Six months after introducing SQL Prompt 3.0, the Red Gate development team has released an upgrade that delivers support for cross-database and distributed queries over linked servers, a five-fold increase in speed, 95 percent less memory use, and a host of improvements to the behaviors of the candidate list.
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom (BusinessWire EON) July 31, 2007 --
Six months after introducing SQL Prompt 3.0, the Red Gate development
team has released an upgrade that delivers support for cross-database
and distributed queries over linked servers, a five-fold increase in
speed, 95 percent less memory use, and a host of improvements to the
behaviors of the candidate list.
SQL Prompt is a $195 T-SQL code-completion add-in for Visual Studio,
Management Studio, SSMS Express Edition and Query Analyzer. It
intelligently anticipates the code candidates that SQL Server
professionals need as they’re writing,
enabling faster, error-free T-SQL queries.
“SQL Prompt 3.5 is a major upgrade in
point-release clothing,” says Bart Read, the
product’s lead developer. “The
previous version had some difficulties with very large databases, which
made it slower loading the meta data. But that’s
all cleared away with this version. This one is a beast.”
The most-requested new feature available in SQL Prompt 3.5 is support
for cross-database and distributed queries over linked servers, which is
especially beneficial for organizations with complex SQL queries that
run across multiple servers.
But for SQL pros such as Joe Niland, speed rules. A real-time demo on
the Red Gate web site shows SQL Prompt 3.5 saving up to 60 percent on
straight typing, a savings not lost on Niland.
“With a single-user license priced at $195,
SQL Prompt 3.5 is definitely worth the money, especially for the speed
increase it gives you,” he says. “The
product does as promised, which is allowing you to type in SQL much more
rapidly.”
A “prosthetic SQL brain”
The SQL Prompt 3.5 candidate list has been upgraded in at least half a
dozen ways, making it “much cleverer”
according to Read. Among the improvements are foreign keys that are
tracked so more appropriate code candidates can go to the head of the
candidate queue.
SQL Prompt 3.5 now also supports Visual Studio 2005, making it
accessible to a wider user community.
“This is a fantastic time-savings tool for
all those web application developers who get the default ‘SQL
guy’ moniker applied in the office but who
actually prefer to spend as little time as possible dealing with the
database,” says Read. “SQL
Prompt 3.5 is like having your very own prosthetic SQL brain.”
A demo, walkthrough, and fully functional,14-day trial download of SQL
Prompt 3.5 can be found at www.red-gate.com.
About Red Gate Software
Red Gate Software makes ingeniously simple tools for Microsoft
technology developers and DBAs. The company’s
product line includes tools for comparing, synchronizing, packaging,
backing up and recovering SQL Server databases; understanding and fixing
Visual Studio code problems to enable better performance; and profiling
.NET web applications. Red Gate is a silver sponsor for the Visual
Studio 2005 launch and a Visual Studio Industry Partner.
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