Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/14/06 21:45

(Jason_Williams@gensler.com) writes:
> Does anyone happen to know if the folks at Red-Gate used a public SDK
> to create the log explorer, or did they fork over money to microsoft to
> get a ISV licensed SDK?

I guess that you should ask Red Gate about that. :-)

> I'm looking into making a similar product that would be open source,
> and I'm trying to figure out what they used to translate entries in the
> log to something that is readable by the human eye.

The legend is that when Lumigent first developer their Log Explorer -
which was the first product of this kind - their lead developer spent
about a year to reverse-engineer the transaction log.

In the end, though, I think the money is irrelevant. Reverse Engineering
is probably a license violation, but Lumigent got away with it since it
was a valuable product.

Today, you can probably get the specs, with or without money, but I
can almost promise with an NDA. And without knowing, it seems like a
good bet that the NDA precludes an open source solution.


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