http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Reviews, Product News posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Highwire Development is offering a free version of their RAAS product to SQLServerCentral.com members. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/3216/2007/08/31http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/3216/A new Java based application for searching SQL Server and Sybase databases is available for free from SQLMesh. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3185/2007/08/16http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3185/Software Development Innovations is offering SQLServerCentral.com members a 20% discount on their products with a coupon of "sqlservercentral" used in their cart.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3127/2007/07/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3127/SQLMaestro has a new version and is offering a discount to SQLServerCentral.com members. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/2934/2007/03/22http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/2934/Red Gate Software is releasing a low-cost version of its best-selling SQL Backup tool that makes data protection for small businesses fast and simple. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/2641/2006/10/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/2641/Many of you were thrilled to see intellisense available for SQL Server editors, but there has been a bit of confusion about this product. An open letter from the CEO of Red-Gate Software clears things up. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/freesqlprompt20valuablebutflawedv30beingbuiltfroms/2527/2006/07/26http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/freesqlprompt20valuablebutflawedv30beingbuiltfroms/2527/For a limited time Highwire Development is offering free site licenses for their RAAS Workflow Manager. This product can help you control your change processes and manage the workflow involved in deploying new scripts. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/getraasworkflowmanagerforfree/2516/2006/07/24http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/getraasworkflowmanagerforfree/2516/This article describes the "beta" version of Simple-Talk's SQL formatting tool, SQL Prettifier. It provides links both to try it out online and to download the full source code (members only). Please give us your feedback! We will be offering prizes for any fixes and improvements that make it into "v1". I'd like this to become the de-facto (excuse the pun) tool for presenting code in the Simple-Talk articles, blogs and forums.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2507/2006/07/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2507/Version 2 of the great monitoring tool from Pearl Knowledge is now available. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/sqlcentric20/2372/2006/04/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/sqlcentric20/2372/Most of the time, it's the simplest tools that have the biggest impact on our lives. If you have a camera and believe, like Leonardo DaVinci, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, then why not enter Red Gate's Ingeniously Simple Tools photo competition... To enter is simple. All you need to do is send us a photo of your favorite, simple tool.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2348/2006/03/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2348/With a new version supporting SQL Server 2005, Periscopde for SQL Server is offering a 25% discount for SQLServerCentral.com members. This product helps with performance monitoring. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/periscopeforsqlserverdiscount/2106/2006/03/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/periscopeforsqlserverdiscount/2106/sqlSentry, a leading developer of management solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, today announced that it has released the 64-bit version of its industry-leading scheduling and notification management system for SQL Server 2005, supporting both x64 and Itanium-based systems. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/new64bitsqlsentryenhancesperformanceandscalability/2243/2006/01/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/new64bitsqlsentryenhancesperformanceandscalability/2243/A new product has just been released in Beta to help you with source control for your SQL Server development. Beta testers are wanted, so if you're interested, read on. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/sqldbcontrolbetatesterswanted/2174/2005/12/01http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/sqldbcontrolbetatesterswanted/2174/With a new version supporting SQL Server 2005, Periscopde for SQL Server is offering a 25% discount for SQLServerCentral.com members. This product helps with performance monitoring. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/periscopeforsqlserverdiscount/2106/2006/03/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/periscopeforsqlserverdiscount/2106/Newly surfaced Tableau Software aims to revolutionize the acquisition and deployment process with its product suite, Tableau Professional and Standard Editions. 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We've gotten another one from DBxtra for a Professional license if you're interested in this reporting tool. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/dbxtradiscount/1863/2005/04/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/dbxtradiscount/1863/Have you ever needed to find something in a stored procedure or function and found yourself trying to wade through syscomments? Ever want to know which views reference a table, but you don't trust sysdepends? BDS has released SQL Digger 2.0, a utility designed to help you search through your schema and code to find what you need. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/bdssqldigger2released/1831/2005/04/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/bdssqldigger2released/1831/As the online news service called NewsScape moves into its sixth year, it exhibits a lot of the characteristics of a child at the same age: It has a huge appetite for information, grows by leaps and bounds each year, and makes those who oversee it wonder if they can maintain control as it gets bigger. It is maintained by "a man and a dog – an aging golden retriever named Sambucus," according to the man, Andrew Clarke. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1824/2005/04/15http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1824/Have you ever needed to find something in a stored procedure or function and found yourself trying to wade through syscomments? Ever want to know which views reference a table, but you don't trust sysdepends? BDS has released SQL Digger 2.0, a utility designed to help you search through your schema and code to find what you need. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/bdssqldigger20released/1827/2005/04/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/bdssqldigger20released/1827/With it's VizQL, Tableau Software is revolutionizing the way that you will analyze data. Built to work with multiple data sources, including SQL Server databases and Analysis Services cubes, this software will amaze you. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/tableausoftwaredebuts/1823/2005/04/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/tableausoftwaredebuts/1823/Maintaining control of your schema with SQL Server 2000 can be cumbersome. However there are starting to be more and more tools to assist you with version control and tracking your schema over time. Nob Hill software has a tool that helps, which is currently in Beta and code named "Randolph". If you have a need, check out their new product. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/betacallrandolphfordatabaseschemacontrol/1817/2005/03/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/betacallrandolphfordatabaseschemacontrol/1817/SQLServerCentral.com tries to provide you a great deal of value for your subscription fees. We think we do a good job considering the $0 cost :) One of the benefits we sometimes negotiate is a discount on products. DBXtra has generously offered a discount for the next few months, so read on and make your purchase today! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/adbxtradiscount/1792/2005/03/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+News/adbxtradiscount/1792/