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Via Urs: He recently discovered a "missing link" on the microsoft.com page: The Web Data Admin. This ASP.NET based administration tool allows to create and modify SQL server or MSDE databases and execute TSQL queries against them. The installation routine however seems to be a bit troublesome, not allowing to make any configuration (i.e. virtual IIS root or installation path) and Mike Gale describes the following SQL 7 issue on p2p.wrox.com:

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The data administration tool (WebDataAdmin.msi) installs SQL Server 2000
DMO DLL's.  These "break" an installation of SQL 7 Enterprise manager on
that machine (if it exists).

See MS KB article
PRB: Errors When You Redistribute SQL Server 2000 DMO Clients in SQL
Server 7.0 Environment (Q295026)
For details.

</quote>

Once you got the ASP.NET bits, it's a wonderful thing.