Blogger Problems

I apologize for the lack of posts recently. For some reason the BlogThis button on my Google Toolbar (which I became rather dependent on) has gone buggy....

Quest : Products : Toad for MySQL : Free!

Toad is a capable, and expensive, standard for DB maintenance in large companies, especially among Oracle DBAs. So this is pretty nice:

Quest : Products : Toad for MySQL : Overview: "Toad™ for MySQL FreewareToad™ for MySQL Freeware - Provides a comprehensive solution for MySQL professionals to create and execute queries, as well as build and manage database objects. You'll benefit from the project manager, the formatting feature, version control integration, the database browser, the security manager and an extensive knowledge base called Knowledge Xpert for MySQL. Download Freeware"

Lots of great SQL Server 2005 Express Downloads

Have you visited the SQL Server 2005 Express Downloads page lately?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/

there are so many great tools that you can download, including Reporting Services and a “Business Intelligence Studio” for designing reports, which really surprised me (since you never could use Reporting Services with the previous free versions of SQL). Don't forget Books On-Line for SQL 2005 as well.

I am going to start a new series of posts on SQL Server 2005 in the coming weeks, with my usual focus on T-SQL as opposed to Administration and DBA stuff. There are *lots* of very cool things we can do using the new features in 2005 that make solving many of those “classic” SQL problems very easy.

So download it and install it already! It's free!