As a follow-up to Microsoft Build at the end of May, we thought it was a good time to highlight recent updates for client tools. In this post, we’ll recap the updates to SQL tools over the past few ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

Microsoft SQL Server Express LocalDB is a feature of [!INCLUDE [ssexpress-md](../../includes/ssexpress-md.md)] targeted to developers. It's available on SQL Server ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a Microsoft application for managing SQL Server databases through a user-friendly interface and various tools. Features of SSMS include Query Editor, Database ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server] There is no separate header file for the SQL Server Express LocalDB instance API; the LocalDB function signatures and error codes are defined in ...

Something I do all the time when performance tuning Power BI is use SQL Server Profiler to monitor query and refresh activity. There’s a handy external tool that lets you open up Profiler with a ...

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...