October 7, 2022 at 12:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Assembling Your Own Toolbox
October 7, 2022 at 1:28 pm
One of the folders on my machine is called "DevTools" with the following contents. Some that I've highlighted in bold are ones that I use often and/or I think are particularly amazing. Sorry, nothing SQL Server specific for me these days.
.NET Assembly Strong-Name Signer
AdExplorer
AdFind.exe
AgentRansack_828.exe
baretail.exe
BeCyIconGrabber.exe
Calc
cassandramanager_inst.exe
ColorPix.exe
curl
DepedencyWalker
dhcpsrv2.5.2
DiffMerge
DnsDataView
DomainHostingView
DotNet Reflector
DotNetResourceExtractor
dotPeek
Err_6.4.5.exe
ESEDatabaseView
Expresso RegEx
Extracting_Embedded_Image
Fiddler2Setup.exe
Fiddler4Setup.exe
FileSpy
FileZilla FTP Client
FindAndReplaceInMultipleFiles
FindAndRunRobot
FindPrivateKey.exe
Foxit PDF Reader
gifsicle-1.89-win64
HTML Help Workshop
HxD
ILSpy3.2
Image Composite Editor
InteropSignatureToolkit
irfranview
JRuler.exe
klogg
LdapAdmin.exe
ldp.exe
LinqPad
MacroCreatorPortable
MongoDB Client - robo3t-1.1.1-windows-x86_64-c93c6b0
MySQL Workbench 6.3.8 CE (winx64)
ntRadPing
objsid-ResolveUserSID
OpenHardwareMonitor
Paint.NET
ProcessExplorer
pscp.exe
putty.exe
puttygen.exe
regScanner
Resource Hacker
ResourceExtract
ResourceHacker
RichCopy 4.0
Screen Recorder Old
Screen Recorder Wink
spacesniffer_1_3_0_2
SqirlzMorph
SqliteBrowser3
SslScan
SuperOrca
SyslogWatcherSetup-5.1.0.msi
TailBlazer.exe
Terminals
Undelete
UndeleteDiskDigger
UnFREEz.exe
WebServiceStudio20
Win64OpenSSL-1_1_1q.exe
Win64OpenSSL_Light-1_1_1q.exe
WinSCP
Wireshark-win64-3.4.3.exe
WmiCodeCreator
WmiExplorer.exe
XPathVisualizer 1.1
October 7, 2022 at 2:19 pm
One place to keep important SQL-related information for me is SSC's Briefcase feature. For a while after I became a member it wasn't working (at least for me using Chrome on my PC). In the Forums the link to save to Briefcase is a button at the top of the page. For scripts and articles there's a text link on the right side of the page. Every now and then I reference my list of items
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October 7, 2022 at 11:22 pm
There are drawbacks to assembling your own toolbox by gathering tools from different sources. Steve mentioned one, maintaining the tools over time. There's also the inevitable inconsistency from one tool to the next. There's likely to be massive inconsistency in T-SQL coding style, conventions, and formatting. If the sources include blog post scripts, then many of the tools are likely to be very simplistic because they were written for a very specific purpose. Further, there's likely to be an enormous number of blog post scripts with a lot of overlapping functionality between them. They will not be organized into tools offering everything needed for particular tasks.
These are the problems I tried to solve for the community with SQLFacts, a free suite of 40 tools for SQL Server database engineers.
There's a series of five articles about SQLFacts right here on SQLServerCentral (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)! The toolkit has grown a lot even since those articles were written.
Creator of SQLFacts, a free suite of tools for SQL Server database professionals.
October 8, 2022 at 12:45 am
One place to keep important SQL-related information for me is SSC's Briefcase feature. For a while after I became a member it wasn't working (at least for me using Chrome on my PC). In the Forums the link to save to Briefcase is a button at the top of the page. For scripts and articles there's a text link on the right side of the page. Every now and then I reference my list of items
I do that too, Steve. Great feature, SSC!!
Rod
October 10, 2022 at 2:56 pm
One of the folders on my machine is called "DevTools" with the following contents. Some that I've highlighted in bold are ones that I use often and/or I think are particularly amazing. Sorry, nothing SQL Server specific for me these days.
Nice list. Do you use Chocolatey or another package manager for these? I used that and it's wonderful for resetting up a list of stuff. When I get a new machine, I look over my list to see if there's something I no longer use and then delete it before building the new system.
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