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I use SQL SMS daily to manipulate data.

A nice tool to have when you want to change data in database on remote a computer that has a SQL server. You can change the data recorded in the database without being log into the transaction log if you know what you are doing.

I've worked as a database developer for 25 years. I created an account because there are a lot of people posting misinformation.

SQL Server Management Studio is simply a front-end application used to query databases (distributed by Microsoft as part of the SQL Server database). Everything done in SMSS can be done through applications. Simply having the tool does not allow you to edit data - that is dependent on the privileges assigned by the database administrator. If you have appropriate privileges you could update data using SMSS, but you could just as easily send the same SQL command through a custom application or similar tools.

There are a lot of theories related to packets, stats and databases getting tossed at the wall, but as a poster mentioned earlier in the thread, if you could simply post a MAC or even IP address identifying any voting machine of being Internet-accessible, that alone would be a huge story that would be investigated - no need for the more convoluted theories. That type of network traffic is monitored and reviewed in IT organizations around the world all day long, and you know the NSA does as well. Posting that proof is simple, if it exists. No one posts 37TB files to share information, and that much data can absolutely be split up and shared, if it amounts to anything. Many IT organizations have moved beyond TB and are dealing with petabytes.

CRUD

Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD)

That’s what admin access, regardless of software used, can do to data in a database.

I’ve built websites that all use MySQL databases and I always use PhpMyAdmin via cpanel but could connect via ssh and type SQL commands into my computer.