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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.
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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'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.
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The most common users of Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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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 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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May 03, 2021
Fantastic time saving SQL tool
We use Redgate SQL compare to quickly and easily compare date between or development, test, staging and production environments. It allows us a very easy mechanism to assist in troubleshoot production or development issues. It provides a quick means of seeing differences between our different environments. Prior to using this it was very difficult to determine differences between environments.
- Comparison of data
- Deployment of schemas
- Massive time saver
- Honestly I would not change a thing about it
September 11, 2020
Very handy tool to quickly see DDL differences between same objects on different databases.
Used for code and database object DDL comparison to identify changes.
- 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
August 27, 2020
Redgate SQL Compare from the DBA perspective
SQL Compare is being used by multiple departments across the organization. My area, Database Service, uses SQL Compare regularly when we're pulled in to look at performance issues. Since we have several thousand databases with many clients and a custom deployment process that doesn't necessarily deploy all objects exactly the same, we utilize SQL Compare as one of our main tools to look for differences between databases to gather an initial assessment of the database to determine if we may be missing an object, permission or any other database component.
On the application development side, they will use SQL Compare to assist with developing and generating SQL scripts for deployments.
- 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.
November 01, 2019
Redgate SQL Compare: the only SQL comparison tool you'll ever need!
My small web development team uses Redgate SQL Compare to help us manage our SQL databases across different environments (development, QA, and production, etc.). It eliminates the tedious and manual task of comparing database schemas and synchronizing them and their data across these different environments.
- 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.
We use Redgate's SQL Compare to create our upgrade scripts for our application upgrades and deployments. We honestly couldn't do our upgrades without it! We make changes constantly to our database schema for our applications and managing those changes can be a hassle, let alone keeping track of what we need to put in the upgrade or new deployment scripts. Redgate's tools make this painless and worry free! Just check in your database changes into SQL and SQL Compare does the rest!
- 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.
April 04, 2017
RedGate makes awesome SQL Server dev tools!
I use RedGate SQL Compare within my department. In database development, it's an awesome tool to keep database structures and code in sync, especially with there are many hands working on a database. It helps in determining the REAL scope of structure and code migrations. I use it to both generate deployment scripts for later use and documentation and also to effect some migrations immediately. It depends on if I am trying to sync multiple dev dbs or a dev to qc db or from a dev/qc db to a prod db. It is very thorough in its comparisIt's. Its not unusual that I have a few of those "oh I forgot about that change" moments when running it. It saves me lots of time and frustration in performing db change migrations right the first time. I don't ever want to be without it!!
- 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.