The Daily Grind 981

by Mike Gunderloy
Friday, September 29, 2006

And the week ends with a whimper rather than a bang. See you Monday!

Data Dictionary Creator - Rapid database documentation - Free tool for managing SQL Server database documentation in extended properties with export to WordML, HTML, XML, or Excel.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta - After installing SP1 beta, you can install this to work with SQL Server 2005 EE.

Windows PowerShell Quick Reference - O'Reilly is launching a new series of affordable ($12.99) short (120 pages) reference works.
A new era of network sniffing has begun...Network Monitor 3.0 - News from the NetMon team. (via Jason Haley)

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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.