We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Admin Toolset, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, and Oracle Enterprise Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."This product allows for much easier cross server monitoring and administration."
"SQL Server Configuration: This allows admins to compare and edit server configurations for one or more SQL servers saving a lot of time when managing large numbers of instances."
"The best part of SQL DM is the ability to customize alerts and counters. This allows our team to find an issue then alert on the issue at a granular level."
"We're able to diagnose issues prior to their actually becoming issues. Without the alerting, we wouldn't have a clue as to what was going to happen. With the alerting, it gives us a heads-up that a specific threshold has been met, and we need to take specific action."
"Monitors and alerts on our mission critical instances in real-time on a 24/7 basis."
"The most valuable features are disk space projections for planning, and also the Snapshotting ability, to look back in time, to see what was going on the server at a particular time. It's basically the output of an sp_who2."
"SQL DM made troubleshooting much easier and allowed multiple people to look into an issue with confidence."
"Memory and CPU utilization features are good."
"The ability to go back and look at historical data is the most valuable feature."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager is a scalable solution."
"The tried and tested services that Oracle provides is second to none."
"It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment."
"SQL Tuning Advisor, ADDM, Top Activity, ASM Space Manager, Incident Notifications"
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The job subsystem, monitoring subsystem, alerting, grouping of targets, and reporting features are valuable to us."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager helps to control servers."
"There are a number of different user interfaces you can choose from."
"A set of T-SQL admin snippets might be useful, e.g., code to create users, databases, indexes, etc. It would definitely be welcomed in the bundle."
"We don't find that it helps us with performance monitoring and diagnostics. We find that SentryOne does that better. Also, in terms of alerts, we had to customize them dramatically so that we didn't get alerted on every little thing."
"They can improve checking the status of the CPU, memory, and IO utilization from each task."
"I would absolutely love to create customized dashboards but, unfortunately, they don't provide me the information that I need to create the report. The report I need is the detail or the transaction detail that's happening on those Snapshots. I'd like to be able to go back through time and search for things. I don't have that functionality, which is very disappointing. That's pretty bad and frustrating because I could query it and find out so much information about what's hitting my environment and when, but instead, they want control over it and to not give me that information. So it's encrypted. I can't pull it out and that is really bothersome."
"It would helpful if SQL DM could mark when changes are made within the program."
"One thing I'd like to see is the ability to view the execution plan and have the system automatically recommend potential query optimizations, especially at the query level."
"The initial setup gives too many user rights to the server, so you have to put a user that is part administrator's group - that's the preferred way - on each server, which is kind of a risk. You want to do least privilege and you're not doing that."
"I'm going to do an upgrade which may resolve my issues, but one area for improvement is its ability to handle the amount of data that we collect with it. We're likely one of the largest installations, with over 300 servers being collected with this product, and sometimes there are gaps. That would really be my only concern, in terms of how the data is collected and stored, for consistency."
"They should improve the hover text context. This would provide assistance whenever a task is attempted by a DBA."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Reporting and statistical charting is largely still left up the end-user to develop custom solutions."
"There's a lot of documentation to go through as a new user."
"Patching. It's extremely difficult to determine what requires patching and the process to patch each component is slightly different."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager six out of 10 for affordability. It's expensive."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics."
"We would like to have a single dashboard for monitoring and controlling all of our products."
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