If you use SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL Server Data Tools – BI (SSDT-BI) for your SQL Server 2012 development, then you have no doubt been frustrated, like me, by the fact that if you have both of these installed you no longer have the ability to create new Partitions and AggregationDesigns when working with the SSAS MOLAP model. You can find others that have run into this issue here.
The solution I found was to install both SSDT & SSDT-BI on my laptop then have a VM with just SSDT-BI on it. That way when I needed to work on Partitions or Aggregation Designs (which is very infrequently), I just fire up the VM and I’m off and running.
Well, with SQL Server 2016 development we get to use Visual Studio 2015 and SSDT is now included in that install (although you do not get the BI project types, more on that here), no more do you have to have separate machines. I tested CTP 3 and Partitions and Aggregation Designs work once again. Hooray!
