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SQL Server Express 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2012

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Hello, I have successfully installed and am successfully using MS SQL Server Express 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2012.    I am using the 2008 R2 version because that is the latest version supported by the 3rd-party MS/SQL DB system I use on this server.

I now wish to install MS SQL Server Management Studio Express (version ???) on this server, so that I can take advantage of the suite of included utilities.   Which of the many versions should I download and install?  Microsoft is very ambiguous with the downloads and naming, and so I will need the exact module name of SQL Server Management Studio Express to install as presented from the confusing list on the Microsoft SQL download site.  This is all x64.

Thanks, Steve Lingis
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