{"id":19,"date":"2013-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/free-sql-tools"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:50:05","slug":"free-sql-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/27\/free-sql-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Free SQL Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a collection of free tools every DBA should know about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsentry.net\/plan-explorer\/sql-server-query-view.asp\">Plan Explorer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apexsql.com\/free_s\/\">Apex SQL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentozar.com\/blitz\/\">sp_Blitz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentozar.com\/blitzindex\/\">sp_BlitzIndex<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlblog.com\/blogs\/adam_machanic\/archive\/2012\/03\/22\/released-who-is-active-v11-11.aspx\">sp_WhoIsActive<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlfool.com\/2011\/06\/index-defrag-script-v4-1\/\">Index Defrag Script 4.1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/05\/sql-server-2008-r2-diagnostic-information-queries-feb-2013\/\">SQL Server 2008 R2 Diagnostic Information Queries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/08\/sql-server-2012-diagnostic-information-queries-july-2012\/\">SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlmon.codeplex.com\/releases\/view\/101067\">SQL Mon 4.3 alpha 4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/an-xevent-a-day-12-of-31-using-the-extended-events-ssms-addin\/\">Extended Events SSMS Addin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssmstoolspack.com\/\">SSMS Tool Pack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devart.com\/dbforge\/sql\/sqlcomplete\/download.html\">dbForge SQL Complete Express<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a collection of free tools every DBA should know about. Plan Explorer Apex SQL sp_Blitz sp_BlitzIndex sp_WhoIsActive Index Defrag Script 4.1 SQL Server 2008 R2 Diagnostic Information Queries SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries SQL Mon 4.3 alpha 4 Extended Events SSMS Addin SSMS Tool Pack dbForge SQL Complete Express<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}