Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Command Line Utilities So if you get along with just the command line interface all you need to remotely manage an SQL Server Database is to install SQLCMD and the SQL Native Client. But for a long time this utility was only available with a full SQL Server installation or as part of the SQL Server Admin Studio install.īut this week, I found out that as part of the Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack, SQLCMD is available as a separate download. For Microsoft SQL Server the kind of equivalent to Oracle’s SQL Plus is SQLCMD. SQL-Net for providing database connectivity and SQL Plus as the command line interface.
In the days that I was an Oracle database admin (long long time ago) the two most important applications I used to manage a database were SQLNet and SQL Plus.
