We currently have SQL Sever 2012 Enterprise / Visual Studio 2012 on a DEV machine and we are developing a Business Intelligence solution using the BI Semantic Model and SSDT. Once complete, our aim is to deploy our solution to PROD - a Windows Sever 2012 Standard VM which mirrors our DEV environment.
Will we require a full SQL Server install on our server VM?
If yes, will we encounter any problems if we use a newer version of SQL Sever for PROD (i.e. 2014 Enterprise)?