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What is SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

Redgate creates ingeniously simple software to help data professionals get the most value out of any database, anywhere, through the provision of end-to-end Database DevOps. More than 200,000 people globally, including 92% of the Fortune 100, trust Redgate to deliver ingeniously simple software. SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps you and your teams reduce manual, time-consuming work and increase productivity for SQL development and deployments. This set of industry-standard tools including SQL Prompt, SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare and SQL Source Control, are built by industry leaders to standardize SQL development across organizations. The 10 tools that make up SQL Toolbelt Essentials work together as part of an end-to-end process to simplify your workflow. By supporting database development best practices it paves the way to automation. With SQL Toolbelt Essentials you'll save time, increase code quality, and gain greater confidence in more frequent releases by: Writing SQL over 50% faster Slashing time spent on code reviews Sharing formatting styles and snippets Boosting collaboration by sharing changes Standardizing code across your organization Improving the quality of new code

SQL Toolbelt Essentials Details
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Product Description

Redgate's SQL Toolbelt provides products for SQL Server development, deployment, backup, and monitoring.


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1999
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Redgate offers end-to-end Database DevOps to help organizations streamline software development and get value from their data faster.Redgate’s portfolio of solutions helps organizations reliably solve the complex challenges of database management across the DevOps lifecycle on any database, anywhere. We make life easier for IT leaders, development and operations teams, increasing efficiency, reducing errors and safeguarding business-critical data.Together, the above make up Redgate’s company boilerplate for press releases. We also include the below:More than
00,000 people globally, including 9
% of the Fortune 100, trust Redgate to deliver ingeniously simple software.


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Recent SQL Toolbelt Essentials Reviews

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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Very useful tools"
Red-Gate tools are really useful for every day work, and quite easy to use. Customer support is very efficent; they respond in a few time.
Jonathan W.
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Jonathan W.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Supercharge your SQL Server development and team collaboration"
The SQL Toolbelt Essentials suite helps speed your T-SQL development with SQL Prompt, which has much better text completion than SSMS' built in Int...
Edward T.
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Edward T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"SQL Toolbelt Paid for Itself Many Times Over"
Each one of the tools in the toolbelt have proven their usefulness and time savings over and over again. The SQL Compare is fantastic for quick an...
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SQL Toolbelt Essentials Demo - Double your team's productivity
Write SQL over 50% faster with SQL Prompt's SQL snippets, auto code completion, and suggestions. Slash time spent on code reviews by fixing errors with autofixes, and generating high quality, error-free code so you can spend time on the work that makes a difference.
SQL Toolbelt Essentials Demo - Standardizing team-based development
Share formatting styles and snippets across teams using the Redgate Platform to ensure code remains high quality and consistent across your organization. Boost collaboration by sharing changes with the rest of your team using SQL Source Control. View a full history of changes, including who ch...
SQL Toolbelt Essentials Demo - High quality code as standard
Standardizing code across your organization is easy with features that let you run code analysis on your entire code base and apply formatting changes and autofixes in bulk. Improve the quality of new code while easily bringing legacy code up to standard. And let consistent styles across teams...
SQL Toolbelt Essentials Demo - Explore, document, and query your database
Search all your tables, views, stored procedures, functions, views, and jobs, with SQL Search. Document all your objects automatically, with SQL Doc. Fetch data from or make changes to 100s of databases at the same time, with SQL Multi Script. See the impact of your changes and catch orp...
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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

Each one of the tools in the toolbelt have proven their usefulness and time savings over and over again. The SQL Compare is fantastic for quick and easy comparison of two servers to ensure they are in sync for the data objects. The SQL Data Compare is also extremely valuable to compare data between two servers and make the data transfer with a few mouse clicks. The SQL Prompt makes the job of SQL script writing a whiz. The SQL Data Generator is a huge help when creating a new system and you just need some quick random data to test out the design and queries. While those are the tools I use most, I use each one of the tools in the toolbelt and the cost was worth every penny as it saves numerous hours of work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

I have not found any downsids of the SQL Toolbelt as it has paid for itself many times over in time savings making the job of a SQL Developer and DBA a joy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

It takes the built in SQL intelligence to a next level. I have saved numerous hours using the SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare after a deployment to verify that the systems are in the expected state. I have also used those two tools as a part of troubleshooting to ensure the state of the environment is what is expected and not contributing negatively to the situation. The SQL Multi Script makes the job of executing a batch of script files so quick and easy it makes my job less stressful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

The SQL Toolbelt Essentials suite helps speed your T-SQL development with SQL Prompt, which has much better text completion than SSMS' built in IntelliSense and saves tons of time by formatting your code just how you or your team like. SQL Compare will help you do diffs of your environments and sync them, providing a script that you can tweak and run. I've also saved lots of time with SQL Data Compare when dealing with lookup tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

The only downside is that it's not free, so I'm always having to convince my organization to pay for licenses, and sadly, I often fail in that regard. The cost is well worth it, though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem that it solves is improving our productivity in developing, testing, releasing, and maintaing our T-SQL code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

SQL Prompt, SQL Data Compare, and SQL Compare save my team countless hours every week. The advanced IntelliSense in SQL Prompt, the ability to create custom templates, and the customizable formatting in SQL Prompt exponentially increase our developer productivity in SQL Server Management Server. SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare have become vital to our release process.

As we are refactoring our databases, SQL Search and Dependency Tracker help us to track down the hidden uses of objects being refactored. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

Unfortunately, upgrading SSMS to a new major version requires uninstallation of all RedGate products and then a reinstall so they can be integrated into the latest version (e.g., from SSMS 19 to SSMS 20). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

Supports our SQL development and deployment needs. Make sure our db instances are current, our support data is accurate, and speeds SQL development tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

It's a really good tool, and specially helpful for onboarding new employees Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

Not all the tools are as useful daily, but overall they are ok Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick way to check differences between lifecycle of the development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

We use SQLPrompt, SQL Source Code, and SQL Search extensively in our organization which helps to streamline our work. The tools are easy to use, simple to implement, and integrate nicely within SSMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

We use the other tools far less often in our work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

Database migration scripts

Code formatting

Objects search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

Red-Gate tools are really useful for every day work, and quite easy to use.

Customer support is very efficent; they respond in a few time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

I think the main problem of these tools is about the SSMS integration. After a while you are using the tools integrated with SSMS, SSMS become quite slow to start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use the tools for the following main purposes:

- source control integration

- sql formatting

- database comparing (schema and data)

- database deploying

They eases really much database changes deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

I have been using Toolbelt now for over 10 years, and I can honestly say I would be lost without it. Keeping everything in its place, and managing change is its superpower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

It has a lot of features I don't use, but I guess that doesn't mean you wont! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

It lets me know everything that is happening between my dev and production evironments, and then allows syncing in either direction in a very granular way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thomas E R.
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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

Time Saving

Consistency

Accurate

Update logging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

Licensing model, subscription needs a pay monthly option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

Consistency in database administration and development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

SQL Compare and Data Compare are products I have been recommending to my clients since 2004. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

I mean...I'd like to be free, but the current price is worth it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

Comapring schemas for drift, and finding missing data in a restored database to merge back in Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fabio M.
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What do you like best about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

The most important thing about using SQL Toolbelt Essentials is the time saved on repetitive activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SQL Toolbelt Essentials?

The package has many tools and I don't use some of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SQL Toolbelt Essentials solving and how is that benefiting you?

Day by day database administration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.