December 16, 2014 at 11:13 am
Which company's have the best SQL Administrator tools? RedGate, SolarWinds DPA or Idera ?
December 16, 2014 at 12:02 pm
There is some crossover between products across those companies, but also you should note that each company also offers some unique tools not offered by the others. Be sure what you need before you evaluate just based on a given organization's offerings.
Unfortunately, my point of view is more than a little biased, so I won't comment beyond this point.
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December 16, 2014 at 12:42 pm
As Grant said, find out what you need to monitor. Then when you have a 14 day trail you know what to test. By the way if you get to the end of your 14 days but have not decided, call the company and they my extend your trial.
December 16, 2014 at 3:25 pm
don't forget, it's not just monitoring. There are backup products, deployment, source control, compare, all sorts of tools. Be sure you explore the full offering and, again, understand what it is you need.
Also, just a suggestion, if all you're looking at is monitoring tools, you should add SQL Sentry [/url]to that list.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
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SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
December 30, 2014 at 6:20 pm
Heh... at best, all of those tools are only second best to the most important administrative tool of them all... the brain of the DBA. 😉
--Jeff Moden
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