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Phillip - Texas SSC-Addicted Points: 415 More actions · Answer 1

Does anyone use the Database Publishing Wizard tool from Microsoft?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=56E5B1C5-BF17-42E0-A410-371A838E570A&displaylang=en

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

PrintKey

BeyondCompare

Notepad++

RedGate Toolbelt

TFS (VSS)

Password Safe

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Fraggle-805517 SSCrazy Eights Points: 8907 More actions · Answer 3

There is a tool that no one has listed and it is Free.

SSMS Tool Pack. Between this and SSMS 08, I essential get Redgate sql promt for free. Granted, it is trimmed down, but still free.

Seriously, if you haven't heard of it, go and try it. I think my 3 favorite things are default and user defined sql snippets, window connection coloring that is vastly superior to 08, and the basic formatting it has. The only thing it doesn't do for me is intelli-scense, and that is now free with 2008.

Outside of this:

Quest Litespeed

Confio Ignite

Fraggle

SqlNightOwl SSCrazy Points: 2331 More actions · Answer 4

Steve-3_5_7_9 (4/9/2010)
SQLCompare
SQLDataCompare
Ultraedit
SSMS
SQLServerProfiler

Yes to those, PowerShell and and a few utilities I wrote myself.

--Paul Hunter

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 5

Fraggle-805517 (4/9/2010)
There is a tool that no one has listed and it is Free.
SSMS Tool Pack. Between this and SSMS 08, I essential get Redgate sql promt for free. Granted, it is trimmed down, but still free.
Seriously, if you haven't heard of it, go and try it. I think my 3 favorite things are default and user defined sql snippets, window connection coloring that is vastly superior to 08, and the basic formatting it has. The only thing it doesn't do for me is intelli-scense, and that is now free with 2008.
Outside of this:
Quest Litespeed
Confio Ignite
Fraggle

I like Confio.

Thanks for the heads up on the Tool Pack.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events

Larry Briscoe Hall of Fame Points: 3005 More actions · Answer 6

I agree with a couple of folks above that SQL Sentry is a good 3rd party tool. It's proven itself in our large scale environment. It's monitoring is very reliable and not flakey like Tivoli. Performance Advisor within SQL Sentry is a great diagnostic tool to see realtime performance metrics or historical data.

Regards,

Larry Briscoe

DatabaseNinja

Fraggle-805517 SSCrazy Eights Points: 8907 More actions · Answer 7

Just realized I forgot one.

SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Report. Based upon the internal DMV.

Fraggle

David Todd-242471 Right there with Babe Points: 797 More actions · Answer 8

Hi,

On my list

SSMS

Winmerge for comparing/merging text files

Context editor

Notepad++ editor

A bunch of query templates

Cheers

David

Steven.Howes SSCertifiable Points: 6230 More actions · Answer 9

What we all should be doing is also posting links to the software we like. I'll add a few more to my list. I generally just use SSMS. but I'll add a few to my list of favourites apps that help me do everything else.

Paint .net http://www.getpaint.net/ Fast and easy way to get custom colours #s

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm notepadd++.

http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ Multiple desktops for windows. (for when 3 monitors doesn`t give enough desktop real-estate)

http://bluemars.org/clipx/ a Clipboard history. I can`t live without it anymore. A machine without this feels like a VIC20

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/ I use this for flipping apps from one monitor to another. That way I keel my hands on the keyboard.

Maybe when this thread quietens down we should make a list so we don`t have to sort through 4 pages.

Michael Meierruth SSChampion Points: 10051 More actions · Answer 10

Maybe when this thread quietens down we should make a list so we don`t have to sort through 4 pages.

Maybe we could all just post a script that does a series of inserts into a table defined as

create table mylist(

ssid varchar(30),

prodname varchar(50),

url(100))

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734459 More actions · Answer 11

Michael,

That's a good idea. I might built such a DDL script that people can use to do their own counts and analysis.