![]() ![]() I go right back to where I left off by trying to do a data compare and I am greeted with this:Ī few choice words later and I start to see that I am still running with VS2010, which cannot connect to SQL 2012. Once the updates are finished I was ready to get started using SSDT 2012. As that blog posts says, you need to open up a database project and then you get led to download and install the necessary update. I used the instructions on this blog post in order to install the final few updates for SSDT 2012. I suspected that I needed to perform some updates. ![]() Why must life be so hard? Visual Studio Shell HellĪfter some digging around I could see that the shortcut for SSDT was pointing to the existing Visual Studio 2010, and it made sense that VS2010 would not able to connect to SQL 2012. My second thought was “WTH”? How is it that SSDT 2012 does NOT allow for me to connect to an instance of SQL 2012? That makes absolutely no sense! My first thought was “What do you mean that ‘Data information could not be retrieved because of the following error: SQL Server versions later than 2008 R2 are not supported'” ? That is when I was greeted with this lovely message: So I opened up SSDT and tried to do a data compare between an instance of SQL 2008R2 and SQL 2012. The one item I decided to test was going to be a simple data compare between two AdventureWorks databases. Having used previous versions of SSDT (yes, I’m old enough to recall the Business Intelligence Development Studio, now GET OFF MY LAWN) I was familiar with some of the basic functionality available throughout the years. I think the installer placed a shortcut in my Start Menu and that’s about it. To be honest I’m still not sure what was installed on my laptop as a result of my checking this box. I already had them installed on my laptop, or so I thought I had them installed because I had checked off the “SQL Server Data Tools” box under the Shared Feature section on the Feature Selection install page as shown in this image: ![]() Recently while preparing a talk on the new features in SQL 2012 I decided that it would be a good time to explore SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). ![]()
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