Love SQL 2008 Express RTM but no tools yet...

When you download SQL 2008 Express, the version available currently does not have tools like SQL Management Studio. The tools will be available soon but if you are like me and cannot wait for the tools to become available, you can use Visual Studio 2008 to perform a lot of tasks. Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer allows you to connect to SQL Server 2008 Express RTM and attach databases, view objects, etc. However, let's say you need to grant access to a database to an account so that your web application can use SQL Server 2008 Express. The account that would need access to SQL Express is the account configured for the worker process in IIS. Here are steps to grant read/write access to a database to a user in SQL Server 2008 Express using the command-line interface: