SolarWinds SQL Sentry vs. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 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 |
 SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for managing any SQL infrastructure, from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database. SSMS provides tools to configure, monitor, and administer instances of SQL Server and databases. SSMS is used to deploy, monitor, and upgrade the data-tier components used by applications, and to build queries and scripts. SSMS can also be used to query, design, and manage databases and data warehouses on a local… | $0 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.6 | 7.0 |
| 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 | - |