(Ja************@gensler.com) writes:
Does anyone happen to know if the folks at Red-Gate used a public SDK
to create the log explorer, or did they fork over money to microsoft to
get a ISV licensed SDK?
I guess that you should ask Red Gate about that. :-)
I'm looking into making a similar product that would be open source,
and I'm trying to figure out what they used to translate entries in the
log to something that is readable by the human eye.
The legend is that when Lumigent first developer their Log Explorer -
which was the first product of this kind - their lead developer spent
about a year to reverse-engineer the transaction log.
In the end, though, I think the money is irrelevant. Reverse Engineering
is probably a license violation, but Lumigent got away with it since it
was a valuable product.
Today, you can probably get the specs, with or without money, but I
can almost promise with an NDA. And without knowing, it seems like a
good bet that the NDA precludes an open source solution.
--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP,
es****@sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...ads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinf...ons/books.mspx 
