NEWS & PRESS RELEASES

Nov. 18th 2008: JNetDirect and SQL Farms are sponsoring and exhibiting at SQL PASS 2008, the leading conference for database administrators and professionals in Seattle, WA. To see a demo of SQL Farms' technology, please visit the JNetDirect booth 406.

Nov. 10th 2008: JNetDirect and SQL Farms are sponsoring and exhibiting at DevConnections (Nov. 10-13, 2008), the premier conference and expo for Microsoft developers and DBAs. For additional information, please visit the JNetDirect booth 613.

May 21st 2008: JNetDirect and SQL Farms to exhibit in SOA World 2008. The 13th international conference and expo will be held in New York city on June 23-24, 2008.

Apr. 20th 2008: JNetDirect and SQL Farms are sponsoring and exhibiting at the DevConnection 2008 spring conference, at the SQL Server show. Please stop by JNetDirect's booth number 403 to learn more and receive a free demo of SQL Farm Combine™.

Apr. 15th 2008: SQL Farms, Inc. adds over 80 leading software resellers and distributors, in 49 countries, to expand its software sales and marketing initiatives. To find a reseller in your country or to learn more, please visit the company's sales and pricing information at http://www.sqlfarms.com/sales.aspx.

Apr. 1st 2008: JNetDirect, a leading vendor of enterprise software solutions is presenting SQL Farms' flagship product, SQL Farm Combine™, at the FOSE 2008 show, the largest exhibition and tradeshow for government technology and business solutions. To learn more or to receive information about SQL Farm Combine™, please visit JNetDirect at booth number 1216.

Feb. 5th 2008: SQL Farms releases SQL Farm Combine™ 3.0, a major new release that is focused on recording database changes for auditing and tracking purposes. New features in SQL Farm Combine 3.0 enable users to view and search past deployment results, record database changes, extract previous deployments and outcome, and meet requirements dictated by auditors and common regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, Basel II, and others. To receive an evaluation copy of SQL Farm Combine 3.0, please visit http://www.sqlfarms.com/evaluation.aspx.

Jan. 22nd 2008: Aldon, the leading provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions announces a strategic technology partnership with SQL Farms to deliver process-driven change management to database administrators (DBAs) and developers that will simplify code development and deployment across multiple databases, applications and IT environments. Read the complete press release.

Nov. 19th 2007: SQL Farm Combine™ 2.1 is released and includes enhancements that were urgently requested by customers. New features include system variables that enable users to embed system parameters in SQL code that are replaced in runtime during code deployment, updates to package results and cre output files, as well as changes to the CpaBuild command line utility.

Oct. 30th 2007: SQL Farms releases SQL Farm Combine™ 2.0 with focus on scheduling, scheduled deployment tasks and packages, as well as support for Aldon Lifecycle Manager (LM) as the source code control provider. Key features of the new release include the ability to schedule deployments, code packages, as well as manage scheduled in a comprehensive manner within the application.

Oct. 20th 2007: Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro has announced that SQL Farms, Inc. and SQL Farm Combine were named as finalists for the magazine’s "Best of Connections 2007 Awards" in the Database Management category. "This is our first year for the Best of Connections program and we were extremely pleased with the more than 60 entries received. After technical evaluation of all nominated products, we chose 18 finalists, based on strategic importance to the market, competitive advantages and value to the customer," said Michael Otey, technical director for Windows IT Pro.

Oct. 5th 2007: SQL Farms closes Q3 2007 with a flurry of new customers, including a fortune 500 retailer, a large data center in the realty and eCommerce industry, as well as additional healthcare and insurance companies.

Sep. 24th 2007: Shawmut, a $800M design and construction company chooses SQL Farm Combine™ to automate database changes and deployments, and move database code between Development, QA, and Production.

Aug. 31st 2007: SQL Farms releases new technology to help virtualization providers and system integrators collect performance metrics and data from remote SQL Server environments, without any remote installations or SQL server registration. As part of the new offering, SQL Farms has launched a new partnership program for virtualization providers, to assist their customers with common problems in remote data centers. The new technology is based on SQL Farms' distributed query (patent-pending) technology, and is available as redistributable components of SQL Farm Combine™ 1.9. The full press coverage is available here.

Aug. 23rd 2007: SQL Farms releases SQL Farm Combine™ 1.9 to help virtualization providers and software vendors collect data and deploy database projects in remote data centers and SQL Server environments without remote installations. The main focus of SQL Farm Combine 1.9 is the offering of new redistributable components and licensing. Additional enhancements include smarter data aggregation and improvements to project deployments. Using the new redistributable features, virtualization providers can run queries to collect performance metrics and custom data from remote customer sites without any installations. Similarly, software vendors can now easily package database code and deploy it against databases and servers on customer sites. Free evaluation of SQL Farm Combine™ 1.9 is available at http://www.sqlfarms.com/Evaluation.aspx.

Aug. 6th 2007: The Supreme Court of Oklahoma chooses SQL Farm Combine™, SQL Farms' flagship product to automate deployment of database changes and deploy database project releases in a highly secure IT environment.

Aug. 3rd, 2007: SQL Farms, Inc. Welcomes Former Microsoft M&A Executives to its Management Board. SQL Farms announced earlier today an investment partnership with DeParis Redinger, a progressive technology-focused boutique investment bank led by former Microsoft M&A executives. Under the terms of the partnership, two managing directors at DeParis Redinger, Mr. Kyle Redinger and Mr. Francesco DeParis will hold key positions on SQL Farms' management board to assist and lead the company through its ongoing growth. Additional details regarding the partnership were not provided by either side and remain undisclosed at this time. The full press release is available here.

Jun. 26th 2007: Florida Employment Commission and Geographic Solutions, Inc. choose SQL Farm Combine™ to automate database administration, changes and deployments in a large SQL-Server based data farm.

Jul. 23rd 2007: SQL Farms, Inc. releases SQL Farm Combine™ 1.8. The main focus of version 1.8 included performance and speed optimization, support for SQL services, significant Intellisense enhancements, as well as UI features that were requested by users and customers. With the new features SQL Farm Combine™ now offers the best intellisense features for SQL Server among all popular editors, as well as allows users to stop or start SQL services on all SQL servers and instances on the network in one click. Free evaluation of SQL Farm Combine™ 1.8 is available at http://www.sqlfarms.com/Evaluation.aspx. The full press release is available here.

Jun. 26th 2007: A leading healthcare information systems provider, Sansio Healthcare Solutions, selects SQL Farm Combine™ to automate the change management processes and deploy database projects between disconnected and secure environments.

Jun. 12th 2007: Stephen Wynkop, Founder and CEO of SQL Server World Wide User Group calls SQL Farm Combine™ a powerful tool to help work with many SQL Servers. Full coverage is available on the SSWUG.org website here.

May 28th 2007: Democracy Data and Communications, a leading provider for enterprise and federal IT solutions, selects SQL Farm Combine™ to automate deployments of database code and project releases.

May 23rd 2007: SQL Farms, Inc. releases SQL Farm Combine 1.7 to fulfill urgent customers and users requests. New features include enhanced command line options and code review simplifications. The new release also includes sample SQL server monitoring projects that allow users to monitor SQL Server jobs across all servers as well as database files size for all databases and SQL servers. The full press release is available here.

May 3rd 2007: SQL Farms releases auto-data collection from many servers with automatic saving to central databases for monitoring, reporting, and data aggregation purposes, as part of SQL Farm Combine™ 1.6. The new version includes many new features and enhancements with the primary focus of allowing users to retrieve data from multiple servers or publish data to many servers with one SELECT statement.

May 2nd 2007: Need to scale out without losing the data? SQL Server Worldwide Users Group (www.sswug.org) provides coverage on SQL Farm Combine™ and calls it a leading scale-out management tool. Full editorial coverage is available here.

May 1st 2007: SQL Farms releases a one-click solution to synchronize passwords on many SQL servers in parallel. The new SQL password synchronization is available as a free plug-in for current and future SQL Farm Combine™ users and customers. The new add-on is extremely useful to sync user and admin passwords on many SQL Servers across the enterprise within a few seconds, to meet common auditing and compliance requirements.

Apr. 13th 2007: SQL Farms announces an end-to-end SQL server configuration management solution that allows DBAs to easily manage, synchronize, change, update, and compare SQL server configuration across many SQL Servers, and configure multipe servers in a single click. The enterprise server configuration management suit is a free add-on to SQL Farm Combine customers, and is available for download on SQL Farms' website. A full press release is available here.

Apr. 6th 2007: A leading publically traded multi-national insurance corporation selects SQL Farm Combine to deploy changes to all operations throughout their international datacenters and operational facilities.

Apr. 4th 2007: SQL Server Worldwide User Group recommends SQL Farm Combine™ to manage many SQL servers and databases: Manage configurations, synchronize passwords, and project deployments and change management. Full coverage is available on the SSWUG.org website here.

Mar. 23rd 2007: SQL Farms, Inc. releases SQL Farm Combine 1.5.1 and introduces new features for building code packages. Release 1.5.1, as well as several upcoming releases, is dedicated to requests from users and customers. To obtain a copy of SQL Farm Combine, please register here.

Mar. 15th 2007: One of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States chooses SQL Farm Combine to manage all SQL Servers in their corporate datacenter and automate the lifecycle and releases of database projects.

Mar. 8th 2007: SQL Farms, Inc. releases SQL Farm Combine 1.5 to include features requested by users and customers. Key additions include a complete due diligence and documentation for Team Foundation Server (TFS), enhanced collaboration capabilities, as well as automated code creation features. To download the new version of SQL Farm Combine, please register for evaluation here.

Feb. 25th, 2007: SQL Farms, Inc. announces a new program for Microsoft SQL Server MVPs. Details of the program and offerings can be found here.

Jan. 27th, 2007: SQL Farms, Inc. and FJH Sistemas de Informação Ltda. sign a reseller and software distribution agreement. Based in San-Paolo, FJH Information Systems will market and resell SQL Farm Combine to enterprises in Brazil, and will continue to develop SQL Farms' business and growth in South America.

Jan 1st, 2007: SQL Farms, Inc. releases SQL Farm Combine 1.4 and introduces new features to collect data from many databases and servers, as well as ease the deployment and transfer of code between SQL Server environments.

December 14th, 2006: SQL Farms, Inc. announces new partnerships with Microsoft and Perforce Software. As one of the best tools for SQL server, SQL Farm Combine™ has granted SQL Farms, Inc. a business partnership with Microsoft at the Software Solution competency, and a technology partnership with Perforce to allow developers and DBAs using Perforce to collaborate, develop projects, and deploy database releases in their SQL Server environments.

December 8th, 2006: SQL Farms Combine™, a leading SQL development, deployment, and editor tool for SQL Server environments, achieves compliance and integration certification from Perforce Software and SourceGear (Vault).

November 13th, 2006: SQL Farms, Inc. releases SQL Farm Combine™ 1.3, the first of a kind integrated lifecycle environment (ILE) that offers highly advanced development, change management, and code deployment features for database developers and DBAs. SQL Farm Combine™ has been in Beta for over a year and has been used by enterprises with 5 to 270 SQL servers to develop and deploy database projects, scripts, and queries on all production databases and servers, as well as automate the Developmet - QA - Production lifecycle of database code releases.

October 5th, 2006: SQL Farms, Inc. is sponsoring SQL PASS 2006 the annual community summit of the Professional Association of SQL Server. The SQL PASS 2006 conference will take place between 11/14 and 11/17, in Seattle, WA. For more information or to attend a live demo of SQL Farm Combine™, please stop by our booth.

September 18th, 2006: SQL Farms, Inc. welcomes Ron D. Wright to its board of directors.

August 31st, 2006: SQL Farms, Inc. releases version 1.2 (Beta 2) of SQL Farm Combine™ and announces October 2006 as a final release date for version 1.3. For additional information regarding SQL Farm Combine™, please email us at sales@sqlfarms.com, or visit our booth at the SQL PASS 2006 Community Summit or at VERIFY 2006.

August 1st, 2006: SQL Farms, Inc. signs a key software license and distribution agreement with JNetDirect, the seller of top quality enterprise software solutions and manufacturer of the JSQL (Java to SQL server) driver. With this collaboration, JNetDirect will deliver SQL Farms' development, change management, code deployment, and Dev-QA-Production process automation solutions to over 3500 enterprise customers.

July 1st, 2006: SQL Farms, Inc. launches a university program for SQL server based grid-computing research initiatives. To obtain details regarding the grid-computing university program, please contact SQL Farms at grid@sqlfarms.com.

May 24th, 2006: SQL Farms software experts will be presenting at Microsoft's Mid-Atlantic Code Camp, teaching best development and deployment practices for SQL server 2000 and 2005, and demonstrating new cutting-edge technologies for SQL server farms. The Mid-Atlantic Code Camp is scheduled for June 10th, at Microsoft's technology center in Reston, VA. Details regarding the Mid-Atlantic Code Camp can be found here.

May 17th, 2006: InfoWorld magazine provides a progress update regarding the features and development status of SQL Farm Combine. The full article, which appeared under InfoWorld's prestigious Database Undergound blog, is available here.

May 10th, 2006: SQL Farms, Inc. appoints Mr. David E. Zerbee, Esq. as General Executive Counsel. With more than 25 years of legal and business management experience, and after serving as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at a number of leading IT companies, Mr. Zerbee provides a firm foundation to counsel SQL Farms in its continued growth.

March 15th, 2006: SQL Farms software experts will be presenting and demonstrating SQL Farm Combine^TM 1.0 at Microsoft's code camp in Richmond, VA. Details regarding the Richmond Code Camp, which will take place on April 22nd 2006, are available here.

February 8th, 2006: SQL Farms, Inc. is sponsoring , an international software testing conference focused on database testing, security testing, automated testing, and general testing concerns. Keynote presentation as well as database testing tracks at VERIFY 2006 will be given by SQL Farms software experts. For additional information, please visit the VERIFY 2006 conference home page.

January 2nd, 2006: InfoWorld magazine provides coverage of leading database companies and calls SQL Farm Combine "a revolutionary new SQL editor". Full article is available here.

November 10th, 2005: SQL Farms, Inc. released SQL Farm Combine 1.1 (Beta 1), a code development, packaging, and distribted deployment tool for SQL 7, 2000, and 2005, which allows users to run scripts, packages, and queries on multiple databases and servers in parallel. SQL Farm Combine automates the Development-QA-Production change management and code release process as it allows users to easily pass packages between different environments while guaranteeing fast package deployment on any number of databases and servers. Please refer to our Products page for additional information.

September 15th, 2005: Sean McCown, database expert and contributing editor to InfoWorld magazine, and a columnist and contributor to SQLServerCentral.com, SSWUG.org, SQL Server Magazine, and the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS), has joined the technical advisory board of SQL Farms, Inc.
Mr. McCown brings with him over ten years of expertise in database market analysis, database administration, and database development. The addition of Mr. McCown to SQL Farm, Inc. is yet another step to ensure that the tools offered by SQL Farms, Inc. are geared towards satisfying requirements dictated by key industry database administrators and developers, both in upcoming and future releases.

August 25th, 2005: Following our success at the Northern Virginia SQL user group, and the pre-beta presentation of the SQL Farm Combine ^TM, SQL Farms will provide additional SQL and .Net user groups presentations at the following dates and locations:
09/22/2005 - Hampton Roads SQL user group
09/29/2005 - Richmond .Net user group
12/07/2005 - Baltimore SQL user group
01/10/2006 - Southern VA .Net user group

June 14th, 2005: SQL Farms, Inc. launches the SQL Education Center^TM, a free on-line SQL expert advice and custom scripting service. The purpose of the SQL Education Center^TM is to allow SQL users all around the world to communicate with our experts, request and download SQL scripts, and browse a broad knowledgebase that includes a wide variety of SQL server articles, white papers, and more. To visit the education center, please log onto http://education.sqlfarms.com

May 3rd, 2005: SQL Farms, Inc. will announce the availability of the SQL Farm Combine ^TM, a revolutionary database tool for DB programmers, testers, and database administrators, on August 22nd 2005 at the August session of the Northern Virginia SQL Server User Group (NOVASQL). SQL users who wish to test and evaluate the SQL Farm Combine ^TM  are encouraged to participate in our Beta program, which will commence on August 1st 2005. For additional technical details or to join the Beta program please contact us at support@sqlfarms.com.