About James Serra
I am a Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Architect, specializing in the SQL Server BI stack. I also am a DBA and have been for the last 15 years. I work for B.I. Voyage.-
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Category Archives: Visual Studio 2010
BIDS Helper 1.6 for SQL Server 2012 released
BIDS helper is Visual Studio add-in with features that extend and enhance the functionality of the SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 BI Development Studio, and now supports SQL Server 2012 (including tabular mode) and Visual Studio 2010 (SSDT). Version 1.6 … Continue reading
SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), codename ‘Juneau”
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), codename “Juneau”, is the name for the new SQL Server Development Tool to be released along with the next version of SQL Server 2012, codenamed “Denali“. Its purpose is to provide a single development environment for … Continue reading
Watch out, Visual Studio 2010 does not support BI
When Visual Studio 2010 was released about a year ago, I was very excited and wanted to quickly open up a SSAS project created in VS 2008 to see the new features that were available in VS 2010. So I copied … Continue reading
