SQL Server Management Studio setup is completed successfully. Installing SQL Server Management Studio 17.2 will take only a few minutes.
When the Welcome screen is displayed, press Install to start setup process Launch the SQL Server 2017 Management Studio v17.2 installer as administrator. Setup program for SQL Server Management Studio 2017.2 is SSMS-Setup-ENU.exe and it is about 782 MB
If you have already installed a previous version of SQL Server Management Studio 2017.x then you can upgrade to SSMS 2017.2 by using this upgrade package If you want to install SQL Server Management Studio 2017.2, please get you download here When you click on the Install SQL Server Management Tools link button, you will be directed to Microsoft Docs for a detailed explanation of SSMS for SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server Management Studio download links The one caveat to this shortcut is that to review information about an. Highlighting a table object in code and then pressing ALT + F1 with in the SSMS IDE will execute the equivalent command of sphelp ‘objectname’ where objectname is the name of the highlighted object. On Installation tab, you will see Install SQL Server Management Tools section. Enter the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) shortcut key ALT + F1. If the Linked Server was created with the Allow inprocess option enabled, then you should delete this Linked Server and create it again with the Allow inprocess option disabled.Perhaps it is good to remind database professionals how they can download SQL Server 2017 and check the SQL Server 2017 installation steps. To query the linked server, click New Query in the toolbar:Įnter your SQL query in the editor window and click Execute to run the query:Īs a result, you can see the contents of the selected table retrieved directly from the MySQL account you are connected to. The MySQL tables are already available to be fetched.
Make sure to select Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers and specify the following parameters: In the appeared Provider Options window, clear the Allow inprocess checkbox: For this, find the MSDASQL provider in the list of Linked Servers and double-click on it Retrieving Data From MySQLĭisable the Allow inprocess option of MSDASQL OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers. You can now issue distributed queries and access MySQL databases through SQL Server. The linked server will appear under the Linked Servers in the Object Explorer Pane.
Alternatively, you can input the ODBC Driver connection string in the Provider field.
How to configure a SQL Server Linked Server to connect to MySQL
NET Framework 4.5 must be installed on the computer.Ĭonnecting to MySQL from SQL Server Management Studio using ODBC Driver for MySQL ODBC Driver for MySQL and SQL Server must be installed on the same computer.Otherwise, configure the driver using the 32-bit version of ODBC Administrator - launch it from %windir%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe.
For example, if you are using 64-bit SQL Server Management Studio on 64-bit Windows platform, then configure the 64-bit version of the driver using ODBC Administrator launched from %windir%\system32\odbcad32.exe.