Red Gate roadmap archive
This roadmap archive shows how our products have developed in previous years. To view our most recent developments, please see our current roadmap.
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2007 |
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| Exception Hunter is released, allowing developers to easily find unhandled exceptions thrown by a function. |
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| Beta of SQL Data Generator launched. A tool to generate test data for SQL Server databases. | |
| SQL Multi Script 1.0 is released, enabling SQL Server database professionals to execute multiple scripts against multiple SQL Servers with a single click. |
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| The SQL Toolbelt is now priced at $1595. A support and upgrades package is typically 25% extra and includes all new tools released over the duration of the contract. | |
| SQL Data Compare 6 is released with revolutionary new UI features and the ability to compare to backups (Pro edition). |
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| Red Gate Software launches an updated version of SQLServerCentral.com. Membership for the site is rapidly approaching the 500,000 mark. | |
| Release of SQL Compare 6, enabling users to compare and synchronize to and from object-level SQL scripts. | |
| SQL Backup 5 is released with a major new GUI. |
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| PInvoke.net, a wiki that provides native method (PInvoke) signatures, has joined Simple Talk Publishing. |
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| Red Gate Software wins a Jolt award for SQL Refactor, a software tool that provides database refactoring for the first time in SQL Server. | |
| Red Gate triumphs in Best Companies award. | |
| ANTS Profiler 3 is released, providing integration with Visual Studio and support for 64-bit applications. | |
| SQL Prompt 3 is released, providing intelligent code completion for SQL Server editors. | |
2006 |
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| SQL Professional Toolbelt becomes available, giving DBAs and developers access to all our products on a subscription basis. |
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| The first version of SQL Doc is released, transforming the time-consuming task of database documentation into a simple point-and-click procedure. | |
| DTS Package Compare removed from SQL Bundle. | |
| A low-cost version of SQL Backup, SQL Backup Lite, is released. | |
| Database refactoring is available for the first time in SQL Server through the release of SQL Refactor. | |
| Red Gate Software achieves 16th-place ranking in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100. | |
| Red Gate Software launches the new and improved Simple Talk website, which already sees subscription levels reaching the 74,000 mark. | |
| A completely new tool, SQL Dependency Tracker, is released to graphically track SQL Server object dependencies. | |
| Red Gate acquires Attadore's SQL Prompt, and releases SQL Prompt 2.0, free of charge. | |
| SQL Bundle 5 is released, including Pro versions of SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare, and SQL Packager. | |
| Command-line interface removed from SQL Toolkit and added to individual Pro versions. | |
| Red Gate Software wins the "Business of the Year Award" run by the Cambridge Evening News. | |
| Red Gate Software releases SQL Backup Pro Edition, providing high-performance backup and recovery for enterprise-level SQL Server implementations. | |
| DTS Compare is replaced with DTS Package Compare, to quickly identify differences in DTS packages. | |
2005 |
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| Speed of performance profiling is doubled in ANTS Profiler 2.5 and it also supports Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. |
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| Red Gate Software announces that its complete line of SQL products will fully support Microsoft SQL Server 2005. | |
| SQL Packager wins best SQL Server migration tool in the annual SQL Server Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. | |
| SQL Bundle Developer Edition wins a Best of Tech Ed award in the Database Development category. | |
| SQL Log Rescue, a tool for viewing and recovering SQL Server data, is released. | |
| Brad McGehee, SQL Server MVP and author on SQL-Server-Performance.Com, interviews Red Gate's Marketing Director about his thoughts and views on major trends in the SQL Server market. | |
| Steve Jones at SQL Server Central interviews Red Gate's Simon Galbraith about his current views on the industry. | |
| Red Gate launches a new website, Simple Talk, as an industry service. The site offers in-depth technical articles and opinion pieces on SQL Server and .NET technologies. | |
| Red Gate's Andras Belokosztolszki has an article published in SQL Server Magazine: Semantic Heterogeneity Spells Trouble (log on required to view full article). | |
| Support for .NET Framework 2.0, and a new "Check for Updates" service, are added to SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare. | |
| SQL Backup is released for quicker, more secure backups of SQL Server databases. | |
2004 |
Command-line versions of SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare and SQL Packager are included in the SQL Toolkit. |
| Research by Red Gate's Neil Davidson and Simon Galbraith is mentioned in a book about website optimization by Andrew King. | |
| SQL Compare wins a SQL Server Magazine Readers' Choice Award. | |
| Neil Davidson has an article published, discussing how he overcame a problem with .NET when trying to write good code. Extending the save file dialog class in .NET, The Code Project. | |
| Red Gate obtains exclusive distribution rights to the Best of SQLServerCentral.Com, Vol.1 ebook, and is offering free downloads from their website. | |
| SQL Compare fully supports encrypted stored procedures, views, and functions. | |
| Memory profiling and the ability to take snapshots of an application are included in ANTS Profiler 2.0. | |
| A tool for packaging database schemas and data, SQL Packager, is released, allowing for easier database installation. |
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| The SQL scripts produced by SQL Data Compare are improved. | |
| Red Gate decides to remove Aardvark from its website, and concentrate development efforts on its tools for SQL Server and .NET. | |
| COMpare removed from SQL Bundle. | |
| SQL Compare scripts databases in the correct order even when the sysdepends table is broken, and you can now select individual records for migration in SQL Data Compare. | |
| SQL Data Compare now has the ability to select rows to migrate on a row-by-row basis. | |
| Although .NET provides a number of quick and easy ways to serialize and deserialize data, do not use them. Neil Davidson explains why in this article: Nine reasons not to use serialization, The Code Project. | |
| A slightly controversial article written by Red Gate's Neil Davidson is published: Mono and dotGNU: what's the point?, Slashdot. | |
2003 |
ANTS Load 1.6 is released, supporting .NET Framework 1.1. | SQL Bundle Developer Edition is introduced. | An article about the SQL Toolkit is published. Red Gate SQL Server Toolkit Targets Overburdened DBAs, eWEEK.com. | SQL Toolkit is released, making it easier to create automated programs to compare and synchronize databases. | |
SQL Compare has been completely rewritten, and is now as much as 100 times faster than its predecessor. | |
DevX.com has published an article written by Red Gate's Simon Galbraith. Requirements Analysis: Take Emotion Out of Software Purchasing Decisions. | The Register has published an article written by Red Gate's Simon Galbraith, Outsourcing: does it reward theft? | An update to DTS Compare is released, with a new GUI, and a reworking of server snapshots. |
| SQL Data Compare is rewritten, and now has a new GUI, and supports all data types including text, ntext, and images. | |
Neil Davidson, Technical Director at Red Gate Software, has an article published. Lipstick on a Pig: An Object-oriented Layer on an OS That's Not, DevX.com. |
| ANTS Profiler 1.2 adds support for Visual Studio.NET 2003 and .NET Framework 1.1. | |
Red Gate Software's Simon Galbraith has an article published. An Automated Solution for Migrating Database Structures, DevX.com. | DTS Compare is released, for comparing SQL Servers. | COMpare is released, for diagnosing mysterious ActiveX/COM errors. | Aardvark 2.0 is released, making issues easier to reproduce and manage, and enhancing communication and the development processes. | ANTS Profiler 1.0 is released, to quickly pinpoint slow .NET code, designed to be the simplest .NET profiler available. | |
2002 |
SQL Compare 2.01 features increased speed, and better support for data-type changes, dependencies, and SQL 2000 features such as views, triggers, and indexes. | |
SQL Compare is voted as 'the tool that saves the most time' by the members of SQL Server Central. | Red Gate publishes the results of a study on website frustration on some well-known websites. | |
Version 1.5 of ANTS Load is released. |
| ANTS Load 1.0 is launched, just days after Microsoft releases Visual Studio .NET to manufacturing. | |
2001 |
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| Red Gate realizes the potential of .NET, and releases the first beta of ANTS Load, Red Gate's load testing tool based on .NET and VSA technologies. | |
2000 |
Synchronization capability is added to SQL Compare. | SQL Data Compare is released to compare and synchronize the contents of SQL Server databases. |
1999 |
SQL Compare, the first-ever tool for comparing SQL Server databases, is released. | First version of Aardvark, one of the first browser-based bug tracking systems, is released as a hosted service. | Red Gate Software is founded by Neil Davidson and Simon Galbraith. |