With the official introduction of SQL Azure (August CTP) on August 18th 2009 it wasn’t really intuitive to connect to your SQL Azure Database. Sure, there is an official workaround but that honestly just doesn’t cut it at the moment.
So to quickly start working without any fuzz, Maarten Balliauw and myself figured out we could quickly and easily create a functional tool that would allow us to easily manage our cloud databases. This became the project SQL Azure Manager, which can be roughly defined as:
SQL Azure Manager is a community effort to quickly enable connecting to your SQL Azure database(s) and perform basic tasks.
And it does just that. Note that it is a first conceptual release. And that it is highly unstable. But it does the trick. At least at a bare minimum. And for the time being that is enough.
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Disclaimer: The current version is “as is” and is only intended to give an impression on what we are trying to achieve. We are still far, far away from a stable production environment.
Be sure to drop me a line with your ideas, suggestions or bugs.
Ingredients
There are three features that are absolutely paramount to the initial development of SQL Azure Manager:
- It should be lightweight
- It should provide the least amount of effort to deploy
- It should provide support for basic operations
We succeeded in just doing this. Now is the time to focus our attention on stability and expanding features.
What to expect