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I have SQL Server Standard Edition and want to develop using Data Tools with Visual Studio Community Edition.
I notice that it's allowed with SQL Enterprise editions
Seen here
The EULA of VS 2019 community edition has a specific section that allows enterprise users to use it for the SSDT workload. See https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/mlt031819/.
Any number of your users may use the software only for Microsoft SQL Server development when using the SQL Server Data Tools or the extensions “Microsoft Analysis Services Projects”, “Microsoft Reporting Services Projects”, or “SQL Server Integration Services Projects” to develop Microsoft SQL Server database projects or Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Power BI Report Server, or Integration Services projects.
But I can't find anything around right to use VS 2019 Community with SQL 2019 Standard Edition.
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Hi @Snowy River ,
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Best regards,
Seeya
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What you're looking at is the right to allow more than 5 users to use Community Edition if you're an organization. Organizations can only use Community Edition (for more than 5 users) in one of the specific uses listed under that section. If you're not an organization with at least 5 users, you can skip over the part about "If you are an organization".
SQL server itself will limit what you can do based on the version. For example, if you're connecting to SQL Server Express, then SSRS will only connect to itself or other SQL Servers. SQL Server Standard's SSRS will allow the use of data sources with generic ODBC drivers. This has nothing to do with which version of Visual Studio you're using, it's built into SQL Server itself.
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The developer tools are not licensed based on the server you are connecting too. You can use the VS 2019 community edition + SSDT add-ins to develop on any platform or edition.
Hi @Snowy River ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
The standard version is no problem. As TOM said, > The developer tools are not licensed based on the server you are connecting too.
The enterprise you are looking at does not seem to be an enterprise version, but an organization.
Your question is about the license of Visual Studio, you can ask under this link. The forum is more about technical discussions.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/support/
Best regards,
Seeya
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