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Posted by acorcoran on 07/12/07 02:53
On Jul 11, 3:37 pm, bour...@gmail.com wrote:
> Okay - I've been reading through a ton of blogs, and every other one
> seems to have some neat, new-to-me tool that I've missed that I could
> really use. Our production DBA recently left, and I'd rather find
> code to help me do his job, improve things, and maybe get some
> sleep.
>
> For instance, I hadn't seen these until recently:
> Performance Dashboard - SSMS reports with everything from CPU usage to
> top queries, etc.
> SQL DMVStats - code that builds and populates a repository of
> performance data using DMVs
> SQL Server Hosting Toolkit - potentially a way to better deploy code
> to QA & Production.
>
> What other projects have I missed? Our environment has Clusters,
> VLDBs, a QA environment, etc, etc ... and after finding these I'm sure
> that other, brighter, minds have come up with stuff to make my life
> easier.
>
> Thanks in advance.
I know you are looking for free, but it looks like the other response
covers that in pretty good detail. If you want to buy some tools that
are easy on the company's pocketbook, I'd suggest taking a look at
RedGate's software package. Quest/Litespeed are defacto leader's I'd
say, however RedGate's array of tools are wonderful, as are the
prices.
http://www.red-gate.com
You'll find tools to make your life quite a bit better. If you have
an MSDN license at work, take a look at Visual Studio Team Systems for
Database Professionals (out of breath after typing that one). You'll
find quite a bit of tools (schema compares, data compares, unit
testing, deployment methods, data generations, etc). It is a great
tool to help you with the deployment mechanisms.
Again I know you asked for free, so sorry to derail that part of it.
Aaron
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