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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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Redgate SQL Compare has proved to be an invaluable tool for a variety of users in different departments across organizations. Senior …
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Entry-level set up fee?

  • 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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Reviews and Ratings

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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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Steven Gockley, MBA, MCSA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • UI is very intuitive.
  • SDK is flexible.
  • Lightweight and fast. Easily handles hundreds to thousands of objects in a single database.
  • UI is a little outdated.
  • It does automap columns but, when it comes to object renaming it would be nice to have more functionality. We tend to just do renames manually.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allows selecting objects for deployment.
  • Table and owner mapping is also a nice touch.
  • Great number of options for customizing the deployment script being generated.
  • My tool belt sometimes loses it's license forcing me to fiddle with it to get it working again.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It allows you to set up projects for repetitive comparisions.
  • It organises object differences very well, with filters and searches available on top.
  • Redgate displays the differences between objects very clearly at script level.
  • It's created deployment scripts that you can either run yourself, or complete using the application.
  • So far so good. I have to be honest, it's not a complicated application, and so far hasn't caused me any issues or to question the choices of the developers!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Compare DDL in multiple databases or with objects in source code repository
  • SQL code comparison in stored procs, views, indexes, triggers or just sql files
  • Pick objects to deploy changes from one server to another
  • It would be good to have an option to ignore differences changes in comments or blank lines or tabs
Kevin R. Zakoski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use, doesn't require a lot knowledge or experience to use the tool.
  • UI is easy to navigate with several options filter content and results are grouped by content which makes comparing differences easy to find. Differences are also color coded and highlighted in code windows so you can pinpoint issues quickly.
  • Ability to pick and choose which items you want to sync at a push of a button directly to the database or generate the necessary code snippet needed to deploy to multiple databases using a deployment process.
  • Would like more filter options, like just looking for index differences between databases and tables and not seeing all the other differences that may exist in other components like triggers, extended properties, etc.
  • A 'Golden Copy', I compare multiple databases that are similar but not exactly the same but you're only can compare 2 databases at a time. I'd like to have the ability to save components from multiple sources to make a golden copy but also have the option to compare the 3 the same time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provides many options for setting the comparison key
  • Provides flexibility about what you are comparing (database, backup, scripts)
  • Makes it easy to filter down to just what you are looking for
  • Would be cool if it could read transaction logs to find what caused the change
Richard Davies | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simple and easy comparison of database schemas and data. Differences can be copied or synced from one database to another with a click of a button.
  • You can save "projects" so that you can easily rerun a previous comparison whenever you need to.
  • It has a very simple, easy to learn interface. I've never needed to read any documentation or watch any tutorials in order to figure out how to do something.
  • I honestly can't think of anything I don't like or anything I would change.
Aaron Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Extremely fast!
  • Compares from source control, not just physical databases. No need to keep copies of databases of varying versions laying around.
  • Command line tools integrate easily into automated build processes.
  • Even has plugins for products like Octopus Deploy!
  • Not the best at initial setups. Sometimes there are error messages that have no bearing on what the problem really is.
  • Documentation sometimes can be lacking, but their support team will make up for that.
February 02, 2018

A must have for DBAs

Luca Campanelli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Comparison speed
  • Immediacy in the highlighting of differences
  • Easy to use
  • Some features or default preferences are not activated and are a bit hidden between the Options flags
  • License fee slightly high
  • If you upgrade the SQL server, you need to upgrade the version of SQL
Michael Jipping | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It provided a Great Centralized Management Console. User can go to the Console to manage all of their Redgate Licenses and also configure SQL Server Backups.
  • It does an excellent job at managing the SQL Backup and Compressing the backup file to allow for easy transport to DR Locations.
  • It has great options for SQL Server Backup Jobs including copying to secondary storage locations.
  • Better License Management would be an improvement. Currently no way to manage your licenses without contacting your representative.
  • Possibly better testing of backups would an improvement. Ability to restore files in a Sandbox would be a great feature.
Rob Cowart | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Deep, thorough SQL Server db comparisons in places you might not think to look.
  • Gives me flexibility on how I want to save or execute the SQL Compare results.
  • Remembers settings between uses that speed me in using it.
  • Has a clear and effective interface.
  • Pricing.... I wish there was an inexpensive developer version I could buy for myself.
  • Portability.... I would like to use it from a flash drive so I can use it where ever I am asked to work.
  • Unbundled.... This may be available already but I dont' recall I can buy it cheaply as a stand-alone product. Its only part of the bundle - cost effectively.
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