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Visual Studio is just the IDE (same way Eclipse and CodeBlocks are IDEs). There is nothing tying VS to Sql Server. You could write code to connect to Sql Server in Notepad and compile it using the command line if you wanted.<br />
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So the short answer to your question is, yes, you can use VS '08 with SS. &nbsp;:)
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Visual Studio is just the IDE (same way Eclipse and CodeBlocks are IDEs). There is nothing tying VS to Sql Server. You could write code to connect to Sql Server in Notepad and compile it using the command line if you wanted.

So the short answer to your question is, yes, you can use VS '08 with SS.  :)

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&gt;&gt; There is nothing tying VS to Sql Server.<br />
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For clarity, should read:<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; There is nothing tying any particular version of VS to any particular version of Sql Server. 
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>> There is nothing tying VS to Sql Server.

For clarity, should read:

    There is nothing tying any particular version of VS to any particular version of Sql Server.

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Thank you very much everyone for the prompt answers.<br />
Al
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Thank you very much everyone for the prompt answers.
Al

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Hi, we are about to upgrade our visual studio 2005 professional to visual studio 2008 professional (a little late, I know), and I was wondering if it is a requirement to upgrade also sql server 2005 to sql server 2008? <br />
All our applications has been written in visual studio 2005 and use the sql server 2005 as the backend DBMS.<br />
Could we keep sql server 2005 and continue developing our applications using visual studio 2008 now?
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Hi, we are about to upgrade our visual studio 2005 professional to visual studio 2008 professional (a little late, I know), and I was wondering if it is a requirement to upgrade also sql server 2005 to sql server 2008? 
All our applications has been written in visual studio 2005 and use the sql server 2005 as the backend DBMS.
Could we keep sql server 2005 and continue developing our applications using visual studio 2008 now?

Keep SQL Server 2005 with Visual Studio 2008

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.