By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

Any of the Java-based database management GUIs tend to work fine (well, kludgy, but acceptable for simple tasks) since they are using the SQL Server JDBC driver.

When trying to connect to SQL Server Express 2005 I'm getting the following error:quote:An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file C:\Documents ...