IDERA SQL Compliance Manager vs. ApexSQL by Quest

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager

ApexSQL by Quest

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IDERA SQL Compliance Manager	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	SQL Compliance Manager helps database administrators to monitor, audit, and alert on Microsoft SQL Server user activity and data changes. The vendor states it provides quick configuration of audit settings, a broad list of regulatory guideline templates for audit settings and reports, before and after data values for both regulatory compliance and forensic data investigations, differentiation of data access and between regular and privileged users and applications, easy specification of and…	$3,036 per instance with first year maintenance included
ApexSQL by Quest	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	ApexSQL is a software development company headquartered in Chapel Hill, US, and a Quest company. The company specializes in developing professional software tools for Microsoft SQL Server including tools for database auditing, recovery, change management, development, and documentation. ApexSQL is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.	N/A

Pricing

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager

ApexSQL by Quest

Editions & Modules

Standard via eCommerce: 3,036.00
per instance with first year maintenance included

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IDERA SQL Compliance Manager	ApexSQL by Quest
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	IDERA SQL Compliance Manager	ApexSQL by Quest
Considered Both Products	IDERA SQL Compliance Manager MK Muhammad Hassan Khan Database Administrator Chose IDERA SQL Compliance Manager More easy to use, no SQL queries to extract data out of it, graphical user interface is very good and easy to use. Incentivized Helpful?	ApexSQL by Quest Mohammad Anas Application Development Analyst Chose ApexSQL by Quest ApexSQL by Quest provides many toolkits for sql server that stacks up against its alternatives such as Operation toolkit which includes capabilities like disaster recovery, backup and restore etc, DevOps toolkit which include automation, compare and sync toolkit which include … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ApexSQL by Quest It's free to use and it has a lot of unique features like tab navigation, Coloring of tabs, Execution alerts, helps in automatically writing query and the best what I liked in ApexSQL is fast database creating,tables auto fill.i recommend giving the tools a try as i think … Incentivized Helpful? John Ramírez Database Administrator Chose ApexSQL by Quest It is great what offers related to its price. Other tools, seem to be very expensive, and are offering the same as Apex, or less. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ApexSQL by Quest ApexSQL has good tools that were compatible with the current infrastructure of our organization and was a useful supplement to our MS SQL databases and enabled us to automate and do data comparisons and other functions with higher ease. It was mainly selected to be a toolbox … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager

ApexSQL by Quest

Database Administration

Comparison of Database Administration features of Product A and Product B
	IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 7.0 Ratings 18% below category average	ApexSQL by Quest - Ratings
User management	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Database security	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	IDERA SQL Compliance Manager	ApexSQL by Quest
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User Testimonials
	IDERA SQL Compliance Manager	ApexSQL by Quest
Likelihood to Recommend	The payment card industry is best as it has built-in PCI DSS compliant and in a transactional DB where there are a lot of DML activities the size of the database must be increased. Incentivized MK Muhammad Hassan Khan Database Administrator Read full review	As soon as I start developing a new query or script, I just need to type my keywords and then all the basic for my work is already there. Just need to worry for the pesonalization. Also, I can have a template for very different scenarios, also the code suggestions, makes my code review and any error debug easier Incentivized John Ramírez Database Administrator Read full review
Pros	Audit Logins DML Activities DDL Activities Queries Reporting Incentivized MK Muhammad Hassan Khan Database Administrator Read full review	Disaster Recovery of database Management of Agent Jobs in Sql sever Backup and restoration of databases Incentivized Mohammad Anas Application Development Analyst Read full review
Cons	Should have a compression algorithm to compress the audited logs, as it will take a lot of space. Can not audit all the DML and DDL activities as it will take a lot of space, should have a compression algo. Incentivized MK Muhammad Hassan Khan Database Administrator Read full review	Need to improve on optimization sometimes it take too much time during data loading and unloading The IDE comes in web browser.It should develop its own IDE to write code I don't particularly appreciate that there is no way to get all data for any records Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	More easy to use, no SQL queries to extract data out of it, graphical user interface is very good and easy to use. Incentivized MK Muhammad Hassan Khan Database Administrator Read full review	It's free to use and it has a lot of unique features like tab navigation, Coloring of tabs, Execution alerts, helps in automatically writing query and the best what I liked in ApexSQL is fast database creating,tables auto fill.i recommend giving the tools a try as i think you will find them very useful Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Audit reports are a hectic job for a DBA it made them easy. Incentivized MK Muhammad Hassan Khan Database Administrator Read full review	Reduced the time needed to maintain and audit our MS SQL databases Automation reduced the time and effort needed to execute on daily tasks Increased efficiency overall by making data comparisons and other day to day tasks more efficient Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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