has precluded its widespread adoption. Indeed, SSMS is alive and well in SQL Server 2012, and it continues to serve as the primary management tool for database administrators who need to configure and maintain healthy SQL Server installations. SSDT is not intended to be a replacement for SSMS, but instead can be viewed much more as a greatly evolved implementation of DbPro. This IDE is called SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), and it represents a major step forward from previously available tooling-notably, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Visual Studio Database Professional edition (DbPro). You may click the Cancel button to this dialog-box.With the release of SQL Server 2012, Microsoft delivers a powerful, new integrated development environment (IDE) for designing, testing, and deploying SQL Server databases-locally, offline, or in the cloud-all from right inside Microsoft Visual Studio (both the 2010 version and the upcoming Visual Studio 11, currently in beta at the time of this writing).

Make sure that your selected features (Integration Services, Reporting Services and Analysis Services) are installed. To confirm the installation of SSDT go to File > New > Project… Once installation is completed, click the Restart button to complete setup.Īfter restarting your computer start Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. Wait until the download and installation are completed. Check all the features you want to install. Select ‘Visual Studio Community 2017’ from the drop-down list.

Once the setup file SSDT-Setup-ENU.exe is downloaded, double click the file to start installation. You can also download the installation file directly by clicking the button bellow: You can download the installation file from the Microsoft’s website. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for Visual Studio 2017.
