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.

Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements.

The SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) are modern development tools for building SQL Server relational databases, Azure SQL databases, bases in Azure SQL, Analysis Services (AS) data models, Integration ...

The SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) are modern development tools for building SQL Server relational databases, Azure SQL databases, bases in Azure SQL, Analysis Services (AS) data models, Integration ...

• Partitioning Improvements • Power View • Server Roles • Spatial Improvements • SSAS Tabular Modeling • SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) • SSIS Improvements • SSRS Data Alerts • StreamInsight ...

SQL Server Data Tools has upgraded from Microsoft.Data.SQLClient 3.0 to 5.0. The new version has support for TDS 8.0, support for specifying Server SPN and Failover Server SPN on the connection.

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies ...

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0. There are many new features, including: AlwaysOn, better performance management, more reporting and visualization tools, Columnstore ...

SQL Server 2012 will offer a variety of new features centered on big data, business intelligence and cloud computing.

Review: SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows.