I’d like to squeeze in another reference to the Killing Game Show, or other Amiga classics, at this point. I really must wind up the emulator and dig out the ADFs I made of my old games, at some point. Sadly I lost the original machine when I sold a house, neglecting to clear out lots of ancient goodies from the roof. Sigh. The beige box with the chicken-head on the outside and B52 ROCK LOBSTER on the inside is no more.

What’s he drivelling about? Well folks, that was a cunningly disguised reference to my previous blog entry, Making Tracks, which referred to the beta release of SQL Dependency Tracker. Why should I bring that up, at this point? And why doesn’t this blog make much sense, really, when you look at it closely? The latter question I’m just going to have to /shrug to. However, as to the former, I have an answer for you.

We’ve recently released the full, 2.0 release version of SQL Dependency Tracker, and it’s really quite spiffy. Even if I do say so myself, being project manager and co-developer. As I’ve been telling some journalistic types over the last few days, it’s an excellent way to analyse the impact of potential changes to your database before you make them, as a number of our beta testers and Friends of Red Gate have discovered. It’s also great for exploring your database. Even though we didn’t have time to put printing features into the app, all credit to one of our beta users who cunningly used Dependency Tracker’s export features to paste a diagram into Excel, and printed up a wall-sized block diagram of his database courtesy of Red Gate. The man has determination and style.

Anyhoo. If you fancy getting your hands dirty, then why not go download a free 14 day trial from:

http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Dependency_Tracker/index.htm

Meantime, I’ll stroll away reminiscing about 16-bit machines.