SAM-200046 (12/11/2009)

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A couple people have ripped me about the only available on Vista and Windows Server 2008 line. Clearly it will work with Windows 7, but that OS was...

FYI, just got an answer from MS Azure support forum and you can also use Azure with an OLEDB connection string, unofficially. Here it is:

Provider=SQLNCLI10;Server=tcp:yourServer.database.windows.net;Database=yourDb;Uid=yourUser@yourServer;Pwd=yourPassword;

However, there seems to be better...

Just tried it with QueryExPlus using the ODBC connection and that works.

I guess so, but we'd just have to figure out what the OLEDB and JDBC connection strings would be. MS only provides details for the ODBC connection string.

Wish Azure worked with 3rd party tools, like SQL Buddy or Query Express.

For QueryExpress v3.9, able to connect to Azure via the SQL login. But not able to select default...

There's also xSQL Profiler which you can get at

http://www.xsqlsoftware.com/

It's not as free as the open source SQL 2k5 express profiler but it has some other useful features like...

Now there's an alternative without having to install the commercial or developer editions of MS SQL Server 2005.

And this alternative is standalone as well. No need to do any...