Hey,
I am going to start learning SQL soon and the book I just got (Beginning Microsoft SQL 2012 Programming) refers to special software like "SQL Server 2012 management tools" and recommends to get the full version rather than the Express version.
I already have Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2012, so my question is the following:
Can you use that version of Visual Studio for SQL programming? And if yes - would you even recommend me doing that? Because the author of that book recommends and (I guess) uses SQL Server so if there was too much difference between Visual Studio and SQL Server I'd have a rather tough time learning.
I've already searched the web for like 15 minutes and the information I found seems to be outdated so I thought it would be a good to simply ask myself.
Thank you very much for your help.
Greetings,
FunkyPeanut