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SSDT is a specialized edition of the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). It can be used to develop a variety of projects related to SQL Server, such as relational and Azure databases, Analysis Services data models, Reporting Services reports, or Integration Services projects, to name just a few.
In the past, SSDT used to be a standalone tool, requiring only a subset of Visual Studio features to be installed. However, starting with Visual Studio 2019 (or SQL Server 2019), SSDT represents an extension (or better: a set of extensions) of the principal Visual Studio IDE.
To use the 2019 version of SSDT, you first need to install Visual Studio 2019, and then add the SSDT extensions, followed by the extensions needed to develop Analysis Services, Integration Services, and/or Reporting Services projects. This does increase the complexity of the installation procedure, but it also more closely follows the standard approach...