This BIDS Helper release brings the following new features and fixes:
New Features:
Fixed Issues:
The exe downloads are a self extracting installer, the zip downloads allow for an xcopy deploy which does not require administrator permissions. Make sure to note the updated xcopy deploy instructions for SQL Server 2012.
New Features:
- Tabular Annotation Workaround - a workaround for a ReadElementContentAs error after SQL2012 SP1 is applied
- Biml updates and fixes, including:
- Log provider fixes for 2012
- New language features for defining package parameters
- Project and package parameter referencing in SSIS expressions
- Support for custom connection managers
- Support for automated emission of lineage IDs in custom components
- Performance enhancements
- and much more
Fixed Issues:
- Edit Variable Expression --> Exception - fix for sensitive parameters in SSIS2012
- fixes to Parent-Child Dimension Naturalizer
- allowing naturalizing of dimension on top of SQL view (but not DSV named query)
- properly de-duping names of foreign keys added to DSV
The exe downloads are a self extracting installer, the zip downloads allow for an xcopy deploy which does not require administrator permissions. Make sure to note the updated xcopy deploy instructions for SQL Server 2012.
- BIDS Helper 2012 is for SQL 2012 and Visual Studio 2010.
- Note that BIDS Helper 1.6.2 does not support Visual Studio 2012, once BI development in Visual Studio 2012 is released. A future BIDS Helper release plans support for Visual Studio 2012.
- BIDS Helper 2008 is for SQL 2008, SQL 2008 R2, and Visual Studio 2008.
- BIDS Helper 2005 is for SQL 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.