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 Spotlight | Score7 out of 10 | N/A | Spotlight from Quest Software is a database performance monitoring option. | 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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| Considered Both Products | | Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry seemed to answer these scenarios better than competitors: 1."Death by a thousand cuts" - an execution plan now takes 1.2 seconds that used to take .2 seconds to run. The underlying query is run thousands of times per hour and the load on the server has more than … 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. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I was searching for a lot of tools that have more functionality like monitoring the historical queries and other stuff. In face I came to know most of the tools. Monitoring SQL Server, is one is the best. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf 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 SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry is more powerful and simpler to use than those products. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf 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 SolarWinds SQL Sentry PA has the lightest monitoring footprint of any of the other third-party applications out there. The featureset of PA includes things such as virtualization monitoring, top SQL statements, and granular historical trending that other products miss or gloss over. The sheer amount … Independently Invited by TrustRadius 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 SolarWinds SQL Sentry The sheer amount of information, ability to tune almost all areas of alerting and thresholds, and the low impact of monitoring as well as transparency into how their monitoring processes may impact performance gives them the advantage over these others. In some cases their … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf 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. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry We went with demo and applicability and SQL Sentry was chosen based on our needs and reviews. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf 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. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 | 8.6 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.8 |
| Usability | 8.0 | 9.0 |
| Availability | - | 7.1 |
| Performance | - | 7.1 |
| Support Rating | 8.8 | 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 |
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