Microsoft’s cloud-based platform Azure SQL Database is now supported by selected ApexSQL products, including ApexSQL Diff and ApexSQL Data Diff. These applications can compare “usual” data source (such as database, backup, snapshot or source control scripts) against SQL Azure, as well as two SQL Azure databases against each other.
December 18, 2013SQL Solution center round-up – December 15th, 2013 – compliance guidelines for SQL DBAs, SQL Server performance monitoring, rules of SQL formatting
The latest SQL Solution center articles continue the stories about compliance recommendations for SQL Server DBAs, with general instructions, tips, and solutions. Additionally, the series of SQL Server performance monitoring and tuning articles is continued with explanation on other native SQL Server monitoring features, and we also wrote about regular and delimited T-SQL identifiers as the part of SQL formatting rules
December 16, 2013ApexSQL Build 2012 R2 – Product update alert
ApexSQL Build 2012 R2 has been released
Type: Maintenance release
About ApexSQL Build: ApexSQL Build – a SQL database deployment tool that builds new databases or updates existing ones by packaging SQL scripts, script folders, database snapshots and even scripts under version control into a single deployment SQL script, a .NET solution or an executable installer. It allows specifying the objects to be created or updated, ensures error-free deployments, enables executing SQL scripts against multiple SQL Servers simultaneously and more
December 9, 2013ApexSQL Audit 2013 R3 – Product update alert
ApexSQL Audit 2013 R3 has been released
Type: Maintenance release
About ApexSQL Audit: ApexSQL Audit is a SQL Server auditing tool with a wide range of possibilities for auditing access, changes, and security on SQL Server instances, databases, and objects. It audits queries, DDL and DML operations, security events (authentication changes, permissions changes, and attempted logins), stored procedures, and functions. ApexSQL Audit saves captured information in a centralized auditing repository, and provides comprehensive reports
December 6, 2013ApexSQL Log 2013 UI updates
This document describes updates to ApexSQL Log 2013 UI. The main focus of UI redesign was to fix issues reported by QA in their ApexSQL Log UI analysis documents and increase consistency of all UI forms
December 3, 2013SQL Solution center round-up – December 3rd, 2013 – auditing SQL Server data changes, PCI compliance, point-in-time restore and performance monitoring
In the latest SQL Solution center articles, we completed the series about methods for SQL Server database auditing, showed how to restore a database to a point-in-time, and wrote about PCI compliance, SQL Server traces, and SQL Server performance monitoring
December 2, 2013ApexSQL Script 2011 R4 – Product update alert
ApexSQL Script 2011 R4 has been released
Type: Maintenance release
About ApexSQL Script: ApexSQL Script is a SQL Server database migration tool which scripts database objects and data into a single or multiple deployment SQL scripts, .NET solutions or executable installers. It can export live databases directly to version control and can automate and schedule the migration processes
November 28, 2013ApexSQL Audit 2013 R3 sneak peek
The new release of ApexSQL Audit, an auditing and compliance tool for SQL Server databases is announced for Q4 2013. In ApexSQL Audit 2013 R3, we have implemented several new features and improved usability for the existing ones
November 26, 2013ApexSQL named 2013 Community Choice Award winner by the Windows IT Pro Community
November 22, 2013, Raleigh, North Carolina – ApexSQL announced today that it has received a total of four honors (3 silver and 1 bronze) in Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine annual awards program
November 22, 2013ApexSQL Refactor vs. RedGate® SQL Prompt – Part 5 – Additional formatting features
In previous article ApexSQL Refactor vs RedGate® SQL Prompt – Part 4 – Additional formatting options formatting options which are found only in ApexSQL Refactor were described.
November 21, 2013