Delta team update: ApexSQL Generate (new product)

What have you been working on?

  • First we’ve published ApexSQL Script 2014 R2 maintenance release with fixed bugs.
  • We’ve created mockups for ApexSQL Generate and the UI, and then we’ve started the process of implementing the functionality.
  • Currently, this tool is on static test for its first release.
February 12, 2015

Steamroller team update: ApexSQL Backup (new product)

What have you been working on?

  • We have been focused on a new product, ApexSQL Backup, for managing SQL Server backups, among other things. Our plan is to release an R1 in a few weeks. We’re wrapping up log shipping code, polishing wizards, doing final updates on installer package and working on general stability/bug-fixes
February 11, 2015

ApexSQL Monitor 2015 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Monitor 2015 has been released

Type: Major feature, medium fix release

About ApexSQL Monitor: ApexSQL Monitor is a Windows and SQL Server monitoring tool with a wide range of monitored metrics. It tracks Windows, SQL Server instance, and database metrics on multiple local and remote machines and SQL Server instances. It monitors the most important SQL Server statistics, memory, buffer, and page metrics – batch requests per second, user connections, target and total server memory, buffer cache hit ratio, batch requests, page life expectancy, page reads and writes per second, and more. Monitoring these metrics enables you to identify and troubleshoot performance problems, establish trends, and set baselines.

February 10, 2015

ApexSQL Doc and SSISDB catalog packages

ApexSQL Doc is a tool that is used for database development, like documenting various databases, SSIS packages and SSAS cubes. Nevertheless, ApexSQL Doc doesn’t support documenting packages from SSISDB catalog.

We are planning to implement it in an upcoming release though.

Please see our roadmap for more details.

February 10, 2015

ApexSQL Audit Quick FAQs

What is the performance impact of ApexSQL Audit?

In general, performance impact of ApexSQL Audit shouldn’t be significant in most production environments. It cases when heavy traffic servers are being audited for significant amount of different events, there can be significant performance impact when central instance of ApexSQL Audit is installed on a production server – the higher server activity, the larger impact. Installation of ApexSQL on a dedicated server/Virtual machine provides the full performance without any significant impact on the production database server. ApexSQL Audit process all the data processed by SQL Server itself plus the trace technology and additional internal data and communication impact. We can provide guidance on this as needed.

February 2, 2015

ApexSQL Recover 2014 R4 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Recover 2014 R4 has been released

Type: Maintenance release

About ApexSQL Recover: ApexSQL Recover is a recovery tool for SQL Server databases which recovers deleted and truncated data. It recovers objects and data lost due to drop operations. It restores deleted and reads online BLOBs as files making it ideal for SharePoint recoveries.

January 21, 2015

ApexSQL Search 2014 R3 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Search 2014 R3 has been released.

Type: Maintenance release

About ApexSQL Search: ApexSQL Search is a SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio SQL database object and text search add-in. It offers search for data in encrypted objects, visualization, and printing of all object’s relationships, renaming objects, editing SQL object’s extended properties, and more.

January 21, 2015