Another very nice and useful FREE tool you might want to check out:

http://www.toadsoft.com/toadsqlserver/toad_sqlserver.htm

They have a recent version 4.5 update.

Russ Brown (Using C#2010/SQL Server 2008)

"Nice to have" compared to SSMSE for SQL Server 2008 Express.  This freeware version of TOAD is better than SSMSE.

There are a lot of little things but some of the ones I like are the use of tabs, export options (11), codes snippets in the editor, more options in the object explorer, maybe a little better printing.

Russ Brown (Using C#2010/SQL Server 2008)

Hi Russell,



Thanks for sharing this info.



I was trying to use the "Query Builder" but it is not available "Not Licensed", I could not find in there site if this is a feature not available in the freeware, or if I need to get a freeware license for this to work, do you know anything about it?

Edhy Rijo