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Favourite Tools?

  • March 20, 2003 at 11:01 am

    #451599

    I too have tended to use the included tools for most things. As I have evaluated many third party tools, with the exception of Log Explorer (which I use), they are often turn out to be only marginally better than what MS provides out of the box. However, I have recently found something that truly adds needed functionality for me as a DBA. I would suggest that anyone with a critical SQL Server instance check out Precise Indepth for SQL Server!

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  • March 20, 2003 at 3:09 pm

    #451632

    I used DBArtisan (mainly because we had Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server). Liked it alot!

  • March 20, 2003 at 3:17 pm

    #451633

    I have recently started using Visual Studio.NET as an alternative to EM. It has a similar tree view interface for exploring SQL Servers and has the ability to edit stored procs using sourcesafe! (yay!) We use SQL Litespeed for backups...it is sensational. I am currently evaluating other tools and am quite impressed with NETIQ Diagnostic manager and Quest Spotlight on SQL Server.

  • March 23, 2003 at 2:36 pm

    #451812

    How about the SQLEXECMS util?

    it gives you tree-views, object-comparison (schema, no data), server-status (disk etc.) , dependencies, and autocpmplete in the SQL panel :->

    No to mention exporting recordsets to excel, xml, text (as insert-statements!), etc.

    and it's FREE$$$! (you can find it in this site's download section)

    definitely my thumbs-up!

    - Avi

  • March 25, 2003 at 2:53 am

    #452010

    The only product that we have purchased is the RedGate bundle. It works well for us.

    I am currently looking at NetIQ's Management suite, but I don't think management will go for it...

    Most of the time for me it's QA, Profiler and I graph all the stats etc in Excel...

    Clive Strong

    sqlsrvr_dba@hotmail.com

  • January 30, 2006 at 3:36 pm

    #617844

    this one is a very handy tool that tackles the database (and TSQL) version control and change managment problem, and also offers the integration of SQL Server and SourceSafe:

     

    http://www.nobhillsoft.com/randolph.aspx

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