We are happy to announce the today’s we release of SQL Enlight 1.9 Beta 2.

Here are the main release notes:

• Fixed the 80004003 error which appeared when starting Viusal Studio or SSMS.
• Several documentation improvements including new tutorials for creating analysis rules.
  • SQL Enlight Online Documentation
  • How To: Extend Analysis Template with Visual Studio
  • How To: Create Analysis Rule with Visual Studio
  • How To: Create Analysis Rule with Rule Designer
• A new SDK component, which is mainly meant to provide API for creating and testing custom analysis rules. See the SQL Enlight SDK Reference for more information.

The new version can be downloaded here.

After almost a year, we are very happy to announce the release of SQL Enlight 1.9.0.587 Beta.
Here follows a list of the major new features and improvements that are included in it.

New Features

1. Static Code Analysis TFS Check-in Policy. Both TFS 2008 and TFS 2010 are supported.
2. Two new refectories:
   • Expand Wildcards
   • Add Statement Terminators
3. Layout:
   • Option to ignore layout of selected statements
   • New comment layout options
4. 25 new analysis rules. See here for complete list of the new rules.

Improvements

• Command line tool, NAnt and MSBuild tasks improvements now support recursive processing of folders and multiple target files.
• Analysis rules – several extensions made available including.
• Layout command – syntax errors will not stop the layout, but will just skip the source batch.
• Automatic updates checking.
• Memory usage optimizations.

Free features

The following features are now free to use and are not trial limited:

• Validate SQL Code
• Statements History
• Summarize Script
• Outline Statements

The version is 1.9.0.587 and is available for download here.

We are happy to announce the release of the latest SQL Enlight version – 1.8.1.541.

Here is what’s new in this release:

• Encapsulate as View
• Encapsulate as sp_executesql call
• Extract to separate script
• Extract object’s body to separate script
• Expand sp_executesql call
• Qualify object names refactoring
• Encrypted database objects support
• NAnt Tasks

In addition to the above features, the new version includes updated analysis rules and a few other improvements and small fixes.

SQL Enlight 1.8.1.541 is available for download here.

Version 1.7.3.515 of SQL Enlight is already released and available for download.

Here is what’s new in this release:

• Extended query execution plan analysis support
• A new analysis rule for query execution plan analysis – EX0018
• A new external template parameter support in the command line tool and MSBuild tasks
• Small improvements and fixes

The new parameter is added to provide a way to set external analysis template which to be used during analysis instead of the default one. Check the SQL Enlight documentation for the command line tool and MSBuild tasks parameters.

As the Execution Plan Analysis is the most important feature update in this release, here we have prepared a separate post for it.

We will be happy to help you if you have any questions or comments.

Thank you!

Last week we released a new version of SQL Enlight – 1.7.2.513.
It contains just small fixes and 2 new features:

• A new layout rule ‘Miscellaneous->Keywords padding’.

-- Keyword Padding option set to 10:
SELECT     ProductID ,
           SpecialOfferID ,
           AVG( UnitPrice ) AS 'Average Price' ,
           SUM( LineTotal ) AS SubTotal
FROM       Sales.SalesOrderDetail
WHERE      SpecialOfferID IN(  1 ,
                               2 ,
                               6 ,
                               9 )
GROUP BY   ProductID ,
           SpecialOfferID
ORDER BY   ProductID ,
           SpecialOfferID DESC

-- Keyword Padding option set to 0:

SELECT ProductID ,
       SpecialOfferID ,
       AVG( UnitPrice ) AS 'Average Price' ,
       SUM( LineTotal ) AS SubTotal
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
WHERE  SpecialOfferID IN(  1 ,
                           2 ,
                           6 ,
                           9 )
GROUP BY ProductID ,
         SpecialOfferID
ORDER BY ProductID ,
         SpecialOfferID DESC

• A new XSLT extension method ‘execute-query-plan’ which to enable support for query plan analysis.

We will describe in more detail the usage of this method in the next post.

The new version is already available for download here.