Version Numbers on SQL Server Data Tools

• samalex

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  October 18, 2018 at 10:13 am

  #371724

  I'm confused on this, and I hoped someone could shed some light. I'm looking at prior versions of SQL Server Data Tools here:
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/previous-releases-of-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt-and-ssdt-bi?view=sql-server-2017

  Why is Visual Studio 2013 at version 16.x, Visual Studio 2015 is at version 17.x, yet Visual Studio 2017 is at version 15.x?  Why did it go backwards?

  SSDT release    Visual Studio 2017
  15.8.0    SSDT for VS2017 15.8.0
  15.7.1    SSDT for VS2017 15.7.1
  15.7.0    SSDT for VS2017 15.7.0
  15.6.0    SSDT for VS2017 15.6.0
  SSDT release    Visual Studio 2015
  17.4    SSDT for VS2015 17.4
  17.3    SSDT for VS2015 17.3
  16.5    SSDT for VS2015 16.5
  SSDT release    Visual Studio 2013
  16.5    SSDT for VS2013 16.5

  Thanks.