Posted by Steve Jorgensen on 10/23/05 09:37

On 22 Oct 2005 23:15:01 -0700, yehaimanish@gmail.com wrote:

>Is there any front IDE for MS SQL as there is MySQL Front for MySQL. I
>am looking for it so that it is easy to quickly add/edit/delete the
>data from the existing table. Please prode the Download URL is there is
>any.
>
>Regards.

Each server doesn't necessarily need a dedicated IDE. Any generic database
IDE that can talk ODBC or has a driver for the particular back-end will work.

The most obvious IDE for MS Sql server is MS Access which, in addition to
being able to link to SQL Server tables as if they were local, also has a
dedicated database format called an ADP which, while alomost useless for
application development, is a splendid user interface for doing ad-hoc work
with SQL Server back-end data.

If you want something free, there's TOAD for MS SQL Server
(http://www.toadsoft.com/toadsqlserver/toad_sqlserver.htm). The free license
expired after 60 days, but they let you download and re-install to keep using
it for free.

Another free thing you can use is OpenOffice. Last time I tried it, I
couldn't get the OpenOffice database access stuff to work, but I understand
that it has been greatly improved since I last tried it.

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