Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:
Visual Studio (VS) also offers the ability to work directly with Sql Server, and in Visual Studio you get a better project and snippet managements. The VS environment for working with Sql Server has a similar look and feel to SSMS. Additionally, VS has invested a considerable amount of effort into an add-in called Sql Server Data Tools, and this lets you manage database development similar to writing code in an enterprise environment, with integrated Source Control and Schema Compare and synchronization.
Third party tools might also offer features like Source Control and/or Schema Compare, pointing out that SSMS does not, but be aware that the Visual Studio SSDT environment offers it in a much cleaner and integrated way than third party tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business technology. The ability to script all objects in a database (write the DDL to a file)
There is also an integrated debugger that lets you step through stored procedures and see the values of variables and such
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