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Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals is out, trial can be downloaded from here.

New branches of the main trunk has been released from the software ‘Mii’, named Branch A ‘Adam’ and Branch B ‘Thomas’. Feel free to poke around in the screenshot gallery!

Nov CTP for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 (for Excel and Visio)

Not a final version, only a CTP, but with promising results.

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition RC1
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta
• How to install
• Connectivity Tools for SQL Server Mobile, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005
• SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition Books Online

New Data Dude version.

OlyMars has just released a new beta (login required) of their ORM tool. Among the new features are multiple file generation mode and some important bug fixes, you are encouraged to upgrade!

Download it from here, supports derivation, association, etc.

Download it from here, may save some documenting work.

Article can be found here.

A list of fixes can be found here. BTW, SQL 2005 Post SP1 hot fixes are here.

This wasn’t fixed in Sp1, so here is the sp1 fix.

Patch