Sql Management Studio Pricing

[FMKA]

Gents,

i need a help i am little bit confused i went to google i found

Sql management Studio pricing as follow

3 years Maintenance 768 USD
1 Year Maintenance 568 USD and another i find a free download of sql mangement studio express what i want to know are you sure that the free download product is good can i use it without future problem or i need to buy the product and what the D# bettween one and another ? about powefull and features ?

[skhanal]

SQL Management Express is for managing SQL Express database. It may be limited in functionality so you will not be able to manage full version of SQL Server.

SQL Management studio is part of SQL client license, per this site, each CAL license is $162

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2...s/pricing.aspx

[skhanal]

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2...s/pricing.aspx