You may have noticed of late that I'm spending quite a lot of time talking about and exploring SQL Data Services (SDS); today that work got a lot easier with Cerebrata's release of their "Omega" client for SDS. I've never heard of these guys before but looking at the Cerebrata website it seems they do browser-based admin tools for SQL Server and MySQL; I'm not really interested in browsing my SQL Server databases from a web browser but for SDS it feels much more applicable.
Omega.SDSClient is a Silverlight application which enables it to have a much richer interface than you'd normally expect in a web browser. Here's the welcome screen:
Once you get through login the Omega.SDSClient pulls back a list of all your authorities (yes, I've created quite a few over the past 8 months or so):
and clicking through on one of those authorities shows you all of the containers in that authority and of course you can click through to see your list of entities as well:
Lastly, what you really want to do is look at the actual data so clicking on an entity shows all of the attributes of that entity which you can then edit accordingly:
Colour me impressed, this is really good for version 1. They are currently working on building in the ability to query and handling of BLOB data which will be released "in the days to come". In addition I'd like the ability to do client-side filtering of the results and perhaps be able to browse all of my authorities, containers and entities in a tree explorer as well.
Launch the Omega.SDSClient at https://onlinedemo.cerebrata.com/omega.sdsclient/current/default.aspx and join the discussion on the SDS forum.
-Jamie