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 Woodler SMT | Score8.9 out of 10 | Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees) | SQL Server Monitoring & Performance Tuning tool designed by in-the-field performance tuners for administrators, developers, and tuners Data-driven root cause analysis ideal for root cause analysis (RCA) Interpretation of collected data with advanced descriptions and sharing options. Offers a high-level overview and deep internal metrics allowing the resolution of the toughest challenges. Recommended to use it during the deep-dive tuning… | N/A |
 SolarWinds SQL Sentry | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | SolarWinds 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 |
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| Additional Details | There are two options- partner license and tuning license, where there are minimum service length limits. For a tuning version there is 1 manday to be used as a free consultancy per month. The price of tunining license is approx. 840 USD (700 Euro)/month. The minimum service length is 3 month for Woodler tuning licence and 12 month for partner license. Partner license has the monitoring tool and other consultancy is done as an payable option. The price of partners license is 305 USD aprox. ( 250 eur)/month. One manday for free is included in the package. There is a discount for more servers: from 11 license to 20 there is unit price aprox. 240 USD (200 eur) /month and one manday free consultancy is included in the package. For more then 20 partners license the price is 180 USD (150 eur)/Month per license. In the price of more then 20 partners license there is 2 manday free consultancy included in the price. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | Chose Woodler SMT Used years ago for just specific tasks, no more experience. It is not needed when you have SMT. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Woodler SMT Woodler SMT has been developed to provide a very deep focus on SQL Server performance tuning and troubleshooting. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Woodler SMT We like Woodler SMT because we can benefit from Woodler Support team to connect to our servers and help us with different issues. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info | No answer on this topic |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.9 | 8.6 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.8 |
| Usability | - | 9.0 |
| Availability | - | 7.1 |
| Performance | - | 7.1 |
| Support Rating | - | 7.5 |
| In-Person Training | - | 8.0 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.8 |
| Configurability | - | 7.9 |
| Ease of integration | - | 5.0 |
| Product Scalability | - | 7.0 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 8.5 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 8.5 |
