Lightning Tools released the Web Part, which allows you to connect to database directly, without using BDC. Having direct access to tables, stored procedures is that functionality with WSS and MOSS Standard didn’t have and a lot client suffered from that...
In these days I was working on the search issue in SharePoint 2007, which led me to the interesting behaviour of BDC Permissions. We had the following errors in MOSS crawl log bdc2://<guid> The parameter is incorrect. (Could not create a security...