LINQPad offers interesting alternative to SQL Mgmt Studio

Nice!

http://www.linqpad.net/

LINQPad lets you use the new LINQ language and execute queries in a lightweight environment outside of Visual Studio and SQL Management Studio.

Pros:

• Make simple queries to a database for debugging, etc.
• Get results with a LINQ query before using it in managed code.
• Use LINQ to debug data regardless of the platform of the app that uses the data. For instance, a .Net 1.1 app could be debugged with LINQ using LINQPad.

Cons:

• Queries run slower than straight SQL.
• Only works against a Mircosoft SQL Server database.