This post was authored by Tara Raj and Vinson Yu, Program Managers – SQL Server Team We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The ...

Learn how to install and configure SQL Server Management Studio, download a SQL Server, and connect them on a Windows 11/10/Server computer..

Open Command Prompt: Press Win + R, type cmd, and press Enter to open Command Prompt. Verify SQLCMD Installation: Type sqlcmd -? and press Enter to check if SQLCMD is installed and accessible. You ...

SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

RunSQLCommand Command line SQL query tool for SQL Server written in Powershell This designed to be a basic tool for quick lookups. Its primary audience sroduction application support admins. It only ...

We are delighted to share the production-ready release of the SQL Server Command Line Tools (sqlcmd and bcp) on macOS El Capitan and Sierra. The sqlcmd utility is a command-line tool that lets you ...

This is likely because when I first learned it was with command-line tools, but even so, I think command-line database tools often are the best way to interact with a database manually. Two of the ...