my last post talked about much of my sunday morning spent installing the web data administrator from microsoft and get it working with msde.
now as i am able to log into the web console and connect to my msde instance and a sqlserver 2000 instance on another machine, i can see some web access to my databases.
the ui is a typical web application. one thing that you note is absence of branding from microsoft in this product, naybe because its a beta product or more that that, its a by-product of some weekend code by someone on msde team.
the code itself looks non-production at the moment, as you experience lot of ‘application error’ pages while doing some basic stuff (like navigating to Logins section) which I was not able to consistently reproduce on different machines.
isnt it an attempt to mock oracle 10g’s web enterprise manager? can be. but if it is, then it has a long way to go. oracle web enterprise manager is much faster, neater and functionality rich. best part of oem is the svg powered real time graphs.
i guess i am gonna wait for a much stable version of web data administrator.