Red-Gate's SQL tools, SQL Compare and SQL Data
Compare, are very widely used and are probably the most popular SQL Server tools
available – out of approximately 2,000 on the market. They are considered to be
industry-standard tools for developers and DBAs using SQL Server. Red-Gate has a strong
views about the nature of the development process when SQL Server is a key part
of the solution. Read their short article about SQL Development Processes.
ANTS Load is for testing web applications
written in Visual Studio .NET. It is the first product, globally, to feature
Visual Studio for Applications. We have several articles about testing web
services (please contact us to
find out more about these). They also have a code profiling tool, ANTS Profiler,
for pinpointing slow lines of code in .NET applications.