SSMS

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for managing any SQL infrastructure. Use SSMS to access, configure, manage.

MS SQL Server Management Studio is a workstation or a client tool which is used to connect to and manage your SQL Server

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a windows software or a client tool used to connect and work with our SQL Server from a graphical interface instead of using the command line. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 launched the management studio to work with SQL Server and Azure SQL databases.

It allows DBAs and database developers to configure, manage, and administer all components within SQL Server. Its main functionality is to create databases and tables, execute SQL queries for inserting, updating, and deleting data, creating and managing stored procedures, triggers, views, and cursors. It also enables us to set privileges (securities) on databases and their objects.

SSMS also includes tools for deployment, database health monitoring, and reporting. It includes SQL Profiler, which allows us to examine the performance of our SQL databases. It's also possible to use it to schedule background work. If we want to connect to a remote SQL Server instance, we'll need this GUI tool or similar software. It is used by Administrators, Developers, Testers, etc. The latest version of SQL Server Management Studio is SSMS 18.8 RC. If we have installed a previous version, we just need to install SSMS 18.8 upgrades.