Published
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:40 PM
Well that's pretty self-explanatory. We've had a few teething problems trying to get this thing ready and on the FTP site today so this will be a rather more brief post than I'd originally planned. I'd intended to talk about some of the new features in a little more depth, however I'll do that over the next few days.
Anyway, cutting to the chase, the forum announcement is here:
http://www.red-gate.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=5263And the download URL is:
ftp://ftp.red-gate.com/sqlpromptbeta/SQLPrompt3.5.0.000323.exe
Major new features and improvements include:
- Visual Studio 2005 database project support
- Cross database queries
- Distributed queries across linked SQL Server instances
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Correlated subqueries
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3 – 5 times faster metadata retrieval
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Large script support
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40 – 95% decrease in memory footprint
The team have worked really hard on this and so there are also a whole raft of other fixes and enhancements in there but I'll talk more about all this stuff tomorrow and over the next few days. Right now I have a barbecue to go to, and it looks dangerously like it might not even rain which (let me tell you) makes a very pleasant change round here at the moment.
Enjoy the RC. As I say, more of an update soon, and all being well the final release should be out by the end of the month.
About Bart Read
Bart has done many things since he started work at Red Gate Software Ltd in August 2004, but nowadays he's (mainly) the product manager for the .NET Developer Tools. He still feels like this is a bit like admitting you were cheering for the Empire whilst watching Star Wars, but for now he's along for the ride. In a previous incarnation he was a project manager leading the .NET Reflector Pro, ANTS Memory Profiler 5, ANTS Performance Profiler 4 & 5, and SQL Prompt 3.0 - 3.6 projects. He still occasionally writes some code and, in the past, has touched the code for most of the Red Gate SQL developer tools... some of them still haven't recovered from the shock. He was born and grew up in Dorset, was educated in Nottingham and London, and likes music and real ale. His photo is extremely misleading.