SQL Azure Explorer

If you have already started playing around SQL Azure you will have probably stumbled on the limitation the SQL Management studio has. So I think you’ll find SQL Azure Explorer rather useful till Microsoft synchronizes its toolset with the Azure platform.

SQL Azure Explorer is an addin for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that will enable you to manage you SQL Azure Tables just live the Visual Studio Server explorer.

Some of the main features right now is:

• SQL Azure Explorer which contains:
  • Databases
  • Tables with columns
  • Views with columns
  • Stored procedures with parameters
  • Functions with parameters
• Context menus for:
  • Open SQL Editor Window
  • Select Top 100 Rows
  • Script as CREATE for all tables, views, stored procedures and functions
• SQL Editor Window with built in:
  • SQL Execute
  • Off line parser
  • Script formatter