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Understand SQL Server Management Studio - SQL Server Tutorial
From the course: SQL Server 2022 Administration
Understand SQL Server Management Studio
So SQL Server Management Studio is by far and away the tool you'll use the most, which is why we wanted to talk about it here. So I refer to it as Management Studio or sometimes SSMS for short, but it's all the same thing. It's the Management Studio. So see here I have it opened up and there's a few panes and a few properties you care about. And you can rearrange this, however, you like and drag these things all over the place and put them where you want them, but I kind of have them in their default. So for me, Object Explorer is over here on the left. If you work with Visual Studio, your Solution Explorer and stuff is often on the right. Some people prefer it over there, sort of your preference. But Object Explorer is sort of what shows you all the different objects and pieces and parts of whatever you've connected to. So here I'm connected to my local SQL Inside Out instance, which has a database. And then if you want to configure replication or security or anything else, there's…