Press Release
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Press contact: Simon Galbraith (simon.galbraith@red-gate.com)
New Orleans, April
10th, 2002
Red Gate SQL Server Compare automates
comparing SQL Server servers
Red
Gate Software announces a simple new product for Microsoft SQL Server that
compares the settings between different SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000
servers. SQL Server Compare will be released on April 10th 2002. It was
written entirely in Microsoft Visual
C# .NET using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. The tool will be used by
Database Administrators (DBAs ) using Microsoft SQL Server to compare DTS
packages, jobs, logins and SQL Server settings. For DBAs managing multiple
servers it will save time and improve effectiveness when they need to compare
two different servers. The only way to carry out a comparison without SQL Server
Compare is by manually looking at the two servers and writing the settings down
on a piece of paper.
Red Gate Software is the creator
of two very successful products for SQL Server: SQL Compare and SQL Data
Compare. Over 40 of Red Gate’s current customers have volunteered to use the
beta version of SQL Server Compare during the four weeks of intensive testing
prior to launch on April 10. Andy Warren a SQL Server guru from SQL Server
Central said, “I'm delighted that
Red Gate has taken the steps to automate the time consuming tasks surrounding
comparing the settings on different SQL Servers. We've had questions about this
in our discussion area at SQL Server Central so I'm sure that there will be
demand for this product.”
Neil Davidson, Technical Architect
for SQL Server Compare said “I believe this tool will prove to be as popular
and useful as our other tools for SQL Server. We’ve certainly done everything
in our power to write a simple tool that will allow DBAs to compare the settings
of SQL Server databases. We wrote it in Microsoft Visual C# .NET using Visual
Studio .NET which gave us significant productivity improvements over our
previous development environments.”
“Microsoft believes in
supporting a strong ISV, developer and partner ecosystem, and we’re pleased to
see companies such as Red Gate Software delivering tools for Microsoft SQL
Server administrators who are using SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000,” said
Tom Rizzo, group product manager for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp. “It
also is rewarding to learn of the productivity improvements Red Gate, as a
software developer, experienced writing SQL Server Compare in C# using Visual
Studio .NET.”
More Details:
Red Gate Software
Red
Gate make simple tools for complex problems. To achieve that goal we strive for
simplicity in every area of our business: our products, the way we interact with
our customers, the way we structure ourselves and the way we deal with
journalists and analysts. More about our simple approach can be found at http://www.red-gate.com/about.htm
Red
Gate was chosen as a global Gold launch partner for Visual Studio .NET and a
Visual Studio Integration Program partner. Our products have a strong Microsoft
focus.
For
more information please contact Simon Galbraith on +44 (0) 870 1600037 or simon.galbraith@red-gate.com
We have a section of our web site designed for press and analysts that is at
http://www.red-gate.com/press.htm
SQL Server Compare pricing and
information:
The
web page that provides information about SQL Server Compare is at http://www.red-gate.com/sql_server_compare.htm.
The price will be $290 for a single user license and $850 for a 10 user license.
It will be available from 10thth April 2002. The next steps for the
product development are likely to be to include the ability to synchronize as
well as compare the server settings.
SQL
Server Central
SQL
Server Central is a web site for the SQL Server Community with more than 35,000
registered members. The site features new content daily and has a vibrant
discussion area where questions of all levels are answered quickly and
cheerfully. The web site is at http://www.sqlservercentral.com.
For
more information on SQL Server Central please contact Andy Warren on awarren@sqlservercentral.com
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