SQL Server Tuning Blog

The acquisition will expand the acquiring company's solutions for the applicative environment of MS SQL. DBSophic, has developed an innovative solution for SQL server's workload tuning. Customers include Siemens, Nestle, BMW, and the US air force.

The developer of the EZManage SQL software, DBA Services, announced the acquisition of DBSophic. The company notes that the acquisition will expand its solutions on the applicative environment of Microsoft SQL.

DBSophic is an innovative developer of performance management products, named Qure Optimizer and Cure Analyzer, which are dedicated to systems based on MS SQL platform and suffer from significant performance problems. The Qure Optimizer analyzes server workloads, provides particularized recommendations (indexing scheme, SQL rewrites, schema changes and more) and may also apply the implementation.

Qure Optimizer, the leading workload tuning solution for SQL Server, provides a performance improvement in a short time and it is a complementary product for a wide range of solutions, DBA Services offers under the brand EZManage SQL. Both company's client's operations are located mostly in the US or Europe and the combined company will offer a wider range of solutions.

DBSophic's customers include Easy Forex, BMW, Nestl?, Siemens and the US air force. Aviv Madmon, CEO of DBA Services, stated that "the acquisition is expected to triple the combined company's sales during the near future and also to provide more innovative solutions in the future".

Just two months ago, we launched the beta version of Qure Analyzer V1.5. We would like to thank the hundreds of users who took part in the beta plan, used the beta version, reported bugs and provided valuable feedback. Today, I'm proud to announce the GA release of Qure Analyzer V1.5. You can download your copy here.

For a full list of features, see the previous blog post or have fun reading the very detailed user guide.

About a year ago, we launched Qure Analyzer V1.0 (previously called Qure Workload Analyzer). Since then, we had thousands of downloads and received a lot of great feedback from the community. We did not rest... Your feedback and bug reports kept us busy improving, fixing and enhancing Qure Analyzer to keep its position as the best workload analysis tool available for SQL Server.

The long expected announcement has finally come...

Partners and customers can already download the evaluation version, GA to begin ~ April 1^st.

RC stands for Release Candidate, it’s a much more stable and ‘close to final’ version than the previous CTP versions.

Go get your copy from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145

2 days ago, Microsoft announced the new licensing scheme and available editions for SQL 2012.

In a nutshell:

As you probably know already, earlier this month at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft has announced the official name for the next release of SQL Server, formerly code named “Denali”.

A new SQL Server blog site was born today!

I hope you will find this site as beneficial and interesting at least as much as I intend to.