Previously, common database refactors supported by ApexSQL Refactor and RedGate® SQL Prompt were compared in ApexSQL Refactor vs RedGate® SQL Prompt Refactors – Part 1 – Common refactors compared “Encapsulate As”, as well as additional refactors not supported by SQL Prompt in ApexSQL Refactor vs RedGate® SQL Prompt – Part 2 – Additional refactors
October 31, 2013ApexSQL Refactor vs RedGate® SQL Prompt – Part 2 – Additional refactors
Some SQL refactors in RedGate® SQL Prompt and ApexSQL Refactor are similar and some are different. In a previous article, the main differences in SQL refactors supported by ApexSQL Refactor and RedGate® SQL Prompt were shown.
October 29, 2013ApexSQL Refactor vs RedGate® SQL Prompt Refactors – Part 1 – Common refactors compared “Encapsulate as”
Database refactoring is a simple database transformation which improves its design without changing the behavioral semantics of the database. The process of database refactoring defines how to safely evolve a database schema in small steps
October 25, 2013What’s new in free ApexSQL add-ins for SSMS and VS – features and improvements
Recently, we have released new versions of our free SSMS/VS add-ins where we introduced some new features and improved add-ins usability. We’ve also managed to fix some annoying performance and functionality issues reported by our users
October 3, 2013ApexSQL Refactor 2013 R3 – Product update alert
ApexSQL Refactor 2013 R3 has been released
Type: Maintenance release
About ApexSQL Refactor: ApexSQL Refactor is a FREE SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio add-in for formatting SQL statements using nearly 200 formatting options and 11 code refactors. It expands wildcards, qualifies object names, renames SQL database objects and parameters without breaking dependencies and much more
September 19, 2013Troubleshooting and Knowledgebase articles round-up – July 12th, 2013
Here is a summary of our latest KB and TS articles
July 15, 2013ApexSQL Refactor 2013 R2 – Product update alert
ApexSQL Refactor 2013 R2 has been released
Type: Maintenance release
About ApexSQL Refactor: ApexSQL Refactor is a FREE SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio add-in which formats SQL code using nearly 200 formatting options and 11 code refactors. It expands wildcards, fully qualifies object names, renames SQL database objects and parameters without breaking dependencies and much more.
July 7, 2013Copy SQL scripts into another programming language
Developers often have to copy and store SQL scripts in different languages as strings. Manually “translating” SQL scripts into a language-specific string is a tedious process where mistakes are easily made
ApexSQL Refactor is a SQL formatter that can help out by inserting a language specific code before and after a SQL statement and adding escape characters for quotes and code to terminate a line. Copy SQL code as feature provides a simple way to convert a SQL script into a language-specific string – Java, VB.NET, C#, Perl, PHP, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Ruby, C++, or any other custom language for which a conversion rules are defined
May 23, 2013Features of ApexSQL Edit in various SSMS Add-Ins
ApexSQL Edit, a standalone SQL Integrated development environment, has been discontinued in favor of ApexSQL add-ins for SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio. What this article will provide is a feature-wise mapping of ApexSQL Edit that has been incorporated via ApexSQL add-ins. Comparing to the latest version of ApexSQL Edit, our existing add-ins have updated engines, improved quality, and in many cases additional features. They are all under active development. Let’s quickly overview what these add-ins can do
May 3, 2013ApexSQL Edit refactoring feature vs. SQL refactoring add-in
ApexSQL Refactor is a free SQL formatting add-in for SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio derived from the ApexSQL Edit’s refactoring feature but further optimized and improved. Among other things it offers full SQL Server 2012 support, meaning that FileTable refactoring is now fully supported, which was not the case with ApexSQL Edit
April 4, 2013
