New permissions features brings access control to SQL Clone

SQL Clone permissions give you simple control over who can access SQL Clone, and what they can do with it. Read more

Using multiple custom SQL formatting styles in SQL Prompt

Louis Davidson shows how to use SQL Prompt formatting styles to create and maintain multiple code styles, each for a dedicated purpose, and to switch between them and apply a new style to existing code, with ease. Read more

A whole new way to see differences in SQL Compare

SQL Compare 12.4 adds the Summary view, a tab that sits alongside SQL view and provides a more concise breakdown of the differences between two objects. Read more

SQL Monitor

SQL Monitor plans for the second half of 2017

SQL Monitor’s dev team has made huge improvements to the product over the last year. In the first half of 2017 alone, they released reporting capabilities, support for collecting metrics from VMWare hosts, significant improvements to performance and scalability, improved configurability of alerts, as well as dozens of smaller enhancements. Since we’re about half way Read more

The Louis Davidson custom style for SQL Prompt

Louis Davidson sticks his neck out and offers his take on a sensible SQL code formatting style, based on twenty-plus years of writing SQL. Starting from SQL Prompt's Default style, he customizes it based on his own list of personal preferences for how SQL code should look. The result is the Louis Davidson custom SQL Prompt style that you can download, try out, and adapt as required. Read more

How to implement a SQL formatting standard using SQL Prompt v8

Louis Davidson explains why your team needs a standard style for formatting SQL and how SQL Prompt will help make this happen. Read more

VMware Monitoring in SQL Monitor

Jon Hayman reviews the metrics available in SQL Monitor can help you diagnose problems that might come from SQL Server running in a virtual environment. Read more

Basic data masking for development work using SQL Clone and SQL Data Generator

Richard Macaskill describes a lightweight copy-and-generate approach for making a sanitized database build available to development teams, using SQL Clone, SQL Change Automation and SQL Data Generator. Read more