[dba-SQLServer] Browsing tool?

One simple way is to just create a text file and then rename it to .udl.  Once you open it you can set up a connection to it using the avaialble Providers.

-Chris Mackin

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Andy
Lacey
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:53 PM
To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-SQLServer] Browsing tool?


Hi folks

Next week I'm going to see a potential client (hurrah!). He has a 3rd party
package specific to companies in the printing industry, and wants a simple
contact management system which will link to the client data in this
package. I suspect (but am not sure) that the package uses a SQL Server
database. If I'm correct (and I've already asked how best to see if it's SQL
Server d/b, thanks for help on that) and it is SQL Server then I'd like to
see if I can link to it successfully. So, if I start from the worst case
scenario that they won't have any software capable of linking to SQL Server
does anyone have or know of any free utility which will fit on a CD that I
could use just to look at a database, whatever the OS and whatever the SQL
vintage?

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

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