How often do you check your SQL Server tables for fragmentation? How often do you defragment them? This is one of those technologies that has been available for disks for a long time, but now is here for SQL Server. Norb Technologies is offering a discount to the SQLServerCentral.com community on this product.
2005-11-01
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Having a good tool to read your SQL Server transaction log can be a lifesaver, or a job saver. RegGate Software, maker of a number of useful SQL Server utilities has a log reader and Grany Fritchey takes a look at this product and how it might work in your environment.
2005-11-01
10,447 reads
How many of you using SQL Server 2000 have the need to send email from SQL Server? How many of you hate Outlook? Here is a software package that can send not only HTML, but PDF as well and through SMTP. Read Hugh Scott's review and thoughts on this product.
2005-09-22
7,457 reads
How many times have you wished you could throttle the CPU use of SQL Server? Or for a database? Prevent your developers from using too many resources while sharing the server with production or QA. ArmTech for Windows can do this and Dinsesh Asanka brings us a review of how this product worked in his environment.
2005-07-26
5,492 reads
Searching data is an essential part of SQL Server applications, especially text searching. While Full Text Search in SQL Server 2000 works, it lacks some important features that Turbo for SQL Server can handle. Read this review of the product and see if this is a way you can enhance the search functions in your application.
2005-06-01
7,477 reads
Your backups are critical for the success and stability of your business. However as backup sizes grow and servers proliferate, managing the backups and storing all this data becomes a challenge. Dale Elizabeth Corey brings us a look at Imceda's Litespeed for SQL Server, a fantastic utility for helping manage your backups.
2005-05-11
22,033 reads
SQL Server 2000 has a rock solid backup process and one that many people have relied upon for years. However with the growth in database sizes and the constant load on many database servers, a third party backup utility is almost required in many environments. Kathi Kellenberger takes a look at Red-Gate Software's SQL Backup 3.0 and how it performs in her environment.
2005-04-27
12,415 reads
One of the strengths and powers of the SQL Server platform over others is the shear number of things that are available free from Microsoft besides the relational platform. DTS, Reporting Services, SQLAgent, and more are included with the product. One of the newer utilities is SQLH2, a performance monitoring tool that is reviewed here by Kathi Kellenberger.
2005-03-28
18,628 reads
SQL Server 2000 has a weak point in how it handles security. SA can see everything, a notion that disturbs many people, especially those that have data security requirements. Netlib has a great product that allows you to encrypt columns, tables, or databases in a way that is seemless to your application. Dale Corey takes a look at this product and how you might use it in your application.
2005-03-07
8,084 reads
Recently, SwisSQL approached me for a review of their product that can convert SQL statements from one dialect to another. They told me that "SwisSQL SQLOne Console" is a GUI application that can convert SQL statements from one RDBMS implementation to another and the dialects supported include:
Microsoft SQL Server
Sybase
Oracle
IBM DB2
Informix
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MySQL
and last but not the least, ANSI SQL
2005-02-24
1,438 reads
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