A Review of SQL Refactor
Longtime author Dinesh Asanka takes a look at one of the new tools on the market, SQL Refactor from Red Gate.
2007-03-27
3,544 reads
Product and Book Reviews
A Look at SQL Log Rescue
In another look at log tools, author S. Srivathsani looks at SQL Log Rescue from Red Gate Software. Read on about how to setup this tool in your environment and use it for a peek inside your transaction log.
2007-03-07
4,290 reads
A Look at Log Explorer
Have you ever wanted to read your transaction log? Wonder what information is inside there? New author S. Srivathsani takes a look at one of the log tools out on the market, Lumigent's Log Explorer.
2008-02-05 (first published: 2007-03-06)
6,253 reads
A Look at ApexSQL Log
Reading the transaction log is challenging and one of the tools that enables you go get insight is ApexSQL Log. New author S. Srivathsani takes a look at this tool and how it worked in one environment.
2007-03-05
3,509 reads
A Review of PDF-eXPLODE
Reporting is a huge part of any DBA's job with constant changes and new requests for data that non-technical people can use. And more
and more often the format of choice is PDF, which ensures the end result looks the same on many different platforms. Kathi Kellenberger takes a look at a product that can allow end-users to generate PDFs from a database and easily send them to other people.
2008-02-07 (first published: 2007-02-15)
8,109 reads
A Review of NGSSQuirreL
Longtime SQL Server expert and author Michael Coles takes a look at one of the security products that every SQL Server DBA should consider. Read on to find out how NGSSQuirreL can help you.
2007-02-08
7,619 reads
A Review of Typhon III
Maintaining SQL Server security is fast becoming a big part of a SQL Server DBA's job. Longtime security expert Brian Kelley takes a
look at a security scanner: Typhon III
2007-02-05
5,756 reads
Product Review: SQL Refactor
Danny Lesandrini reviews SQL Refactor, a SQL Server Add-In that works with the new SQL Server Management Studio.
2007-02-01
2,964 reads
Monitoring Servers Using SQLCentric
Every DBA should know what is going on with their database servers, but this is a chore that requires some type of tool to help. SQLCentric from Pearl Knowledge Solutions is a tool that can help you and SQL Server MVP Satya Shyam brings us a look how to setup and use this tool in your environment.
2007-01-18
4,488 reads
SoftArtisans OfficeWriter:Reporting Services Integration
A new product from SoftArtisans makes it easy for Reporting Services users to work in their familiar Word and Excel environments. Longtime author Jonathan Spink brings us a review of this software.
2006-11-01
4,444 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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