Update your SQL Server Management Studio 2016 to work with SQL Server 2016

If you followed my recent post (http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2016/05/get-ssms-2016-and-install-to-work-with.html)you would have installed the SQL Server Management Studo 2016 Release Candidate which used the software released on April 2016.

SSMS2016_April2016

SQL Server 2016 Developer became available on June 1, and when the SSMS 2016 RC was launched, you would get a message that there is an update to SSMS 2016.

SSMSUpdate

Clicking on the Update button takes you to Microsoft web site to download the latest version whose details are shown below.

SSMS2016_June2016

Updating easy

Double click the downloaded   June 2016 version to display the

Click Install and takes a little while downloading packages and installing.

Click Close.

Here is the SQL Server 2016 Instance after making a connection to it:

SSMS_SQL2k16_00

Download SQL Server Management Studio 2016 Preview and Get ready

SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS) is an integrated environment consisting of several components made expressely for managing SQL Server infrastructure and Azure SQL Database (Azure Cloud). Using SSMS you can:

• Configure
• Monitor
• Administer instances of SQL Server.

It has full set of  Data-Tier Technology tools for databases and data warehouses

• Deploy
• Monitor
• Upgrade

It can do a lot more than the above that includes,
Download your free copy from here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/mt238290.aspx
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6/3/8639523C-7F12-4CC3-8D2F-908C7A78B4C6/SSMS-Setup-ENU.exe