Microsoft® SQL Server™ is a database management and analysis system for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions. In this section, you will find information for several versions of SQL Server. You will also find articles on database and database application design, as well as examples of the uses that SQL Server can be put to.

Database Oasis provides database software solutions with no coding requirements. Rather than spending money on custom application development for your small business solutions, purchasing multiple desktop applications, or paying a DBA for custom database solutions, this simple database designer uses point-and click to offer an easy database creation alternative.

FileMaker Server is fast, reliable server software for managing and sharing database solutions created using FileMaker Pro (separate purchase is required) and extending solutions to the web. Groups both small and large are able to simultaneously access the most up-to-date information, making them more productive than ever.

Easily monitor and view the performance of both physical server and VMware or Hyper-V virtual server environments to get a complete view of SQL Server databases. View performance metrics and alerts for virtual machines and their related hosts including CPU, memory, disk usage, network etc. to get a complete performance picture of the SQL server environment.

Performance monitoring for physical and virtual environments
Query plan monitoring to see the causes of blocks and deadlocks
History browsing to find and troubleshoot past issues
Predictive alerting with settings to avoid false alerts
Database growth forecasting to minimize server sprawl
Web-based dashboard with at-a-glance views of top issues and alerts

EMS Data Import for DB2 is a powerful tool to import data to DB2 tables from MS Excel 97-2007, MS Access, DBF, XML, TXT, CSV, MS Word 2007, RTF, ODF and HTML files. It provides adjustable import parameters, including source data formats for all the fields and destination DB2 data formats for the selected fields, commit options, number of records to skip, etc. Data Import for DB2 includes a wizard, which allows you to set all the DB2 import options for different files visually, and a command-line utility to execute import to DB2 database in one-touch.

EMS Data Generator for DB2 is an impressive tool for generating test data to DB2 database tables with the possibility to save and edit scripts. The utility can help you to simulate the database production environment and allows you to populate several DB2 database tables with test data simultaneously, define tables and fields for generating data, set value ranges, generate DB2 char fields by mask, define lists of values manually or select them from SQL queries, set generation parameters for each field type and has many other features to generate DB2 test data in a simple and direct way. Data Generator for DB2 also provides a console application, which allows you to generate DB2 test data in one-touch by using generation templates.

EMS Data Export for DB2 is a powerful tool to export DB2 database data quickly to any of 20 available formats, including MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word (RTF), HTML, XML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, ODF and others. The program supports latest DB2 versions and has the ability to export DB2 data from several tables, views or queries at the same time. Data Export for DB2 includes a wizard, which allows you to set DB2 export options for each table visually (destination filename, exported fields, data formats, and much more) and a command line utility to export DB2 data from tables and queries in one-touch.

SQLite Expert Professional is a powerful visual tool that enables you to easily administer your SQLite3 databases.SQLite Expert integrates database management and maintenance into a single, seamless environment, with a clear and intuitive graphical user interface.

Including extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) packages for data warehousing and business automation. Visual Importer ETL Enterprise includes graphical tools and wizards for building and debugging automation packages; Actions for performing work-flow functions such as FTP operations, executing SQL statements, and file manipulations; data sources and destinations for extracting and loading data; Unlike DTS, SSIS and Oracle Warehouse builder, Visual Importer ETL Enterprise can send and receive emails and process attachments as well. By combining simple ETL Package Actions together Visual Importer ETL Enterprise helps businesses and Fortune 100 companies to automate complicated business processes and everyday tasks.

Monitor the health and availability of your BI environment including SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Integration Services. Ensure uptime and identify issues quickly. View active sessions on SSAS server including the user name, last command, cube, session start time, and much more. In addition, you can view report execution performance from SSRS servers. Get access to data such as resource utilization, cube sizes & report generation performance from your BI environment and identify issues before they become painful. Set alerts and email notifications with configurable threshold levels to keep you informed of only the relevant information. Login from anywhere and quickly check the status of monitored SQL BI server instances. The customizable web dashboard provides at-a-glance status of top issues and alerts with easy drill down capabilities so you can identify and diagnose issues quickly.