Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

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Development Tools

SSMS delivers an equally impressive number of features for database developers. Many of the features were available with SQL Server 2005, but SQL Server 2008 has added some new ones as well. T-SQL Debugging, IntelliSense in the Query Editor, and multiserver queries are a few of those new tools for developers found in SQL Server 2008. These new tools and the other essential developer tools from SSMS are discussed in the following sections.

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