Here is a look at the best tools available today, as well as a quick introduction to what an SQL database actually is for the uninitiated.

From our award-winning SQL Server database solutions to multi-platform database, application and cloud monitoring tools, IDERA ensures your business never slows down.

This release follows last year’s major dbForge tools for SQL Server 7.0 milestone, where the company introduced deeper automation, T-SQL code analysis, and a huge number of other enhancements.

And the database platforms it supports include Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2 UDB, SAP Sybase ASE, MySQL, and any other databases with ODBC connectivity. Among the tools I’ve mentioned, it also ...

The software arm of Dell Inc. yesterday announced new versions of a bevy of products for the caretaking and development of SQL Server relational database management systems (RDBMSes). Dell Software ...

--Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced expanded monitoring for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure database platforms. The announcement ...

Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements.

Those responses form the foundation of the report and reveal the significant adoption of third-party database monitoring tools in Financial Services, which may reflect the ongoing situation where ...

Hence the rise in the use of database monitoring tools, which appear to reduce frustration, save time and allow DBAs to focus their efforts on contributing value to the business elsewhere.

I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality.