SQL Server Management Studio is Free now


For many years, it is ambiguous as no Microsoft license expert is sure that SSMS should be licensed if it is installed on a separate server other than database engine. But we know it should be licensed after reading their document again and again.
Now excited news is confirmed that SSMS 2016 is free to install on any computers,

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238290.aspx

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