

Of course, Visual Studio contained a lot of other developer tools besides the SSDT tools. The same tools were in both applications. For people that worked with SQL Server but didn't need a copy of Visual Studio, there was another tool called the Business Intelligence Development Studio. The SSDT were an integrated part of Visual Studio 2008. At that point in time, the Visual Studio team and the SQL Server team joined forces to produce a tools set for Visual Studio.

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