We performed a comparison between IDERA ER/Studio and Redgate SQL Toolbelt based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The data modeling and reverse engineering features are most important to us."
"The most important features are logical and physical models that we can compare and develop. Also, the Data Dictionary can be created out of your studio. Finally, database schemas help understand the logic that's behind the scene, behind the SQL tables. Especially when there are a lot of them, the schemas help everyone understand the business processes."
"We can track changes to our data models and tie those changes back to specific tasks or efforts that we identify."
"We use the solution to create data models which describe our company's data architecture"
"The data modeling module is important to me because I am a database developer and designer... It's very fast, reliable, up-to-date, so easy to use, smooth."
"The interface is really simple to use and it allows me to pick and choose which tables I want to reverse engineer."
"Straightforward setup."
"Developing new dimensional models; for the data we're hosting, dimensional modeling is more useful."
"The most valuable feature is SQL Search."
"It is easy to track the reports, this is what is most valuable for me."
"The model diagram because very clumsy when you save it on the team server and the models are very big."
"The visual presentation is a little too colorful and seems that it is dumbed down."
"We did have a big issue when we upgraded to the 2016 version. The Team Server portion never did quite install correctly, and/or the database was corrupted, and we never figured it out."
"The solution could be sped up, as it is a little slow (e.g., when it's doing its database compare)."
"I'd like the ability to debug the errors ourselves instead of having to call them. There are certain types of errors that, I wouldn't say they come up regularly, but when you have an error it is very often the same type of error. Knowing that it's a Type III or Type I, it would be nice to have some kind of debugging facility for us to use to find out where the problem that threw that error occurs. That would be a really cool feature."
"Tech support is a sticking point with me. I am really disappointed in the tech support. We pay for the Platinum level. It takes hours to get a response."
"The number of options can be overwhelming at times. That is not necessarily a bad thing but for a newbie, it can be daunting."
"when there are some links to the external databases, if this database is not structured it is not uploaded. It gives me errors and I cannot see the view that was created on this structure and I cannot change those views, even manually. It skips the views. I have to ignore those views. I cannot re-upload them because it gives me an error."
"The biggest problem with the Redgate SQL Toolbelt is just how heavy it is; it seems to take a lot of resources."
"I would like to see the bandwidth increase allowing me to easily analyze more data."
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IDERA ER/Studio is ranked 14th in Database Development and Management with 34 reviews while Redgate SQL Toolbelt is ranked 8th in Database Development and Management. IDERA ER/Studio is rated 8.4, while Redgate SQL Toolbelt is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IDERA ER/Studio writes "The solution has important reverse engineering features, but it needs a single sign-on feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Redgate SQL Toolbelt writes "SQL Search and change automation functionality help us manage our code repository and databases". IDERA ER/Studio is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, SAP PowerDesigner, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Toad Data Modeler and Komprise, whereas Redgate SQL Toolbelt is most compared with Quest Spotlight, DBmaestro Database Source Control, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and SQL Sentry. See our IDERA ER/Studio vs. Redgate SQL Toolbelt report.
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