News

2008 News

April

Red Gate Software releases SQL Prompt 3.8 adding layout to automatic code completion. Other new features include mouse-over tool tips that provide object definitions, including useful summaries, and parameter hinting for user-defined functions.

March

Red Gate Software releases SQL Data Generator, a new tool to automatically populate databases with realistic test data.

Red Gate Software is placed in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work For. For two years in a row we're the best small company in Cambridge. We've also received three stars from Best Companies meaning that we're an "extraordinary" company to work for.

2007 News

December

Red Gate Software releases Exception Hunter, allowing developers to easily find unhandled exceptions thrown by a function.

November

Red Gate Software releases SQL Multi Script, a new DBA tool that enables execution of multiple scripts against multiple SQL Servers with a single click, all from one, intuitive interface.

October

Red Gate Software releases SQL Data Compare 6 with revolutionary new UI features and the ability to compare to backups (Pro edition).

September

Red Gate Software launches an updated version of SQLServerCentral.com. Membership for the site is rapidly approaching the 500,000 mark.

Red Gate Software releases SQL Prompt 3.6. It now supports CTEs, Data Dude, 'live' scripted tables and many more keywords.

July

Red Gate Software releases SQL Prompt 3.5 offering cross-database, distributed queries; 5x speed; 95% less memory use; and a much more intelligent candidate list.

June

SQL Compare 6 is released, adding support for SQL script files.

May

PInvoke.net, a wiki that provides native method (PInvoke) signatures, has joined Simple Talk Publishing.

Red Gate Software releases SQL Backup 5.0 with new Timeline Monitoring™ and enhanced performance for creating compressed and encrypted backups.

April

Red Gate Software wins a Jolt award for SQL Refactor, a $195 software tool that provides database refactoring for the first time in SQL Server.

March

Red Gate triumphs in Best Companies award

Red Gate Software releases ANTS Profiler 3.0, with Visual Studio integration, making it easier and faster to optimize performance of applications written in any of the languages available on the .NET framework.

January

New SQL Prompt 3 from Red Gate delivers seamless auto-completion for SQL Server

2006 News

December

Red Gate Software releases the SQL Professional Toolbelt, an annual subscription which gives developers and DBAs access to all of the company's award-winning SQL Server tools.

Red Gate Software releases SQL Doc, a tool which transforms the hours-long task of database documentation into a simple point-and-click procedure that can be finished in less than a minute.

October

Red Gate Software releases SQL Backup Lite, a low-cost version of its best-selling SQL Backup tool.

Red Gate Software releases SQL Refactor, a $295 software add-in to SQL Server Management Studio that provides database refactoring for the first time in SQL Server.

September

Red Gate Software achieves 16th-place ranking in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100.

Red Gate Software releases ANTS Profiler 2.7, a more accurate, faster, and easier to use version than its predecessor. ANTS Profiler 2.7 allows users to run profiling on the betas of Windows Vista.

July

Red Gate Software launches the new and improved Simple Talk website, which already sees subscription levels reaching the 74,000 mark.

June

Red Gate is exhibiting at Tech Ed 2006 in Boston and announces that it is set to launch, at the end of the month, the new SQL Backup Pro 4.5 supporting 64-bit servers.

May

Red Gate releases SQL Dependency Tracker, a completely new tool for graphically tracking SQL Server object dependencies.

Red Gate acquires SQL Prompt from Atadore and releases SQL Prompt 2.0 free of charge.

April

Red Gate releases SQL Bundle 5.0 with Pro versions of SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare and SQL Packager.

Red Gate Software wins the "Business of the Year Award" run by the Cambridge Evening News.

January

Red Gate releases SQL Bundle 4.1 with full support for SQL Server 2005.

Red Gate releases DTS Package Compare 2.0 for fast comparisons of complex DTS packages.

Red Gate Software releases SQL Backup Pro Edition, providing high-performance backup and recovery for enterprise-level SQL Server implementations.

2005 News

November

Red Gate Software announces that ANTS Profiler supports Visual Studio 2005 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

Red Gate Software announces that its complete line of SQL products will fully support Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

September

SQL Packager wins best SQL Server migration tool in the annual SQL Server Magazine Readers' Choice Awards.

June

SQL Log Rescue, a tool for viewing and recovering lost SQL Server data, has been released.

SQL Bundle Developer Edition wins a Best of Tech Ed award in the Database Development category.

May

ANTS Profiler 2.5 is released, including support for Visual Studio .NET 2005. Speed of performance profiling is doubled and you can now profile Windows services and all versions of ASP.NET.

Brad McGehee, SQL Server MVP and author on SQL-Server-Performance.Com, interviews Red Gate's Marketing Director about his thoughts and views on major trends in the SQL Server market.

Steve Jones at SQL Server Central interviews Red Gate's Simon Galbraith about his current views on the industry.

April

Red Gate launches a new website, Simple Talk, as an industry service. The site offers in-depth technical articles and opinion pieces on SQL Server and .NET technologies. See the press release.

February

Red Gate releases SQL Backup, for compressed and encrypted SQL Server database backups.

January

Red Gate's Andras Belokosztolszki has an article published in SQL Server Magazine: Semantic Heterogeneity Spells Trouble (log on required to view full article).

2004 News

December

Red Gate releases an update to SQL Bundle Developer Edition, which now includes command-line versions of SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare and SQL Packager.

November

Research by Red Gate's Neil Davidson and Simon Galbraith is mentioned in a book about website optimization by Andrew King.

Red Gate releases a major new version of ANTS Profiler which now includes memory profiling and the ability to take snapshots of your application.

The holidays loom at Marley & Sons. Scrooge is anxious to launch a new e-commerce system, despite Cratchit's misgivings. Will it stand up to holiday traffic? Find out in this animated tale.

September

SQL Compare wins a SQL Server Magazine Readers' Choice Award.

August

Neil Davidson has an article published, discussing how he overcame a problem with .NET when trying to write good code. Extending the save file dialog class in .NET, The Code Project.

Red Gate obtains exclusive distribution rights to the Best of SQLServerCentral.Com, Vol.1 ebook, and is offering free downloads from their website.

June

Red Gate releases a new product, SQL Packager, for packaging schema and data in SQL Server so installation is much simpler.

May

Red Gate's Simon Galbraith has his opinion on return on investment (ROI) published: When ROI is Overkill, SD Times.

April

An update to SQL Bundle is released. SQL Compare scripts broken dependencies in correct order, and SQL Data Compare allows selection of individual records for migration.

February

Although .NET provides a number of quick and easy ways to serialize and deserialize data, do not use them. Neil Davidson explains why in this article: Nine reasons not to use serialization, The Code Project.

A slightly controversial article written by Red Gate's Neil Davidson is published: Mono and dotGNU: what's the point?, Slashdot.

2003 News

December

Red Gate releases ANTS Load version 1.6. ANTS Load now supports .NET Framework version 1.1. More info on ANTS Load.

An article about the SQL Toolkit is published. Red Gate SQL Server Toolkit Targets Overburdened DBAs, eWEEK.com.

Red Gate releases a major new version of the SQL Toolkit for automating all SQL Server database comparison and synchronization tasks.

October

Red Gate releases a major new version of SQL Compare which is as much as 100 times faster than its predecessor.

DevX.com has published an article written by Red Gate's Simon Galbraith. Requirements Analysis: Take Emotion Out of Software Purchasing Decisions.

September

The Register has published an article written by Red Gate's Simon Galbraith, Outsourcing: does it reward theft?

July

Red Gate releases a major new version of SQL Data Compare for comparing and synchronizing the data/contents of SQL databases.

June

Neil Davidson, Technical Director at Red Gate Software, has an article published. Lipstick on a Pig: An Object-oriented Layer on an OS That's Not, DevX.com.

May

Red Gate releases a new version of ANTS Profiler, adding support for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.1.

April

Red Gate Software's Simon Galbraith has an article published. An Automated Solution for Migrating Database Structures, DevX.com.

February

Red Gate Software's new .NET Profiler pinpoints coding problems in five minutes.

Simon Galbraith of Red Gate Software has an article published. What's ROI Got to Do With It?, .NET Magazine.

2002 News

Red Gate publishes the results of a study on website frustration on some well-known websites.

SQL Compare is voted as 'the tool that saves the most time' by the members of SQL Server Central.

Red Gate announces version 2.01 of SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare at TechEd, Barcelona.