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benden reviewed v1.77 Build 920 Beta on Jul 14, 2005

This product is awesome! The company I work for has recently purchased it and we're (a team of DBA's) using it to do everything now.
btw, I love the new SQL 2005 support - keep up the good work!

AnthonyB reviewed v1.77 Build 920 Beta on Jul 3, 2005

Essential SQL Server management tool.

In response to the comment about it going from beta to commercial product - surely you can't begrudge a person trying to make a buck from all the time and effort on a project? As someone who spent a lot of time testing and providing feedback on the betas the dev did reward me with a free copy so he's definitely not some heartless money grabbing mercenary.

thehunger reviewed v1.70 Build 718 RC2 on Feb 17, 2005

Sure, it is a very nice tool.
You know how it got that way? With the help of the hundreds of people that helped test it and who suggested improvements.

SQL Stripes is yet another of those freeware turned commercial software products. I have no problem with this, only that it should have been clear that was the intention all along. Ie. "HERE IS A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF A PRODUCT WE PLAN TO RELEASE AS COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE - PLEASE HELP US BETATEST IT".

IMHO, there is a difference between betatesting and helping open source or freeware authors, and betatesting to help those that plan to charge money for something.

Rolphus reviewed v0.90.200 Beta on Mar 24, 2004

I've been using this for a couple of weeks now. As someone responsible for maintaining and developing on one live server (with a couple of hundred users), one development server (with a few developers), and 3 other servers running assorted other databases, I can say I've finally found a utility that lets me quickly (and quickly really is the key word here) monitor my servers, run queries, access and export data on demand, and generally "keep an eye on things".

I downloaded this app out of curiosity, and now it's running several hours a day just so I can make sure things are going smoothly. It gives me visibility of problems as they happen, and doesn't place an appreciable load on the server.

Truly great work - the developers deserve a great deal of respect for this application!

Rolphus

loruss reviewed v0.80.900 Beta on Mar 12, 2004

This program DELIVERS! from my experience as veteran SQL admin, keeping your eyes open on your productions servers is not easy. This tool is exactly what I looked after. Thanks Adi!

aetchin reviewed v0.80.900 Beta on Mar 12, 2004

One of the BEST "keep it simple" db control programs, helped me alot with remote servers at work...

chowda reviewed v0.80.800 Beta on Mar 8, 2004

I am fascinated! I've been a DBA for a long time and was looking for such tool. And to my best surprise - It's a free one!

AnthonyB reviewed v0.80.600 Beta on Jan 5, 2004

0.80.600 Beta supports MDAC 2.80 no problem.

Lanfeust.xit reviewed v0.80.400 Beta on Oct 17, 2003

Seems great but can use because the programd does not recognize MDAC 2.8 ! Ir tells me that my version is too old !! :)
Waiting for an update

Regards...

AnthonyB reviewed v0.80.100 Beta on Sep 25, 2003

To the previous poster - go install MS XML 4.0 SP2 available from MS site or check new version of SQL Stripes.

BinaryBoy reviewed v0.70.900 Beta on Sep 24, 2003

I really wish I could give a good review of this software because from the screens and description it really seems like it would be a nice piece of software but I can't even get it to install at all. I've tried downloading the install several times but always get the same error during install "Error 1904. Module C:\Program Files\SQL Stripes\DLL\msxml4.dll failed to register..."

AnthonyB reviewed v0.70.900 Beta on Sep 24, 2003

Well, I'm prepared to up my rating from the original 4 to 5 after the last 5-6 updates. Developer responds to feature suggestions and apart from 1 issue mentioned below I've come across no major bugs. Since I admin over 10 SQL servers this app is my first port of call for server and DB status before I go to SQL Enterprise Manager. My only wish is that the config database could be kept between versions so I don't have to keep re-entering all my DBs each update. Yes, it's easier now that they can be imported from SQL Enterprise Manager but it's still time consuming looking up all my passwords and entering them in.

bsmith reviewed v0.70.600 Beta on Aug 4, 2003

This is awesome! So many daily DBA tasks that used to be major time consumers for me are now done in a jiffy using this app.
I've been willing to buy such a product for my company and now I've found one for free... unbelievable...
Keep up the good work!