I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality.

I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality.

Can I Install Sql Server Data Tools Without Visual Studio? Installing Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services with SQL Server Data Tools can be done with the SSDT standalone ...

The VDT designers were hosted in the Visual InterDev shell and introduced a new database project type that served as a container for Transact SQL (T-SQL) scripts generated by the tools. Before VDT, ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools ...