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SQL Monitor and “The Cloud”

By Richard Mitchell | Published: November 24, 2010
So, how can we demo this thing? In the beginning there was a product, and it was a good product for the testers had decreed it so, and nobody argues with a tester. But then comes the inevitable question of how can somebody test it out without risk. Red Gate prides itself on the tools [...]
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SQL Monitor – behind the scenes

By Fatherjack | Published: November 24, 2010
“Hi Jonathan, my name is Adam, I work for Red Gate, on the SQL Response team. I am wondering if it would be possible to arrange a user experience session with you please? It should only take about 10 or 15 minutes, if you could help us out we’d really appreciate it.” That’s how it [...]
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All things must PASS

By Adam | Published: November 15, 2010
The SQL Monitor team returned from the SQL PASS Summit today, bearing the much anticipated Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and a bunch of photographs that betray their much lauded work ethic. There is a huge amount of preparation and setting up that goes into an event like SQL PASS, so they claim, and clearly the [...]
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PASS Summit and the SQL Monitor Team

By Adam | Published: November 5, 2010
Some of Red Gate’s SQL Monitor Team will be heading out to Seattle for the SQL PASS Summit next week. Here are some of the the faces you can expect to see, and their tips for a great week… Talk to us and help shape our software – Do come and share your thoughts with [...]
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A Galaxy not so far away…

By Gareth Marlow | Published: November 4, 2010
We’ve had four Samsung Galaxy Tabs on order from Amazon for the last few weeks. They were due to show up this morning, but we got an email first thing to say they’d be a few weeks late. Undeterred, Ben and I went on a mission to Phones4U in central Cambridge, and ended up with [...]
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Getting Beta all the time

By Adam | Published: October 18, 2010
We are delighted to announce that the SQL Monitor 2 Beta is now available to download. If you’ve already signed up for the EAP, we’ve emailed the direct link to you, but if you haven’t yet signed up, please sign up here for SQL Monitor 2 Beta… As always, we’re really interested to know your [...]
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SQL Monitor

By Adam | Published: October 11, 2010
“The King is dead. Long live the King” Or perhaps that should be, ‘Prince is dead. Long live the artist formerly known as Prince’, as we’ve changed the name of our SQL monitoring tool, formerly SQL Response, to SQL Monitor. Obvious choice really. And more pronounceable than a symbol. So, this is version two, building [...]
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Swans and moths

By Adam | Published: August 10, 2010
Our 8th Early Access Program release is available today (sign up here if you haven’t already) and things are beginning to take shape. We’ve implemented more features, including support for clusters and more alert details, but we’ve yet to prettify it – it’s not so much an ugly duckling as a soon to be graceful [...]
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SQL Response v2 Early Access Program

By Adam | Published: June 24, 2010
SQL Response v2 Early Access Program sign up When we first launched this website in September last year, we had a simple aim – to gather the opinions of potential users of the SQL Server monitoring software we were starting to develop, version 2 of SQL Response. We hoped that by openly asking what people [...]
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SQL Response on the iPad and iPhone

By Adam | Published: June 9, 2010
Some of our team are at TechEd in New Orleans this week demoing the latest build of SQL Response v2. It works on the iPhone too! Very soon we’ll have a public Early Access Program, so if you want to get your hands on it while it’s still in development, visit the SQL Response v2 [...]
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