ApexSQL Audit 2016 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Audit 2016 has been released

Type: Major feature, major fix 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), events on stored procedures and functions. ApexSQL Audit saves captured information in a centralized auditing repository and provides comprehensive reports.

March 21, 2016

Advantages of ApexSQL Data Diff vs. Visual Studio®

ApexSQL Data Diff is a tool for comparison and synchronization of SQL Server database data and it can compare live databases and backups. In this article, key and unique features, which create advantages of ApexSQL Data Diff vs. Visual Studio®, will be shown and explained.

March 3, 2016

Delta team update: ApexSQL Generate – Update 1

What have you been working on?

We have been working on adding new features in ApexSQL Generate, fixing bugs and improving the overall usability and quality of the tool. We have added some new generators including IronPython and Manual foreign key and extended the list of Predefined generators by more than 20, so there are 150+ predefined generators in total.

February 29, 2016

ApexSQL Generate 2016 R2 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Generate 2016 R2 has been released

Type: Major feature, major fix release

About ApexSQL Generate: ApexSQL Generate generates test data for specified columns and tables in SQL Server databases. It exports test data to SQL, XML, and CSV files, or executes it directly against the database.

February 26, 2016

Charlie team update: ApexSQL Complete and ApexSQL Refactor

What have you been working on?

Charlie team continue in a cycle of improving our free add-ins for SQL Server Management Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio. Our focus is currently on improving quality and usability improvements on ApexSQL Complete. We also improved impact preview for ApexSQL Refactor.

February 22, 2016

Golf team update: ApexSQL Monitor – Update 2

What have you been working on?

We have recently released ApexSQL Monitor 2016 R1 which has many new features like Failover cluster support, Blocking queries, Query waits alerting, Helpful tips and improvements like new redesigned charts and improved Server overview screen. Click here to find more about these features and improvements.

February 12, 2016

ApexSQL Refactor 2016 R2 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Refactor 2016 R2 has been released

Type: Minor feature, minor fix release

About ApexSQL Refactor: ApexSQL Refactor is a SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio SQL formatting and refactoring add-in with nearly 200 formatting and refactoring options such as table partitioning, renaming SQL objects, expanding wildcards and more.

February 11, 2016

ApexSQL Monitor vs the competition: Comparison matrix

We have just posted a new comparison matrix of ApexSQL Monitor vs other SQL Server performance monitoring tools, highlighting comparative feature sets. Click here to see the matrix

ApexSQL Monitor is a very new entrant to this crowded field, but with the 2016 release, we’ve made a major step closer to feature parity with some large enterprise products that have been around much longer. For several features, ApexSQL Monitor offers the feature when one of more of these other tools don’t.

January 27, 2016