We performed a comparison between 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."The ability to go back and look at historical data is the most valuable feature."
"SQL DM made troubleshooting much easier and allowed multiple people to look into an issue with confidence."
"Monitors and alerts on our mission critical instances in real-time on a 24/7 basis."
"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."
"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."
"Memory and CPU utilization features are good."
"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."
"It's easy to implement as it's made by Oracle for Oracle."
"Some of the most valuable features are its real-time performance view/dashboard, metric history, real-time monitoring and alerts, as well as quick access to Oracle's tuning and diagnostic options."
"It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment."
"This solution allows us to quickly drill down when there are issues."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a very user-friendly tool."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager triggers critical alerts."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager was straightforward."
"It is a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for managing database consolidation, something that has been missing and difficult to do."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It would helpful if SQL DM could mark when changes are made within the program."
"They can improve checking the status of the CPU, memory, and IO utilization from each task."
"The solution has a very large resource system. It's too big. There are too many items."
"The deployment is not straightforward."
"The user interface is not very interactive. It needs improvement."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The solution is considered expensive."
"Technical support could be more responsive."
"The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java."
"The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU."
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IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is ranked 9th in Database Development and Management with 1 review while Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 25 reviews. IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is rated 8.0, while Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server writes " Offers effective monitoring of resources but lacks the ability to connect to an AWS instance and write custom queries". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Enable centralized control & administration and cost containment of Oracle products from a single console". IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is most compared with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, Redgate SQL Toolbelt, Quest Spotlight, Quest Foglight for Databases and SQL Sentry, whereas Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, Quest Foglight for Databases and AppDynamics.
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