BI Development Studio Licensing in SQL Server 2005

Can someone clarify the above for me? Specifically, do you need VS
2005 installed and/or a license or is the Development Studio covered
under the SQL Server 2005 licence in it's entirety?
Thanks,
Paul2005 ships with everything you need to develop reports. Unlike 2000 where
you had to have VS 2003. If you have VS 2005 it will integrate with it
(essentially they are shipping a special version of VS with RS 2005).
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
<penfoldtaylor@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Can someone clarify the above for me? Specifically, do you need VS
> 2005 installed and/or a license or is the Development Studio covered
> under the SQL Server 2005 licence in it's entirety?
> Thanks,
> Paul
>|||Thanks for the clarification. As an aside, am I right in saying that
the 2005 Business Intelligence Development Studio is incompatible with
MS Report Services Server 2000?|||It will convert 2000 reports to 2005 formats but you cannot use 2000 server
with 2005. You can upgrade RS 2000 to RS 2005 without upgrading SQL Server
to 2005. This means that the database engine can still be 2000 and when you
upgrade RS 2000 to 2005 the object/metadata store gets updated. You still
need a 2005 license.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
<penfoldtaylor@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the clarification. As an aside, am I right in saying that
> the 2005 Business Intelligence Development Studio is incompatible with
> MS Report Services Server 2000?
>