Best Database Clients for SQL Server
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This a list of Database Clients that integrate with SQL Server. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with SQL Server. View the products that work with SQL Server in the table below.
What are Database Clients for SQL Server?
Database clients are tools or applications used to connect to a database server and interact with its data. They allow users to perform operations such as querying, updating, inserting, and deleting records through a structured language. These clients often offer intuitive interfaces or command-line options to simplify database management tasks. They are essential for managing data efficiently, catering to both small-scale and enterprise-level needs. By providing a bridge between users and the database, they streamline data access and administration. Compare and read user reviews of the best Database Clients for SQL Server currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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DbVisualizer
DbVisualizer
DbVisualizer is one of the world's most popular database editors. With almost 7 million downloads and Pro users in 150 countries worldwide, it won't disappoint you. Free and Pro versions are available. Developers, analysts, and DBAs use it to elevate their SQL experience with modern tools to visualize and manage their databases, schemas, objects, and table data, auto-generate, write, and optimize queries, and so much more. It connects to all popular databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra, Snowflake, SQLite, BigQuery, and 30+ others, and runs on all popular OSes (Windows, macOS, and Linux). A powerful SQL editor with intelligent autocomplete, visual query builders, variables, and more. You can fully control window layouts, key bindings, UI theme, mark scripts, and database objects as favorites for quick access or even work outside of DbVisualizer. DbVisualizer is also built to meet rigorous security standards, all configurable within the product.Starting Price: Free -
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Studio 3T
Studio 3T
Auto-complete queries in a built-in mongo shell that highlights syntax errors as you type and saves your query history. Perfect for MongoDB beginners, a time-saver for pros. Use a drag-and-drop UI to build complex find() queries and filter array elements. Break down aggregation queries into manageable steps and build them stage by stage, for easier debugging and querying. Generate instant code in JavaScript (Node.js), Java (2.x and 3.x driver API), Python, C#, PHP, and Ruby from MongoDB and SQL queries that you can copy and paste into your application. Save MongoDB imports, exports, data comparisons, and migrations as tasks that you can run on demand. Or even better, skip the reminders and schedule them to run exactly when you need them. Make changes to your collection’s schema in just a few clicks, perfect for schema performance tuning, restructuring, or cleaning up after data migration.Starting Price: $499/year/user -
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DataGrip
JetBrains
Meet DataGrip, our new database IDE that is tailored to suit the specific needs of professional SQL developers. Allows you to execute queries in different modes and provides a local history that keeps track of all your activity and protects you from losing your work. Lets you jump to any table, view, or procedure by its name via the corresponding action, or directly from its usages in the SQL code. Gives you an extended insight into how your queries work and into the database engine behavior, so you can make your queries more efficient. DataGrip provides context-sensitive code completion, helping you to write SQL code faster. Completion is aware of the tables structure, foreign keys, and even database objects created in code you're editing. DataGrip detects probable bugs in your code and suggests the best options to fix them on the fly. It will immediately let you know about unresolved objects, using keywords as identifiers and always offers a way to fix the problems.Starting Price: $199 per year -
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DBeaver
DBeaver
Free multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Teradata, Firebird, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto, etc. Copy As: format configuration editor was added. Extra configuration for filter dialog (performance). Sort by column as fixed (for small fetch sizes). Case-insensitive filters support was added. Plaintext view now support top/bottom dividers. Data editor was fixed (when column name conflicts with alias name). Duplicate row(s) command was fixed for multiple selected rows. Edit sub-menu was returned to the context menu. Columns auto-size configuration was added. Dictionary viewer was fixed (for read-only connections). Current/selected row highlighting support was added (configurable). -
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Navicat Premium
Navicat
Navicat Premium is a database development tool that allows you to simultaneously connect to MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases from a single application. Compatible with cloud databases like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas. You can quickly and easily build, manage and maintain your databases. Data Transfer, Data Synchronization and Structure Synchronization help you migrate your data easier and faster for less overhead. Deliver detailed, step-by-step guidelines for transferring data across various DBMS. Compare and synchronize databases with Data and Structure Synchronization. Set up and deploy the comparisons in seconds, and get the detailed script to specify the changes you want to execute.Starting Price: $64.99 per month -
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Retool
Retool
Retool is an application development platform that enables developers to combine the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI to build internal tools radically faster. Building in Retool fits with how you develop software today—deploy it anywhere, connect to any internal service, import your libraries, debug with your toolchain, and share it securely to users—ensuring good and well-governed software by default. Retool is used by industry leaders such as Amazon, American Express, DoorDash, OpenAI, and Mercedes Benz for mission critical custom software across operations, billing, and customer support.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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DbSchema
Wise Coders
DbSchema is for visual designing the schema in a team, deploy and document the schema. Other integrated features like data explorer, visual query editor, data generator, etc., makes DbSchema an every-day tool for everybody who interacts with databases. DbSchema supports all relational and No-SQL databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MariaDB, Redshift, Snowflake, Google and more. DbSchema is reverse-engineering the database schema from the database and visualize it as diagrams. You will interact with the database using diagrams and visual tools. DbSchema model is using its copy of schema structure, independent from the database. This allows the schema deployment on multiple databases, save the design model to file, store it in GIT and design the schema in a team, design the schema without database connectivity, compare different versions of the schema and generate SQL migration scripts.Starting Price: $63 one time payment -
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SQLGate
CHEQUER
SQLGate is a simple but powerful IDE for multiple SQL databases. As an integrated database management and development solution, it simplifies the construction and operation of databases. It is customized for seven different databases that make up 83.2% of the DBMS market. These include Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Tibero, and PostgreSQL. SQLGate makes it easier and quicker to deal with databases holding large amounts of data. Multiple Languages available: Korean, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, etc..Starting Price: Free -
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Aqua Data Studio
AquaFold, an Idera, Inc. company
Aqua Data Studio is a multiple-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for data. It provides benefits to a variety of data-centric roles, allowing them to manage a wide range of data sources. Aqua Data Studio provides scalable, cross-platform data management, supporting IT and data-centric specialists, including developers, database administrators, as well as data analysts, data modelers, and data architects. Simplifies tedious tasks involving SQL queries, data, result sets, schema, data models, files, instances, servers, as well as automation. Aqua Data Studio can be installed on the three popular operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux. The graphical user interface can display the nine of the most widely spoken languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. Aqua Data Studio supports over 40 of the most popular data source platforms, including relational, NoSQL, as well as managed cloud data sourceStarting Price: $499 per user per year -
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DbGate
Sprinx Systems
DbGate is a cross-platform SQL + NoSQL client that runs on Windows, macOS, Linux as desktop app, or in Docker - and then entirely in your browser. It has very powerful data browser, which allows you to quickly find or modify, what you need, even when using complicated relations. There are many filtering options allowing you in few clicks define quite complex conditions. You could of course use classical SQL editor with code completion or query designer. DbGate also has capability of design queries on NoSQL databases and event join results with SQL databases. Database compare tool is very fast, as it uses already cached DB models. You could browse and filter objects by type (table, view, procedure function) and by comparing status (equal, changed, added, removed). You could also deploy changes to database. Quite new feature is DbGate Cloud - online storage for connections and SQL scripts. You could also share folders with connections with others, with role-base permission access.Starting Price: Free -
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dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a comprehensive platform with an intuitive graphical user interface and robust functionality that enables users to handle a variety of database-related tasks both on-premises and in the cloud. Key Features: T-SQL editor with intelligent code completion, debugging, formatting, and more Database schema and data comparison and synchronization Source Control with support for all popular version control systems Visual database designer with ER diagrams. Visual Query Builder for constructing complex T-SQL queries Data import and export Data generator of high-quality test data Real-time database monitoring Query Profiler with analysis and optimization Data analysis, visualization, and reporting Automatic database documenting Task automation via the Command line dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a powerful alternative to SSMS. It offers the features of the default SQL Server IDE along with many additional tools and options.Starting Price: $229.95
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TablePlus
TablePlus InC
Modern, native client with intuitive GUI tools to create, access, query & edit multiple databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, Cassandra, Snowflake, Oracle, Redis.Starting Price: $59.00 -
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Forest Admin
Forest Admin
Forest Admin is a low-code internal tool solution that helps developers rapidly equip their business teams with internal tools such as fully-featured admin panels, dashboards, and database manipulation tools that are tailored to their operations and ready to scale. All you need is to connect a data source and a fully-featured admin panel is auto-generated from your data in a few moments. Then easily customize it with low-code components to meet your unique needs. Here is what you can do with Forest Admin: - Leverage out-of-the-box CRUD, Search and Filtering functionalities to manage your data. - Set up Dev, Staging and Production environments to control every step of your development process. - Assign different Roles and manage granular permissions. Create different Layouts for each of your Teams. - Enforce two-factor authentication for all users - Change the look of Forest Admin to match your company's branding. - Trigger custom actions. And more!Starting Price: $0.00/month -
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dbForge Edge
Devart
dbForge Edge is the newest Devart product - the multidatabase software solution covers all database-related jobs, allowing its users to accelerate the tasks' completion, save costs, and improve overall productivity. A set of powerful features applies to all most popular database management systems - MySQL and MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Notice the most helpful features of dbForge Edge: Database design & development. Convert ER diagrams to actual databases or reverse-engineer databases. SQL coding assistance. Visual query building. Query profiling. Database comparison & synchronization. Deploy changes to the target databases on different platforms. Data management. Data import/export. Data analysis and reporting. Database administration.Starting Price: $99.95 -
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JackDB
JackDB
Write and execute queries in a fully interactive SQL editor. JackDB has everything you'd want in a database client, including: syntax highlighting, code formatting, and intelligent autocompletion. Snippets allow your most useful SQL queries to be saved and shared. Simply write and save any query in JackDB, and share the snippet publicly with your team. Whenever anyone updates a snippet, everyone gets access to its latest version. Security is our highest priority at JackDB. Roles are a very convenient and secure way to restrict database access to authorized users and provision new users with access to data sources. Explore everything in your database, not just tables and views. View your indexes, schemas, and other important system details such as tablespaces and user sessions.Starting Price: $49 per user per month -
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HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL is free software, and has the aim to be easy to learn. "Heidi" lets you see and edit data and structures from computers running one of the database systems MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Invented in 2002 by Ansgar, HeidiSQL belongs to the most popular tools for MariaDB and MySQL worldwide. Free for everyone, OpenSource. Connect to multiple servers in one window. Supported database systems: MariaDB, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Connect to servers via commandline. Connect via SSH tunnel, or pass SSL settings. Create and edit tables, views, stored routines, triggers and scheduled events. Generate nice SQL-exports, compress these afterwards, or put them on the clipboard. Export from one server/database directly to another server/database. Manage user-privileges, import text-files, export table rows as CSV, HTML, XML, SQL, LaTeX, Wiki Markup and PHP Array. Browse and edit table-data using a comfortable grid.Starting Price: $0 -
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EMS SQL Management Studio
EMS Software
EMS SQL Management Studio for PostgreSQL is a complete solution for PostgreSQL database administration and development. The single workbench provides you with must-have tools for managing PostgreSQL databases and objects, as well as for database design, migration, extraction, query building, data import and export, database comparison, and running service tasks. Get access to all databases and their objects from a single console and manage them with a user-friendly interface. You can create and modify all server and database objects, set necessary properties, and view detailed info in advanced visual editors. Transfer structure changes from development to production database automatically with Compare databases tool. Create ER diagrams for newly developed databases to quickly deploy them. Create database maintenance tasks with advanced options and let SQL Studio run them on a regular basis.Starting Price: $260 one-time payment -
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DrawSQL
DrawSQL
With DrawSQL you can design, visualize, and collaborate on entity relationship diagrams for your databases. Easily visualize your database schema and see how everything fits together. Having a living document of your app schema helps when architecting a new feature or onboarding a new team member. Invite your teammates to collaborate on your database diagrams. With drawSQL as a single source of truth, no need to manually sync diagram files between different developers and offline tools anymore. Create professional diagrams that stand out. Unlike other database clients, drawSQL's editor is easy to use, looks nice, and focuses on helping you visualize your database schemas without being bloated with other database management features. Create a diagram for your app database in less than 15 minutes. Work together to design, model, and document the database schema of your app. Provides diagram versioning and access controls.Starting Price: $15 per month -
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Beekeeper Studio
Beekeeper Studio
Encrypt your connection with SSL, or tunnel through SSH. Save a connection password and Beekeeper Studio will encrypt it. Our built-in editor provides syntax highlighting and auto-complete suggestions for your tables so you can work quickly and easily. Open dozens of tabs so you can work quickly without having to switch windows. Table DDL and data views get their own tabs too! Easily save and organize commonly used queries so you can use them again and again across all your connections. Beekeeper's SQL table creator lets you create, edit, and delete table columns in just a few clicks. Export a table to CSV, JSON, JSONL, or SQL with just a few clicks. Optionally apply filters to export only the data you need.Starting Price: $7 per month -
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Kangaroo
Kangaroo
SQL client and admin tool for popular databases. A simple and Intuitive GUI helps you focus on data and finish your work quickly. Focus on the experience of editing, and make you feel smooth when working with it. GTK and Adwaita with Vala-based native application, focus on performance, focus on responsible. MySQL/PostgreSQL connection is more complicated because it supports multi-authentication methods, so you should prepare material before making a connection. Your connection could be through the private network over SSH(and over proxy), the built-in SSH client could help you do it. Drag and drop an SQLite database file from the file manager into the connection home page, the connection is created quickly. Create an empty file with SQLite file extension, then drag and drop it on the connection home page to create a connection. GTK4 has HiDPI support on all platforms, all GTK4 apps will scale with the system scale setting automatically.Starting Price: Free -
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Sqlectron
Sqlectron
A simple and lightweight SQL client desktop/terminal with cross-database and platform support. A desktop application with a simple interface. Sign and notarize builds for macOS. Supports PostgreSQL and MySQL. Sqlectronhas also has a GUI interface called sqlectron-gui. Most of the time you should not worry about files, because Sqlectron will manage the configuration for you. The paging is not done in SQL query, instead, it is done during the results rendering. Supports PostgreSQL, Redshift, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Cassandra, and SQLite.Although it is possible to change files manually, it is usually better to just use the UI since it allows you to change any of the settings from there.Starting Price: Free -
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QStudio
TimeStored
QStudio is a free, modern SQL editor supporting over 30 databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DuckDB. It offers features such as server browsing for easy viewing of tables, variables, functions, and configuration settings; SQL syntax highlighting; code completion; the ability to query servers directly from the editor; and built-in charts for data visualization. QStudio runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, providing particularly good support for kdb+, Parquet, PRQL, and DuckDB. Additional functionalities include data pivoting similar to Excel, exporting data to Excel or CSV, and AI-powered tools like Text2SQL for generating queries from plain English, Explain-My-Query for code walkthroughs, and Explain-My-Error for debugging assistance. Simply send the query you want and select the chart type to draw a chart. Send queries straight from within the editor to any of your servers. All data structures are handled perfectly.Starting Price: Free -
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DBHawk
Datasparc
Using DBHawk, our customers were able to comply with GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, and other regulations and were able to implement SOD. Self-Service BI & Ad-Hoc Reporting Tool with feature to define Data Access Policy, Connect to multiple Data sources, Build Powerful SQL Charts and data Dashboards. DBHawk SQL editor is an advanced editor that allows users to build, edit, and run database queries with a web-based interface. DBHawk Query Builder is supported with all major databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, MySQL, DB2, Amazon Redshift, Hive, Amazon Athena. Database SQL tasks and batch job automation with a web-based centralized tool. Secure access to SQL, NoSQL and Cloud databases with our all-in-one data platform. Trusted by our customers to protect and access their data. Centralized Security, Auditing and insights about your user’s activities.Starting Price: $99.00/month/user -
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Toad
Quest
Toad Software is a database management toolset from Quest that database developers, database administrators and data analysts use to manage both relational and non-relational databases using SQL. Take a proactive approach to database management. Re-focus your teams on more strategic initiatives, and move your business forward in today’s data-driven economy. Toad solutions enable you to maximize your investment in data technology by empowering data professionals to automate processes, minimize risks and cut project delivery timelines by nearly half. Lower the total cost of ownership for new applications by reducing the impact of inefficient code on productivity, future development cycles, performance and availability. See why millions of users trust Toad for their most critical systems and data environments. It’s time to gain the competitive edge. Work smarter and meet the demands of today’s database environments. -
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SQLyog
Webyog
A Powerful MySQL Development and Administration Solution. SQLyog Ultimate enables database developers, administrators, and architects to visually compare, optimize, and document schemas. SQLyog Ultimate includes a power tool to automate and schedule the synchronization of data between two MySQL hosts. Create the job definition file using the interactive wizard. The tool does not require any installation on the MySQL hosts. You can use any host to run the tool. SQLyog Ultimate includes a power tool to interactively synchronize data. Run the tool in attended mode to compare data from source and target before taking action. Using the intuitive display, compare data on source and target for every row to decide whether it should be synchronized in which direction. SQLyog Ultimate includes a power tool to interactively compare and synchronize schema. View the differences between tables, indexes, columns, and routines of two databases. -
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Nucleon Database Master
Nucleon Software
Nucleon Database Master is a modern, powerful, intuitive and easy to use database query, administration, and management software with a consistent and modern user interface. Database Master simplifies managing, monitoring, querying, editing, visualizing, designing relational and NoSQL DBMS. Database Master allows you to execute extended SQL, JQL and C# (Linq) query scripts, provides all database objects such as tables, views, procedures, packages, columns, indexes, relationships (constraints), collections, triggers and other database objects.Starting Price: $99 one-time payment -
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MySQL Workbench
Oracle
MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more. MySQL Workbench is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, model, generate, and manage databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, forward and reverse engineering, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that normally require much time and effort. MySQL Workbench delivers visual tools for creating, executing, and optimizing SQL queries. The SQL Editor provides color syntax highlighting, auto-complete, reuse of SQL snippets, and execution history of SQL. The Database Connections Panel enables developers to easily manage standard database connections. -
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Sequelize
Sequelize
Sequelize is a modern TypeScript and Node.js ORM for Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite SQL Server, and more. Features solid transaction support, relations, eager and lazy loading, read replication, and more. Define your models with ease and make optional use of automatic database synchronization. Define associations between models and let Sequelize handle the heavy lifting. Mark data as deleted instead of removing it once and for all from the database. Transactions, migrations, strong typing, JSON querying, lifecycle events (hooks), and more. Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM tool for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Amazon Redshift, and Snowflake’s Data Cloud. It features solid transaction support, relations, eager and lazy loading, read replication, and more. To connect to the database, you must create a Sequelize instance. -
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SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Microsoft
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for managing any SQL infrastructure, from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database. SSMS provides tools to configure, monitor, and administer instances of SQL Server and databases. Use SSMS to deploy, monitor, and upgrade the data-tier components used by your applications, and build queries and scripts. Use SSMS to query, design, and manage your databases and data warehouses, wherever they are - on your local computer, or in the cloud. -
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RazorSQL
RazorSQL
RazorSQL is an SQL query tool, database browser, SQL editor, and database administration tool for Windows, macOS, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris. RazorSQL has been tested on over 40 databases, can connect to databases via either JDBC or ODBC. Browse database objects such as schemas, tables, columns, primary and foreign keys, views, indexes, procedures, functions, and more. Visual tools to create, alter, describe, execute, and drop database objects such as tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and more. Includes multi-tabular display of queries with options for filtering, sorting, searching, and much more. Import data from various formats such as delimited files, Excel spreadsheets, and fixed-width files. Includes a robust relational database (HSQLDB) that is up and running with no manual configuration out of the box.Starting Price: $99.95 one-time payment
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