Release

Introduction

SQL Azure Manager is a lightweight tool for managing SQL Azure databases. Roughly defined you can say that:

SQL Azure Manager is a community effort to quickly enable connecting to your SQL Azure database(s) and perform basic tasks…

With the development of SQL Azure Manager the following statements as held as rules of thumb:

1. It should provide support for useful (basic) operations
2. It should be lightweight
3. It should provide the least amount of effort to deploy

Taking that into notice, we are currently focusing our attention on stability and expanding features.

Getting started

Run it without installing through: http://hanssens.org/tools/sqlazuremanager/

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.

Screenshots

Roadmap

There is certainly a lot of room for improvement. And don’t worry – at this moment it will keep on updating. Hence the ClickOnce deployment. However, we have to keep in mind that eventually SQL Azure will be compliant with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the near future. Without the workarounds.

Until SSMS is fully compliant with SQL Azure the roadmap consists out of:

• From WinForms to WPF (WPF GUI experts – help!)
• Publish to CodePlex
• Working towards a more stable release

And ofcourse some nice-to-haves – within limited scope:

• Migrate .MDF to SQL Azure
• Reporting services through the application

Revision history

Version 0.1.7 | August 25, 2009

• Proof of concept release
• Added: create and delete databases
• Added: create and delete tables
• Database selection (combobox)
• List: Users/Logins on “master” table
• Executing queries

Version 0.1.0 | August 19, 2009

• Initial release for a brainstorm sessions on first priorities

Credits

Special thanks to Maarten Balliauw for his valuable input and the Splash screen and the icon which are used in the application.