How Do I Open Sql Server Management Studio 2014 After Installation? SSMS can be accessed from the Start page in most versions of Windows by typing it and selecting Microsoft SQL Server Management ...

SQL Server 2005 Express does both. Express editions of SQL Server Management Studio are management tools that offer a graphical interface to work with SQL Server databases.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

Figure 1. A SQL Server query against the Northwind database executed in PowerShell. (Click image to view larger version.) Fig. 2 is that same query as executed in SSMS (yes, I finally did get it to ...