Free SQL Server Monitor Gadget for your Vista Sidebar

SSIS Junkie - Announcing SQL Server Monitor Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar

"It gives me great pleasure to announce that as of today, Conchango are making available version 1 of our SQL Server Monitor Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar.

The gadget does exactly what it says on the tin; it monitors a specified SQL Server database for various metrics and displays them on the Windows Vista Sidebar. It is provided for use by SQL Server DBAs that require a nice'n'easy way of monitoring important metrics on their SQL Server installations. ..."

Time to put your Vista sidebar to work...

This looks like a very quick and easy way to monitor a SQL Server database. Something that might some in handy if you have a problem DB that needs size monitoring.

As an interesting side note, the download is being hosted on Microsoft's beta LiveDrive (aka SkyDrive), folders.live.com

(via SQL Server Code - SQL Server Monitor Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar)