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IDERA SQL Doctor

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SQL Sentry

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66% willing to recommend
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Database Development and Management
April 2024
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Menoj Roekalea
By capturing performance issues when they happen, we do not miss crucial data
We have instructed our service desk to start capturing with SQL Doctor when performance issues are being called in. Therefore, we do not miss the... Read more →
Steve McCubbin
Lets you know when your jobs are taking longer than average and allows you to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times
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"You can have multiple scans archived when comparing the tracing from a baseline perspective. Two scans can give us insights concerning the difference between a good and a bad situation."

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"To be able to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times is the most valuable feature of the product.""This solution has identified blocking, deadlock, memory pressure, and high CPU consumption issues."

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Cons
"SQL Doctor should be improved in Availability Groups, mirroring, and clustering analyses. We mostly see index and query plan analyses. It should be broader than this."

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"There could be some more metrics on the high availability to let us know when there are issues synchronizing between the hosts.""If we can get details on wait types from system views, it will help identify a more detailed root cause."

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    What do you like most about SQL Sentry?
    Top Answer:To be able to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times is the most valuable feature of the product.
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SQL Sentry?
    Top Answer:It's fairly expensive.
    What needs improvement with SQL Sentry?
    Top Answer:There could be some more metrics on the high availability to let us know when there are issues synchronizing between the hosts.
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    47th
    out of 62 in Database Development and Management
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    83
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    8th
    out of 62 in Database Development and Management
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    1,157
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    954
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    1
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    378
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    9.0
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    Overview

    SQL Doctor helps database administrators to tune SQL Server performance, security, and disaster recovery via expert recommendations in physical, virtual, and cloud environments - including managed cloud databases. Unlike its competitors, it provides display health of all SQL Servers, generation of ready-to-run SQL scripts to optimize and undo optimization, limiting of analysis to specified databases, applications, and performance categories, and real-time, as-needed, and scheduled checkups.

    SentryOne is the most capable, scalable platform for enterprise data performance management, from development through production. We empower Microsoft database professionals with the best solutions for developing, testing, documenting, and monitoring the Microsoft Data Platform.
    Sample Customers
    Lake IT; ArcelorMittal; Canadian Natural Resources; Capital One Financial; Comcast; Dollar General; Pfizer Inc.; SCANA; Tata Consultancy Services; United Technologies; Xerox; Boostability; Daycoval; Exelon Corporation; Methodist Hospitals of Dallas Inc.; A-Tex A/S; University of California, Irvine; American Career College; Region Hovedstaden; Wunderman; Johannesburg Stock Exchange; Almacenes Vidri, S.A. de C.V.; Indiana Weslyan University; Mizuho Securities; Isala Klinieken; National Metrology Institute of SA; Raja; KMD AS; Advantage Solutions; infusystem; Portafolio de Negocios S.A. de C.V. - DG; Liaison International; Novaccent; National Council of State Boards of Nursing; Applied Innovations; St. Helen & Knowsley NHS Trust; Xtra Lease LLC; Catharina Ziekenhuis; HF; Florida Housing Finance Corporation; Fiserv, Inc.; West Bend Mutual Insurance Company; CITY OF ST JOHNS; Government Employees Insurance Company; Arbella Insurance Group; Quarto Group Software Systems Inc.; City of Sioux Falls
    Coeo, Stack Overflow, GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation, Hawaiian Airlines, Hennepin County Medical Center, Racing Victoria, Citrix, Insight, Shi, Woodforest National Bank, Telular
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    Small Business18%
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    Large Enterprise69%
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    IDERA SQL Doctor is ranked 47th in Database Development and Management while SQL Sentry is ranked 8th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. IDERA SQL Doctor is rated 8.0, while SQL Sentry is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IDERA SQL Doctor writes "By capturing performance issues when they happen, we do not miss crucial data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Sentry writes "Lets you know when your jobs are taking longer than average and allows you to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times". IDERA SQL Doctor is most compared with , whereas SQL Sentry is most compared with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, Quest Spotlight, Redgate SQL Toolbelt and Quest Foglight for Databases.

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