Can we install Management studio on a Production Server?

  • Hi,

    Could you please tell me whether you guys install Management studio, Books Online on a production server or not?

    If we install Management studio and Books Online will it effect anything?

    Please advice...

  • We install SSMS + BOL on every sqlserver server.

    (BIDev studio will only get installed at request.)

    Why do we install SSMS locally on the server ?

    Because we are only allowed to perform certain actions using a remote desktop solution.

    "But you can also use 'run as' with your clients SSMS" indeed, but the remote desktop account doesn't have logon authority on our local pc or laptops.

    btw: we only use windows authentication to perform administrative tasks for sqlserver. sa isn't being used!

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  • Same here. The client tools are a standard part of each of our SQL Server installations on database servers.

    Greg

  • We also install the client tools on the server. It does not hurt anything, but when you need to do something and your PC is not available (with all of your tools, including SSMS) - it is nice to be able to remote desktop to the server and perform the work.

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  • same here...

    Its not going to hurt the server performance either.

  • Boolean_z (4/10/2009)


    same here...

    Its not going to hurt the server performance either.

    Unless someone decides to run a query on the server and return millions of very large rows. I would not recommend doing those kinds of queries on the server - but I have seen it.

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