My boss has asked me to research some basic good tools for our DBAs/Developers. I personally would highly benefit from SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare, SQL Source Control, and SQL Prompt so that tool kit seems best for me. A coworker brought up the Idera toolbox set of tools and said they are good as well and have a compare tool. I have never worked with them other than the demo of SQL Doctor. Instead of me downloading their trial and spending hours trying them out I figured I would ask you all which set of tools is better in your opinion. Ideara comes with '25' tools but most of their tools don't seem to do more than things I can get from running a few dmv's. It includes SQL Doctor which is a neat tool, and a backup compression tool but I am sure that is licensed per server so putting it on my workstation won't be of much help. Now the SQL Virtual Database is awesome. Redgate has SQL Virtual Restore but it is not included in their Dev Bundle. Redgate Developer Bundle comes with SQL Compare, Data Compare, SQL Prompt Pro, SQL Data Generator (nice), SQL packager, SQL refractor, SQL Dependancy Tracker, SQL Doc, SQL Multi Script, and SQL Source Control. I still feel for my daily usage the Redgate toolkit will come in handy more for what I need but I want to hear from you all who have been using these tools. Which is better and why?

Scot Hauder
Matt Whitfield
sqlnubi
xypher
BradleySQL
mikelanders
Grant Fritchey
Scotty
mikebaldwin
vatdev
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