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❑ Display current activity, such as who is logged on, what objects are locked, and from which
client they are running
❑ Manage security, including such items as roles, logins, and remote and linked servers
❑ Initiate and manage the Database Mail Service
❑ Create and manage full-text search catalogs
❑ Manage configuration settings for the server
❑ Initiate an instance of the new PowerShell console
❑ Create and manage publishing and subscribing databases for replication
We will be seeing a great deal of the Management Studio throughout this book, so let’s take a closer look
at some of the key functions Management Studio serves.
Getting Started with the Management Studio
When you first start the Management Studio, you are presented with a Connection dialog box similar to
the one in Figure 2-6.
Figure 2-6
Your login screen may look a little bit different from this, depending on whether you’ve logged in before,
what machine you logged into, and what login name you used. Most of the options on the login screen
are pretty self-explanatory, but let’s look at a couple in more depth.
Server Type
This relates to which of the various subsystems of SQL Server you are logging in to (the normal database
server, Analysis Services, Report Server, or Integration Services). Since these different types of servers
can share the same name, pay attention to this to make sure you’re logging in to what you think you’re
logging in to.
Server Name
Chapter 2: Tools of the Trade
As you might guess, this is the SQL Server in to which you’re asking to be logged. In Figure 2-6, we
have chosen “.”. This doesn’t mean that there is a server named period, but rather that we want to
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