Free Sql Server Tools Every Dev Should Have

Dave Gorman MCSD,MCDBA

Tons of tools

Sql Server Mag : Dec 2010◦Top Products issue

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tools/64908/

weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp:◦Free SQL Server tools that might make your life

a little easier

Agenda

Free add on to SSMS to aide in ongoing development◦http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/

Troubleshooting Performance Problems◦sp_whoisactive◦http://www.ignitefree.com/◦Atlantis Data Space Analyzer

Keep DB optimized◦http://ola.hallengren.com/

During Development

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taMgmt/DBProgramming/ssms-tools-pack-something-every-sql-serv-2

Snippets, Query History, Gen Inserts, Search DB content

Troubleshooting

<demo sp_whoisactive>

sp_whoisactive◦ Replaces sp_who2 and dbcc inputbuffer(xx)◦ @help=1 for extensive help

◦ http://sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2010/10/21/who-is-active-v10-00-dmv-monitoring-made-easy.aspx

◦ How To: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/09/sql-server

-dba-scripts-how-to-find-slow-sql-server-queries/ http://www.sqlmag.com/article/sql-server/SP_WhoIsA

ctive.aspx

Maintenance

Index Health◦Rebuilding vs Reorganizing

<demo ola.hallengren.com>http://ola.hallengren.com/Documentation.html#GettingStarted

Questions?

Other Free software:◦Tableau Software◦Quest’s Toad Data Modeler◦LessThanDot’s SQLCop

Useful links:◦http://sqlcat.com/◦http://www.sqlservercentral.com/◦http://sqlserverpedia.com/◦http://www.sqlteam.com/◦http://sqlblog.com/