SQL Server 2012 Metro GUI Plug-In
I’m not sure what to make of the new SQL Server 2012 “Metro” GUI Plug-In for Microsoft SQL Server 2012. What do you think?
I’m not sure what to make of the new SQL Server 2012 “Metro” GUI Plug-In for Microsoft SQL Server 2012. What do you think?
Wow! Wasn’t this post meant to go live April 1st? 🙂
It’s hard to evaluate based on those colors. ugh. (Did you pick those)
That’s not Metro. That’s garish colours with a couple squares thrown in.
I’d see a possible Metro SSMS as having a front page with tiles for registered servers. Once selected, you go to a Pivot/Panorama control with pages for “management”, “configuration”, “query”, …
But at this point, I think we need a lot of guidance from Microsoft on what Metro MDI desktop apps should look like. SSMS – like many power-user desktop applications (they ain’t “apps”) NEED multiple windows open for cut/paste and information lookup. Switching between full-screen query windows (for example) just won’t cut it.
How does Metro deliver that? I don’t know, but I suspect we’ll start seeing attempts over the next couple years.
But this isn’t it. Not even close.
Bleah! No thank you.
Oh dear, I do hope the colors are configurable. And to be a metro interface wouldn’t it need to have the tiles show a quick glance of data (like unread email count, etc.)? So what db health stats are useful with that approach? I think they could take cues from 3rd party monitoring products which have graphical dashboards for that.
It is quite interesting that so many thought this was a real attempt at “Metro”ing SSMS rather than just myself with a bit of time on my hands and an open instance of Powerpoint… 😉
So where Metro is really for small screens on mobile phone and ipads, why is there a need to move super low res graphics onto desk top apps, its not like we have a 4800bps moden as a bottle neck any more. This is just part of the MS Marketing hype and the internal power strugger between WinDiv and DevDiv in MS. Of course is we are planning to have SQL SSMS 2012 on our mobile phones it would be perfect 🙂
“Perfect” is a bit of a stretch… 🙂
You’re an evil man, Tim. Pure evil.