Chapter 1. Introducing SQL Server Data Tools
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). 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).
SSDT is not intended to be a replacement for SSMS, but instead can be viewed much more as a greatly evolved implementation ...
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