BIDS not Present 6

[Skittle]

This is wierd.

I installed the Developer edition of SQL 2005 some months ago. Up to now I have been fiddling about with query manager but now want to start using the 2005 equivalent of SQL 2000's DTS. The help indicates I should access BIDS from START-->PROGRAMS-->SQL SERVER 2005 . . . but BIDS is not there. I have tried adding it as part of the 'Workstation Components, Books Online, and Development Tools' via setup but setup tells me it is already installed.

Am I missing something dumb here or should I just unistall and start again.

Dazed and confused

 

[Skittle]

Wow. Thanks for the responses. I've been busy with year end stuff for a few weeks so sorry about the delay in responding.

MrDenny
I tried running Visual Studio 2005 as you described but the
project types available to me are limited to 'Blank Solution'. If I should be able to do this with an install of SQL 2005 Developer Edition with Client Tools ticked, I think my install has failed - possibly due to the fact my test machine is to weak ( see my comment to catadmin ).


onpnt
The virtual labs and webcasts are pretty good. These are proving very useful. Many thanks.

Catadmin
The log did show an error on install. I remember it had shown as a warning when I installed in August. It was a warning about minimum hardware requirements - although it doesn't say any more than that. I guess this could be the source of the problem - although everything else has always worked fine.

I really wanted to have a play with BIDS so installed the Express version on another machine. It installed clean but gosh darn it - BIDS is not part of the install.

I think I'm just going to have to get a better test machine.


MDexer
You mention that depolyed packages are binary files that can only be executed to prevent people modifying.
This may be a dumb question, but can you define 'deployed'?
Do you mean an executable that could passed around clienst or other servers - mucjh like a .Net program? One you have created a DTS like job from BIDS you are running on your server to say - bring in data and transform it, do you still have the ability to change it in BIDS?




So...I'm going to try another install and if that doesn't work, I'll get a new test PC from somewere.

Dazed and confused