SQL Toolbelt Essentials

Essential industry-standard tools for SQL Server development & deployment

Double your productivity with industry-leading tools
Standardize and scale development practices across teams
Include SQL Server databases in agile processes
Embed robust and scalable development practices

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SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps you and your teams reduce manual, time-consuming work and increase productivity.

It's the set of industry-standard tools built by SQL Server industry leaders to standardize SQL development across organizations.

You'll save time, increase code quality, and gain greater confidence in more frequent releases.

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See what industry experts have to say about SQL Toolbelt Essentials

“We now have better change processes, where we baked in all the best practices to distribute out and help us evolve.”
Ryan Hird, Technical Lead, BennettsRead the case study

“It’s improved the speed at which the team develops significantly and saved half a day a week”
Paul Cresham, Group Business Analytics & Reporting Manager, Hays Travel

“SQL Toolbelt Essentials makes it much easier to compare differences between environments, and provides an easy way to make them equal where needed with all the relevant updates, new code and functionality”
Nelson Ambrose, Head of Software Development, Pepper Group

“SQL Toolbelt Essentials is indispensable to me. I am always finding new features and options that make my life easier.”
Jeremy Lambert, CIO, BDM Technologies, LLC

“Using Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials is an integral part of my work day. It has saved me time and provided tools for tasks that otherwise would be difficult.”
Peg Dullnig, Senior Developer

“The tools in Redgate’s SQL Toolbelt Essentials are incredibly useful for our team both in the DBA and SQL developer roles. I can't even remember what we did BEFORE we had Redgate because we have been using it for so long. It's one of those tools that once discovered, you wonder how you got along without it.”
Darren Larson, IT Consultant, Global Engineering Firm

“Not only is our development team more productive, we are also seeing substantially faster delivery times and, most importantly, more accuracy.”
Rynhardt van Rensburg, Systems Analyst, ABSA Bank

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SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps your teams work with SQL Server

Double your team's productivity

Write SQL over 50% faster with SQL Prompt's SQL snippets, auto code completion, and suggestions.

Slash time spent on code reviews by fixing errors with autofixes, and generating high quality, error-free code so you can spend time on the work that makes a difference.

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Standardizing team-based development

Share formatting styles and snippets across teams using the Redgate Platform to ensure code remains high quality and consistent across your organization.

Boost collaboration by sharing changes with the rest of your team using SQL Source Control. View a full history of changes, including who changed what, when, and why.

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High quality code as standard

Standardizing code across your organization is easy with features that let you run code analysis on your entire code base and apply formatting changes and autofixes in bulk.

Improve the quality of new code while easily bringing legacy code up to standard. And let consistent styles across teams simplify and speed up everyday tasks like code reviews.

Explore, document, and query your database

Search all your tables, views, stored procedures, functions, views, and jobs, with SQL Search.

Document all your objects automatically, with SQL Doc.

Fetch data from or make changes to 100s of databases at the same time, with SQL Multi Script.

See the impact of your changes and catch orphaned objects with SQL Dependency Tracker.

One toolbelt for an end-to-end workflow

The tools in the Toolbelt Essentials work together as part of an end-to-end process to simplify your workflow. By supporting database development best practices it paves the way to automation.

Learn more about Redgate's Database DevOps solution

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Good for teams and team leads

Levelling up your whole team to produce higher quality code is good for your team, and good for team leaders. Reduce errors and improve consistency with standardized styles and snippets, building your team's confidence in every release.

With best practices and guidelines embedded into your team's workflow, Team Leaders can onboard new members seamlessly without wasting time on documentation.

Reducing your team's time spent on manual work and code reviews lets them more spend time on valuable (and more rewarding) work.

Collaboration across teams becomes seamless with improved visibility of changes in source control, and the ability to share formatting styles and snippets in the cloud.

Ten essential SQL Server tools for releases and productivity

“Redgate's SQL Toolbelt Essentials has been a hit with the team and has had a huge positive impact on how we work.
SQL Prompt takes the chore out of many tasks… SQL Search makes finding dependencies a breeze, and SQL Compare is used to manage the differences between test and live environments…”
Paul Cresham, Group Business Analytics & Reporting Manager, Hays Travel

“As a software developer, I always thought SQL development felt a bit dusty and clunky. With Redgate, a lot of the tools that I've taken for granted as a developer like source control, unit testing, and CI/CD pipelines are now available and easy to understand for the database.
Redgate tools make database development feel as modern as application development.”
Jared Porcenaluk, Azure MVP and Software Developer from Nebbia Technology

“Redgate's tools are generally considered to be the gold standard.
SQL Compare is fast, extremely easy to use – Redgate pays a huge amount of attention to its UIs – full-featured and affordable. I wouldn't bother messing around with anything else.”
Adam Machanic, SQL Server MVP

“We are building a software platform for smarter life in organizations. This software is multitenant with separate databases and we know the challenges we'll be facing in maintaining those databases in a rapidly developing environment.
As a start-up we use extreme consideration on how we spend our scarce resources but for us the SQL Toolbelt Essentials was a necessary purchase; it allows us to do exactly what we need.”
Juha Borenius, CEO, Thinger.fi

“I've been a SQL DBA for about as long as there has been SQL. I really appreciate so many things about Redgate... The tools are top notch. I use at least one every single day.
The pricing is very reasonable, and – best of all – is the customer support. I get quick answers to all my questions from a knowledgeable and professional staff member. Such a departure from the industry as a whole.”
Steve Gray MCDBA, Vice President, 4Penny.net