Is SQL Server client server?

Is SQL Server a client?

A "client" is a front-end application that uses the services provided by a server such as the SQL Server Database Engine. The computer that hosts this application is referred to as the client computer. At the simplest level, a SQL Server client can reside on the same machine as an instance of SQL Server.

What is difference between SQL client and SQL Server?

Type: SQL is a query language. It is used to write queries to retrieve or manipulate the relational database data. On the other hand, SQL Server is proprietary software or an RDBMS tool that executes the SQL statements.

Is SQL Server a server?

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that supports a wide variety of transaction processing, business intelligence and analytics applications in corporate IT environments.

Is SQL Server SaaS?

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) hosted in the Azure cloud that falls into the industry categories of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). SQL database is built on standardized hardware and software that is owned, hosted, and maintained by Microsoft.