Installation Definitions
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Azure Data Studio (formerly SQL Operations Studio)
Azure Data Studio is a Microsoft tool, originally named SQL Operations Studio, for managing SQL Server databases and cloud-based Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse systems.
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Community Technology Preview (CTP)
The Community Technology Preview (CTP) is an early version of a Microsoft product that is released to testers during the software development process. Microsoft releases several CTPs for each product, adding new features, updating pre-existing ones and fixing bugs with each release.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 is a SQL-based relational database management system released by Microsoft for general availability on June 1, 2016. It supports transaction processing, data warehousing and analytics uses and provides new and updated features with a 'mobile first, cloud first' approach.
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Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system, or RDBMS, that supports a wide variety of transaction processing, business intelligence and analytics applications in corporate IT environments
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SQL (Structured Query Language)
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standardized programming language that's used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them.
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SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2014 is relational database management system (RDBMS) designed for the enterprise environment.