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Asked: 2026-05-19T01:40:25+00:00

I’ve got experience with MySQL, DB2, and Oracle, but aside from writing a few

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I’ve got experience with MySQL, DB2, and Oracle, but aside from writing a few queries, I’ve never used SQL Server.

My question is a three parter:

1) For a developer, what are some good “free” client tools to look at, and why (by “free” I mean open source, freeware, or the tools that come with SQL Server itself)?

2) I plan to run Developer or Express Edition on my workstation for development, and either Standard or Enterprise Edition in the testing and production environments. What methods exist if any for transferring data between different servers and the different editions?

3) Are there any common pitfalls that someone like me (who is used to the other database systems that I mentioned) might encountered during development?

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  1. Editorial Team
    1. SQL Server Management Studio which comes with SQL Server (any editions), or you can download it separately. SQL Server Profiler which doesn’t come with Express.
    2. Management studio has tools for backup/restore database. You can also consider detach/attach method to synchronize db .
    3. It’s hard to say. But if you had Mysql experience you will be pleasantly surprised by SQL Server.
      UPDATE

      1. There are so many things that each DB vendor implements differently that it’s really hard to focus on some of them. One thing I was not used before is that SQL Server doesn’t let unique columns to have more than 1 NULL value(there is a workaround though)
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