So the next step in preparing our development environment for this course is to download SQL Server 1
Management Studio. 2
The SQL server database engine was installed with Winrk, so you already have that. 3
But the management studio basically allows you to manage a set of SQL server instances, and it allows 4
you to create databases, execute SQL commands and things like that. 5
And so we need to download this. 6
And all you're going to do is download this file. 7
And we can just go directly to the downloads folder here and execute the setup. 8
And you just click install. 9
And this is going to work with the last several versions of the SQL server database engine. 10
And once the installation is done we can just click the close button. 11
And so once you've installed SQL Server Management Studio 19, we can just go launch it from the Windows 12
Bar. 13
And it should open it. 14
And then it'll ask you to connect to the local SQL server instance. 15
Now when wink installs SQL server, it creates what we call a named instance, which is always the name 16
of the computer. 17
Forward slash WinCC. 18
Once wink is installed, you do not want to change your computer name or it will break the links to 19
SQL server. 20
And it's kind of painful to get it back. 21
So we'll just hit connect and we can see some databases. 22
These are the WinCC databases of the current project that I have open in WinCC Version 8. 23
So go ahead and download Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. 24
You can use the link in the course resources, or you can just use your favorite search engine and search 25
for download Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. 26
Once you get the installation done, I'll see you in the next section.