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Top 20 Toolbelt Tips
Tom Austin, Red Gate
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About me
• Pre-Sales Engineer who has worked with Redgate SQL Server
tools since 2008.
• Worked with hundreds of clients across the globe, from start-
ups to FTSE/Fortune 100 companies and everything in
between.
• Specialises in helping clients to improve their approach to
Database Lifecycle Management (DLM)
• Recently been writing and delivering DLM training courses in
Europe and Asia
Tom Austin
Pre-sales Engineering
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SQL Toolbelt
Redgate's SQL Toolbelt contains the
industry-standard products for SQL
Server development, deployment,
backup, and monitoring.
Together, they make you productive,
your team agile, and your data safe
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1. Colour code your databases
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2. Find your dependencies
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3. Standardise your layout
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4. Standardise your code
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5. Undo Changes
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6. Find references quickly
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7. Don’t write documentation…ever
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8. Spot drift before someone else does
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9. Never lose a query
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10. Quickly fill a table for testing
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11. Customise your generated data
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12. Run your queries once
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13. Banish wildcards!
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14. Clean up your database
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15. Customise your deployment scripts
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16. Script as insert
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17. Rename your alias
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18. Switch tools fast
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19. Follow best practices
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20. Never forget a where clause
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“I didn’t know we had that”
“I didn’t realise that was in the bundle”
-Sooo many people I speak to!