At work; as a labs project; Kaushik Das; who is one of our seriously talented developers has been working on studying the SQL Server Schema --- just for the fun of it. To turn this learning into practical implementation instead of just theory; we decided; to build a web based administration console which users can use manage SQL server instances that they have access to using a web based administration console. This; is how eFORCE SQL DB Administrator was born.
Put simply; the first version of SQLDBAdmin by Kaushik; in it's scope and basic philosophy is pretty much like any other web based administration console for SQL server; one common example being - Microsoft Web Data Administrator.
We do realize that this problem has been solved multiple times before; and we also realize that as of today SQL DB Admin happens to be a 'me too' product; but what we believe makes SQL DB Admin worth giving a try are the following facts:
- Looks and feels just like the SQL Server 2005 Database Management Studio - so there is very little learning-through-fiddling that needs to be done.
- It is free and open source; which means you can not just download it but actually modify the source code for your implementations if needed.
- We will be working really hard to add new features to SQL DB Admin which might make it easy to do day-to-day administration tasks. Some examples include: scheduling a database backup, compressing a database, re-indexing a table. etc.
As of today you can grab a copy of the SQL DB Admin code base by visiting its codeplex site.
As a matter of fact; this is one of those projects that we just started for 'fun' and now that we have something that works; we are seriously looking at adding new features that give you; dear reader; reasons to download it and use it while comparing it with multiple other web based SQL server administrators that are out there.
If you; dear reader; have a task or a feature in mind that you or your database-administrators do regularly on SQL server administration front and you would like to perform the same tasks through a web based console; let us know about the feature and we will try out best to squeeze those features into the road map for SQL DB Administrator.
In the meantime; if you want to grab a copy of the latest code base and start using it in it's current beta stage; you can get a copy from the SQL DB Admin codeplex website.
We genuinely and sincerely hope that this product; makes your life; as a database administrator; developer or anyone who has to manage multiple remote databases behind the firewall; just a little more easier. We will continue to add new features to SQL DB administrator and then blog about those features when we add them into the product.
Wish us luck.
More open source goodness coming soon.
Stay tuned.
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