Why use SQL Lizard

Make SSMS more useful without changing your workflow

SQL Server professionals already spend a large part of the day inside SSMS. SQL Lizard adds more useful capabilities to that environment so more of the work can stay where the data and SQL already are.

1 user
55 hours

saved per year if only 15 minutes are saved per day.

10 users
550 hours

saved per year across the team.

100 users
5,500 hours

saved per year when SQL work is part of daily operations.

Tool switching is a real cost

A common workflow is to run SQL in SSMS, export results, move into Excel or another tool, rebuild the view there, then come back for the next change. That extra movement adds friction, and not every server or enterprise environment even has all secondary tools installed.

SQL Lizard helps reduce that cost by adding richer analysis and presentation capabilities inside SSMS itself.

Use the environment you already rely on

Teams already know SSMS, already trust it, and already have it available. SQL Lizard builds on that reality instead of trying to replace it with a separate application.

The result is a workflow that can be more comfortable, more visual, and often faster, while still staying close to the underlying SQL.

Main benefits

What SQL Lizard improves

  • • result analysis through a more capable data grid
  • • visual analysis through pivot tables, charts, and dashboards
  • • object discovery through improved Object Explorer workflows
  • • SQL quality through format and lint features
  • • practical everyday work through exports, notes, query history, and related helpers

Try it in SSMS

Try SQL Lizard in the workflow you already have

The value is easiest to understand when you use it with your own queries, your own result sets, and your own daily tasks in SSMS.

Free and practical

Use it if it helps, share it if you like it

SQL Lizard for SSMS 22 is free at this stage. We may change licensing or pricing later if that becomes necessary to support continued development, but the current release is provided free of charge.

Our software has been used by hundreds of thousands of users over many years. More users, more sharing, and more feedback help shape what comes next.

Transparent expectations

  • • No product telemetry, usage statistics, SQL queries, result data, connection information, or database content collection.
  • • If you send us emails, screenshots, logs, SQL, or other files, you are responsible for what you include.
  • • We do not need or want private, sensitive, or production data in feedback.
  • • No guaranteed support, SLA, custom onboarding, or special configuration work.
  • • Ideas and bug reports are welcome, but responses and fixes are best-effort.