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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

SQL Server Management Tools


SQL Management Studio for SQL Server provides a complete package for all common SQL Server tasks for database administrators and developers.

DBArtisan is a database administration tool from Embarcadero which aims the maximum availability, performance and security of databases including MS SQL Server
DBArtisan provides powerful GUI editor and wizards for DBSa in order to speed routine tasks while minimizing errors for increades productivity.

EMS SQL Manager for SQL Server
EMS SQL Manager for SQL Server is a MS SQL Server administration and database development tool.

Discovery Wizard for SQL Server from Quest Software.
Quest Software is being developing a very useful and handy tool for SQL Server administrators. The SQL tool is in Beta phase and MS SQLServer administrators can download free.
This SQLServer tool enables administrators to gather information about the SQL Server installations in their network.
Discovery tool can find the number of SQL Servers installed, can find out how many databases and the size of databases on those deployed SQL Server 's.
Discovery Wizard tool can also bring out the SQL Server versions and the Service Pack levels of the SQL installations in the network.
And what makes this tool unique is that SQL admins can see the users and the network traffic connecting to those MS SQL Server instances and watch this traffic within a period of time.
A must tool for SQL Server administrators especially for those administrators that are new in the company and want to get a summary of the existing MS SQL Server instances in their company network.

Tools for SQL Server - Database Desing and Data Modeling Tools


Embarcadero ER/Studio is a data modeling tool enables database designers document and re-use data assets.
ER/Studio enable database desingners reverse engineering so making it easier to analyze and optimize existing SQL Server databases.
Schema Examiner can be used to validate database design errors, and find out schema errors.
Schema Examiner prepares sql scripts for resolving the found schema problems.
Schema Examiner can be used to identify problems like missing relationships between sql tables, or incorrect relationships, disabled triggers, required missing indexes on sql tables, etc.

Tools for SQL Server - SQL Monitor and Database Monitoring Tools
SQL Response

SQL Response is a sql monitoring tool SQL Server administrators require much. SQL Response monitors the health of the SQL Server instance and the activity on the server. Administrators can build alerts for notification of problems when they occur on the server.

It is easy to monitor sql deadlocks, blocking processes or problems like long running and resource consuming queries.
Zero Impact SQL Monitor is an other tool for SQL Server that is used as database monitoring tools. Zero Impact SQL Monitor enables database administrators to monitor performance of their SQL Server database systems without any affect.
SecureSphere Database Activity Monitoring
SecureSphere Database Activity Monitoring is a compact tool for major databases like SQL Server for sql monitoring, auditing and reporting.
dbForge Schema Compare for SQL Server is used for schema comparison and synchronization between different sql databases. dbForge Schema Compare enables analyze the differences in database structures of development, test and production databases environments. It can build scripts and propagate the desired modifications to a target SQL Server database.

SQL Server Tools Compare Data and Data Synchronization
Data Sync is a data compare and data synchronization tool. An important feature of Data Sync tool from Spectral Core is that Data Sync can compare and synchronize data between two different database servers.
SQL Data Compare is a handy tools for SQL Server professionals in order to compare data in sql tables and if required synchronize SQL database contents by generating sql DML scripts like insert, update or delete.
dbForge Data Compare for SQL Server enables database workers for easy data comparison and synchronization between different SQL Server databases
SQL Comparison SDK supplies developers an API for reaching Data and Schema comparison tools of Red Gate.
EMS Data Comparer for SQL Server is a powerful data compare and synchronization tool.

Data Comparer for SQL Server can create automatic scripts for eliminating data differences between SQL Server database tables.
SQL Server Backup Tools - SQL Backup and SQL Server Backup Compression Software
SQL Server professionals can find more related information on sql backup compression atSQL Backup Compression Default Option in MS SQL Server 2008 sp_configure Command
for more detailed review of SQL Server backup compression software and SQL Server tools for sql backup compression.
SQL Backup from Red-Gate is a complete sql tool to compress, encrypt and monitor SQL Server backups for SQL Server administrators.
One of the SQL Server tools of Quest Software company is the SQL Server Backup and Recovery Tool "LiteSpeed for SQL Server".

LiteSpeed offers secure encrypted backups and fast sql backup compression method for saving from sql backup time and backup storage space.
It is also possible using LiteSpeed Backup and Recovery Tool for SQL Server to restore individual database objects.
You can also download a 15 day free evaluation and free trial download of this SQL Server Backup and Recovery tool.
For a detailed review on LiteSpeed please refer toLiteSpeed Backup SQL Server Backup Compression Tool.
Task Automation Tools for SQL Server

DB Mail is an automation tool not for sending e-mails from most common databases but can manage automation of sending e-faxes, SMS and cell phone messages, etc.
DB Mail is a perfect tool for automating messaging needs of a database application.
SQL Log Rescue is log analysis tool which IT professionals can use for viewing details in SQL Server logs and information on database transactions. DBAs can also use SQL Log Rescue records in order to get lost data back in case you have accidentally delete, or modify data in a database.
SQL Audit Tool
DB Audit Expert is a professional sql auditing tool for SQL Server. System, database and security administrators as well as auditors can use DB Audit Expert as an sql audit tool.
DB Audit Expert enables tracking and analyzing database activity about database security, data access and usage, data creation, data updates or data deletion.
SSW SQL Auditor or SQLAuditor is a tool for big development teams to ensure Quality Assurance. Database designers can trace if best practice standards are applied to the SQL Server application by running SQL Auditor.



SQL Auditor sql audit tool can be assumed as the FxCop for SQL Server development teams.


This tool can find database desing problems and fix them, can identify sql naming problems, can find missing relations, missing primary keys, foreign keys, etc.
ApexSQL Audit is an sql auditing tool from Apex. It can track DML statements and save audit data into an other seperate SQL database.

ApexSQL Audit tool has also command line support.
OmniAudit SQL Server Auditing tool is easy to install and easy to use sql audit tool.



By activating OmniAudit on any database, table and field, database administrators can identify which field in which table has been altered by which user.


SQL auditing tool also reports before update and after update data values as well as change time.


OmniAudit also fullfills the Compliance Requirements of regulations like FDA Part 11, HIPAA, PCI-CISP, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.










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