Reporting / DLL (Dynamic Link Libraries) / SQL Server Tools & SQL Server Utilities

What is a DLL? A DLL, short for Dynamic Link Library, is a library that contains both code and data that can be used as a shared DLL or resource DLL by more than one program or application at the same time. Using Windows DLLs or DLL libraries allows the developer to make more efficient use of memory and disk space, as well as allowing for a more modular approach to the application design that encourages componentization and code re-use.

A DLL library can be used as a software component to add functionality to your application or project, without the need to spend the time to write all of the code yourself. You will find .NET DLL products and C# DLL products here for a variety of common tasks that are both visual and non-visual.

For example you will find dynamic DLL products that are datagrid DLLs that enable you to provide data grids or to present datatables in your app. Or if you need full calc engine functionality there are spreadsheet DLLs available too. If you are looking for charting DLLs or graphing DLLs, you will find several products here to include in your application to draw pie-charts, bar charts, line graphs etc.

Other visual DLL libraries listed here include: a DLL editor for text editing and word processing, calendar DLLs for planning and scheduling, Computer Aided Design or CAD DLLs, image processing DLLs and image conversion DLLs and DLL libraries for document imaging & scanning, OCR DLLs for optical character recognition projects, as well as complex DLLs for multi-media and video compression tasks, or a simple dynamic DLL to display a barcode.

You will also find non-visual dynamic DLL products, that work in the background to add functionality to your your application, such as sending and receiving emails via SMTP or POP or transferring files via FTP or HTTP over the Internet. Or non-visual data reporting DLLs to create daily management reports or scheduled MIS reports overnight or to create PDF files in batch mode using a PDF DLL library to carry out the file format and conversion task for you.

You will also find similar C++ DLL or CPP DLL products or DLL libraries for your Visual C++ application or the equivalent Borland library for your BC++ project code.

What is SQL Server? SQL Server is a relational database product from Microsoft sometimes called MS SQL Server or MSFT SQL Server.

In this area of our product catalog you will find commercial grade, quality SQL Server tools that will help you manage your MS SQL Server database. We have SQL Server database tools that work with various versions of SQL Server, so we have SQL Server 2008 tools and SQL Server 2005 tools for you to assess. Many of these SQL Server tool products have trials available as SQL Server tools downloads for you to evaluate. This SQL Server product gallery allows you to find, read about, compare, download, review, try and buy Microsoft SQL Server tools.

The SQL Server utilities listed here in our on-line catalog of SQL Server tool products cover a wide variety of functionality. For example, you will find SQL tools that allow you to compare SQL statements and to compare schemas in your SQL Server database. Some of these SQL Server tools go further than this and then allow you to track changes in your SQL Server database, then synchronize the SQL Server databases if they are found to be different. There are also advanced SQL Server audit and SQL Server log tools, to help you manage and monitor the SQL audit and SQL log files produced by your SQL Server db. SQL Server backup tools and backup utilities are also available, to help you manage your MSFT SQL Server data and back it up securely and efficiently. We also have SQL Server data recovery tool, that help you get data back that you may have lost due to a failure of some sort.

Looking at SQL Server tools aimed at developers and SQL Server testing, there are tools for developers to help them compare and update data schemas from one version release to another. SQL Server test data generator tools are also available, to populate your empty dev databases with realistic data, so that you can run tests more easily before you deploy your SQL Server data based application. There are SQL refactoring tools to help format your code in a standard way to make it more readable and easier to maintain. In addition there are a wide variety of data access and data binding tools, utilities and software components to help you get reliable and fast access to your SQL Server data.

So whether you are looking for a SQL Server 2005 tool or a SQL Server 2008 tool or a specific SQL Server utility, we have a wide range of products for you to compare, download, review, try and buy. This area of our Web site is updated regularly with new SQL Server tool products and new SQL Server utility releases, so if you want to keep up to date with all the SQL Server Tools News, please subscribe to our SQL Server tool RSS news feed.