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Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials

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What is Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

Redgate's SQL Toolbelt Essentials includes industry-standard tools for SQL Server development & deployment, enabling users to include SQL Server databases in agile processes and enabilng developers to embed robust and scalable development practices.

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  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $1,209 per year per user (1-4 users)
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Product Details

What is Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

Redgate's SQL Toolbelt Essentials includes industry-standard tools for SQL Server development & deployment, enabling users to include SQL Server databases in agile processes and enabilng developers to embed robust and scalable development practices.

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Redgate's SQL Toolbelt Essentials includes industry-standard tools for SQL Server development & deployment, enabling users to include SQL Server databases in agile processes and enabilng developers to embed robust and scalable development practices.

Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials starts at $1209.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Redgate SQL Compare has proved to be an invaluable tool for a variety of users in different departments across organizations. Senior software engineers rely on it to compare schemas between development, QA, and production databases, and according to their experiences, it works flawlessly. Multiple departments use SQL Compare to identify differences between databases and gather an initial assessment of the database for potential performance issues. The application development team relies on this tool to assist with developing and generating SQL scripts for deployments, while DBAs utilize it for quick and easy comparison of different databases in various environments, including production environments. A small web development team also benefits from Redgate SQL Compare by efficiently managing SQL databases across different environments, eliminating the tedious task of comparing and synchronizing schemas. In addition, Redgate's SQL Compare proves essential in creating upgrade scripts and managing database schema changes for application upgrades and deployments. Overall, the tool is widely appreciated for its ability to synchronize database structures and code, troubleshoot issues by identifying changes in data between two times, and facilitate efficient troubleshooting and issue resolution.

Users have made several recommendations for the Red Gate SQL Compare software. The most common recommendations are:

  • Users suggest fine-tuning the functionality in complex systems with foreign key relationships.
  • Many users recommend investing in additional tools like Data Compare, Source Control, and SQL Toolbox.
  • While some find the license cost expensive, they believe it is worth the price.

Overall, users highlight areas for improvement in complex system functionality while also recognizing the value and benefits provided by the Red Gate SQL Compare software. They suggest enhancing the tool with additional features and tools to further improve its capabilities.

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June 03, 2021

Redgare SQL Compare saves us time and money

Steven Gockley, MBA, MCSA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steven Gockley, MBA, MCSA
DBA / Sr. Data Analyst
Boostability (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We have actually been able to use this not only manually but in our DevOps and release process, we have been able to use the SDK to add automation so certain business scenarios we can accomplish with very little effort. We are in an AWS environment with multiple AZs and Active Directories and this tool handles it with no problem. We ensure we have an available endpoint and it is easy to deploy no matter where the DB's are.
May 03, 2021

Fantastic time saving SQL tool

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for
- Deployment of db schemas
- Comparison of data between environments
- Easy creation of SQL scripts
- Allows easy synchronization of databases
- Allows you to easily create deployment scripts.

Features such as these have offered massive time savings for our development group. Highly recommend this product.

April 01, 2021

Redgate SQL Compare -- What's to compare, save time and money!

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Retail Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Redgate is just a massive timesaving tool for releasing changes from our dev to live platforms. Being able to choose all the objects that need scripting out to alter, create, and drop statements with the click of a few buttons, taking into consideration all the dependencies, is brilliant. Coupled with that, the ability to review the differences along the way for last-minute issue spotting is hugely helpful.
August 27, 2020

Redgate SQL Compare from the DBA perspective

Kevin R. Zakoski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kevin R. Zakoski
Database Engineer III
LTCG (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

We use SQL Compare to troubleshoot performance problems quite a bit since our data model is more like a template and not everything is 100% in sync and customization occurs between different client databases. We continually get pulled into performance issues and the developers will say Client A is performing different than Client B, why? Using SQL Compare, we usually find that one client was tuned and had indexes altered or added that weren't deployed to all clients or other objects weren't deployed correctly during the release.

On the other hand, since our data model practices allow client databases to drift I tried to create a new golden image by trying to compare multiple databases based on the same data model and found it to be a very difficult process to complete using SQL Compare. SQL Compare gave me too much information and doesn't allow enough filtering to eliminate a lot of the noise.

February 08, 2020

SQL Data Compare, not pretty, but it works

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Full disclosure, I'm a huge fan of Redgate and their SQL products and have been for years. Redgate SQL Compare is well suited anytime you have sets of data you want to compare or update. If you have large tables that you're trying to compare, however, it may take a very long time to compare. It also can take a little time to figure out the user interface — both in setting up the comparison and analyzing the results.
November 01, 2019

Redgate SQL Compare: the only SQL comparison tool you'll ever need!

Richard Davies | TrustRadius Reviewer
Richard Davies
Senior Web Application Developer
City of Portland (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you maintain different copies of the same database (whether on the same server or on different servers) this is a must have tool. For example, in web development, it's common to have a development database, a testing/QA database, and a production database. This tool makes it easy to compare those different databases for any differences and synchronize changes and data between them. Now, when you deploy a new set of features to production, you can use this to deploy any accompanying database changes. However, if your application includes code that manages the database (for example, a new module or feature might include code to apply related database schema changes when it's installed), then this tool might not be necessary.
January 21, 2019

Save yourself countless hours and headaches when deploying DB changes!!

Aaron Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Aaron Smith
Senior Software Developer
TimeTrak Systems, Inc. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have to keep track of database changes that then need to be sent out to production databases, this is the tool for you! Never again will you need to write complicated scripts and try to catch all the changes that were made in the database between versions. It will even handle data if you need it to!
February 02, 2018

A must have for DBAs

Luca Campanelli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Luca Campanelli
Senior Betting & Online DB Administrator
Intralot Italia S.p.A.- Gamenet Group (Gambling & Casinos, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I use the software routinely, day after day, and I've been using it for 7 years, so I can 100% recommend this software because it never gave me a problem, it's always fast and responsive and it's simple. The classic case where a software in its simplicity does exactly what it should in the best way. The best use case is the comparison of environments before or after deployments.
December 20, 2017

REDGATE SQL Backup for everyone

Michael Jipping | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Jipping
Senior Systems Engineer
L Brands (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Redgate SQL Backup is well suited for use in large and small organizations. It is scalable to needs of a large organization as they expand their footprint. Some of their other products such as the SQL Toolbelt and the Redgate SQL Monitor are also extremely beneficial. Organizations with low bandwidth between interconnects will benefit from the compression feature.
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