InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comSun, 19 May 2013 06:09:11 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxI appreciate the input on this; The SQL toolspace is crowded, so the more insight, the better.Thanks for reading my article,BradThu, 12 May 2011 16:15:18 GMTswellguyhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxOne other thing I would consider when evaluating a product is whether the reports and other metrics you generate are going to be shared with non-technical people or developers. We chose Ignite simply because folks can easily grasp the waits and see exactly what we are seeing on our end. With a little discussion, we can help determine the root cause and work towards fixing the issue, whether it be the code, storage waits, etc.Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:54:13 GMTTodd Robinsonhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspx[quote][b]Vertigo44 (11/16/2010)[/b][hr]So I am evaluating products for my new job and I am trying to decide between this and TOAD. I'm leaning towards Idera. Does anybody prefer anything over DM?[/quote]We use Idera DM at work. It really does do the job and does it pretty well. There are a few counters that I'd like to change out if I could, but overall, I'm happy with it.That said, I've made the attempt to either replace Idera or add to it with Confio Ignite. While it doesn't cover some of the more traditional monitoring quite as well as Idera, it's a step above on the wait state monitoring & T-SQL performance metrics.Sometimes, it comes down to the style of the tool as much as what it does.Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:09:50 GMTGrant Fritcheyhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxSo I am evaluating products for my new job and I am trying to decide between this and TOAD. I'm leaning towards Idera. Does anybody prefer anything over DM?Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:36:03 GMTVertigo44http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxAppreciate the positive feedback, Tim.I'm liking the idea of deploying a monitoring tool via Citrix, for developer use. Clever.Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:02:25 GMTswellguyhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxThanks for the great article, Brad.We've been using SQLdm for a number of years, we like it a lot. The History Browser is handy, too. And we DBAs were glad when, a few versions back, they added Application Security to it, so that developers can use the tool from our Citrix site to view their environments' activities, etc. TimWed, 06 Oct 2010 16:25:30 GMTtfergusonhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxThomas,No worries! Sure, I'd love to hear more. If anything, it's certainly made it clear to me that wait states need to be a part of the normal operational review cycle.Thanks again,BradTue, 05 Oct 2010 12:37:45 GMTswellguyhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxBrad,Sorry...i forgot my manners...I also thought your article was well written, and I thank you for sharing.As for the wait details, there is another product available that provides those details. If you are interested in doing another review I would love to arrange for you to get a trial version. Just let me know.Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:23:51 GMTThomas LaRockhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxThanks for the kind words!I'm really not any kind of shill for any particular vendor, and was legitimately impressed with the product.Thomas,I was talking about the 'Wait-state' feature set, which I hadn't seen anywhere else before. The products I compared for this were SQL Response and Foglight for SQL Server. I probably should have been more specific, as many of SQLdm's features are available in other products.Thanks again, I appreciate the SS community, and was glad to share some observations.Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:10:05 GMTswellguyhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxBrad,What feature set are you referring to when you say "the only one on the market"?Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:04:13 GMTThomas LaRockhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxGreat review. We have been using SQLdm for quite a while now, focused on our main application and its DB server and it has provided timely and invaluable help when needed. It makes it real easy in most cases to pinpoint the issues, and a quick glance at certain screens can give you a wealth of data that would take quite a few DMV's and time to analyze the results. Now when the system users are experiencing issues we can just say with a quick look, and say "Nope, it's not the database" :-)Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:23:39 GMTRichard M.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic998047-2805-1.aspxComments posted to this topic are about the item [B]<A HREF="/articles/Product+Reviews/71285/">Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager 6.2 Review</A>[/B]Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:15:22 GMTswellguy