I’m not sure what the marketing department is planning over at Quest Software.  But I thought I’d take a moment to tell you about some new, and free, beta releases that are of interest to SQL Server professionals.  I also want to point out that I always want to hear your feedback about any Quest product and will make sure that it gets to the right people in the company so that your feedback can be addressed immediately.

So what’s new?

Toad for SQL Server 4.0 Beta:  This release, the final beta drop for v4.0, features an all-new UI with lots of process improvements.

    http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/toad_ss_beta/message/3377

    http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/toadss/message/3434

    http://www.toadsoft.com/toadsqlserver/toad_sqlserver_beta.htm

Toad for Data Analysis 2.0 Beta: This release includes lots of new enhancements and added features.

    http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ToadforDataAnalysis/message/2216

    http://tda.inside.quest.com/thread.jspa?threadID=7206&tstart=0

   http://www.toadsoft.com/watson/beta.html

And don’t forget about Quest’s free SQL Server discovery tool that enables you to find SQL Servers anywhere within your enterprise, the SQL Server Discovery Wizard.

    www.quest.com/sqldiscovery

I look forward to hearing what you think soon!

-Kev