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Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager 6.2 Review
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swellguy
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Posted Monday, October 04, 2010 9:15 PM
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Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager 6.2 Review
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Richard M.
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Posted Monday, October 04, 2010 10:23 PM
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Great 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"
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Thomas LaRock
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Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:04 PM
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Brad,
What feature set are you referring to when you say "the only one on the market"?
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swellguy
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Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:10 PM
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Thanks 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.
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Thomas LaRock
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Brad,
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.
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swellguy
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Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:37 PM
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Thomas,
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,
Brad
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tferguson
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Posted Wednesday, October 06, 2010 4:25 PM
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Thanks 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.
Tim
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Appreciate the positive feedback, Tim.
I'm liking the idea of deploying a monitoring tool via Citrix, for developer use. Clever.
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Posted Tuesday, November 16, 2010 6:36 AM
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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?
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Grant Fritchey
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Vertigo44 (11/16/2010)
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?
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.
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