Is Visual Studio needed for SQL Server?

Does Visual Studio connect to SQL Server?

Visual Studio Code is a graphical code editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It supports extensions, including the mssql extension for querying a SQL Server instance, Azure SQL Database, an Azure SQL Managed Instance, and a database in Azure Synapse Analytics.

Is SQL Server Management Studio included in Visual Studio?

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) extensions are created with C# through the "Visual Studio extension development" workload in Visual Studio. SSMS 18. x is built on the Visual Studio 2017 shell and is subject to the limitations of that environment.

Does SQL Server comes with Visual Studio 2019?

No. It only supports any edition before 2012 of SQL Server. The latest version is Visual Studio 2019.

What is the difference between SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio?

Visual Studio is primarily used to make development easier whereas Management Studio is orientated towards making the management of SQL Server easier (with some development components.)