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IDERA SQL Admin Toolset vs. SolarWinds SQL Sentry

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IDERA SQL Admin Toolset

    N/AN/ASQL Admin Toolset aims to provide 24 essential desktop tools for Microsoft SQL Server to save time by simplifying routine administrative and troubleshooting tasks. The vendor states users will reduce time spent on daily Microsoft SQL Server administration, easily run daily admin tasks across multiple Microsoft SQL Server instances, simplify migrating, consolidating, and creating Microsoft SQL Server instances, eliminate manual, time-consuming, and error-prone admin tasks, and simplify daily…

    $316

    per user with first year maintenance included

    SolarWinds SQL Sentry

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help data professionals optimize SQL Server database performance in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. SQL Sentry delivers metrics to help users find and fix database performance problems and provides scalability, boasting demonstrated success monitoring 800+ SQL Server instances with one monitoring database. With SQL Sentry, the user can monitor: SQL Server Azure SQL Database SQL Server Analysis…

    $0

    Free

    Pricing
    IDERA SQL Admin ToolsetSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Editions & Modules
    Standard via eCommerce
    $316
    per user with first year maintenance included
    Plan Explorer (SQL Server Query Tuning)
    $0
    Free
    SQL Sentry for Azure SQL Database
    $161
    Per year per database (annual subscription)
    SQL Sentry
    1,450
    Per year per instance (annual subscription)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IDERA SQL Admin ToolsetSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    IDERA SQL Admin ToolsetSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Considered Both Products
    IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    [SolarWinds] SQL Sentry was tested against multiple monitoring systems, but [it] topped them all as [it] was a monitoring tool that was created to pinpoint SQL Server and nothing else. It has features that a lot of other monitoring systems don't have and are not even developing …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IDERA SQL Admin ToolsetSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of IDERA SQL Admin Toolset and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    IDERA SQL Admin Toolset
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    8.4
    102 Ratings
    Performance dashboard00 Ratings9.1102 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting00 Ratings7.996 Ratings
    Top SQL00 Ratings8.6102 Ratings
    Historical trend data00 Ratings8.6100 Ratings
    Virtualization support00 Ratings8.764 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IDERA SQL Admin ToolsetSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (102 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (14 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)