Posted by ZeldorBlat on 09/12/06 15:29

Alex wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking into moving my desktop system at work to Linux from Windows
> XP, and one tool I've yet to find a suitable replacement for is MS SQL
> Enterprise Manager. I mainly need to query MS SQL databases from
> Linux, and management tasks (monitor backups, services, etc) can be
> done on the MS SQL servers themselves. THere was an application I used
> to use on OSX which would connect to a variety of databases, including
> MS SQL, and they had a Linux version of the client .. but can't
> remember the name. But really any Sybase client that can connect to MS
> SQL with some ease will work.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions or ideas ...
>
> Alex

Using "is" with the -m flag you can query MS SQL Server databases. is
also has a whole bunch of other useful and cool stuff:

<http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/is/>

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