Database management is a complex task and the administrator or developer might need simple tools to perform complex tasks on a database. The tools the come along with the database might be useful for performing simple tasks on the database, but they need specialized tools for doing some specialized tasks on the database.

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Consider the simple task of doing a synchronization of a remote database to the local database. Do you think it is a easy task? What if you need to synchronize only the selected columns that meet particular criteria set by you? You can’t do it by the tools available in the database or write complex queries or stored procedures to do the task. You might need a simple tool to do that. Not all the databases come with tools to perform such tasks. In such cases, you have to look for the third-party tools.

In any application that uses a database there might be a situation where the application’s performance is very poor. This poor performance might be due to a slow running query in the database. How to find that query and tune it? If you have a tool to identify the slow running queries you problem will be solved easily and your application will be having good performance. Does your database have a tool to find out the slow running query? Most of them do not have it.

SQL Block Monitor, DTM SQL Editor, and SQL Studio Data Compare are some of the third party tools that you might need for managing MS SQL Server. Comparing two databases and synchronizing them based on the criteria set by you is an often performed task. This can be done easily with SQL Studio Data Compare. Tools like SQL Block monitor helps you to find out the sql query that is slow running and consumes more memory and CPU time on your server. With such tool you can tune the query for optimum performance.