MSDE Plus: Cool MSDE tool from the backwaters of the Internet

Back in 1994 I guess it was I used to access email through an ISP called Zeta. They were small, and charged by the hour I believe. I cannot even remember if they had full-time internet. I am not sure that they did. They used to have dialin access to UTS to get USENET news, and I loved this. Thinking back it may have even been 1993. Sure takes me back 🙂

Anyway I have kept looking for tools for MSDE. EVERYTHING on the market has been lacking. The MSDE.BIZ tool is slightly buggy, and lacking ability to add permissions to database objects. This is sort of essential in my view. So I keep looking.

And I have just found a cute tool on my old ISP – Zeta. One of their older members sells a tool that looks better than the other ones on the market. Sure, it is on one of those domains that has the tilde which is quite unfashionable these days, but it works, and seems to work well. There are a few small UI issues here and there that I do not like – like the fact that you have to click cancel after you have finished a backup to exit the backup area, but I would probably program it the same way.

So, where can you get this tool? http://www.zeta.org.au/~extrasql/