Aaron Hoffman's Blog

AKA (for google-fu): asp.net mvc 5 web site administration tool asp.net mvc 5 web configuration tool asp.net mvc 5 identity asp.net mvc 5 membership I have missed the asp.net Web Site Administration Tool that used to be included with Visual Studio. I created an alternative for asp.net mvc 4 you can find here . For asp.net mvc 5, I created an  Azure Site Extension  to provide the same functionality. It can be run from VS on your local machine as well as installed as a site extension on Azure. Links: extension:  https://www.siteextensions.net/packages/AspNetUserMaintenanceAzureSiteExtension/ github repo:  https://github.com/Stonefinch/AspNetUserMaintenanceAzureSiteExtension Hope this helps, Aaron UPDATE These are now published to nuget.org  https://www.nuget.org/packages/AspNetUserMaintenanceAzureSiteExtension/

Often when working with a new data set I'll run these queries to learn more about each column of data. https://gist.github.com/aaronhoffman/eb30805ee2f5cafc64152dd1def800bd For example, you can run a single query to union together aggregate data on each numeric column. Result looks something like this: Hope this helps, Aaron