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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    dbForge SQL Tools

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/AThe dbForge SQL Tools package comprises 15 functional add-ins for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and standalone tools. These add-ins integrate with this default IDE, enhancing the standard capabilities by adding new features and improving existing tools with additional options. dbForge SQL Tools cover a wide array of database-related tasks in SQL Server, particularly in the following areas: T-SQL…

    $429.95

    per year

    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASQL Diagnostic Manager for Microsoft SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix Microsoft SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy Microsoft SQL Server and…

    $1,996

    per instance with first year maintenance included

    Pricing
    dbForge SQL ToolsIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Editions & Modules
    Subscription Standart 1 year
    $429.95
    Subscription Professional 1 year
    $649.95
    Subscription Enterprise 1 year
    $699.95
    Perpetual Standard 1 year
    $849.95
    Subscription Standart 2 years
    $859.95
    Perpetual Standard 2 years
    $1,189.95
    Perpetual Professional 2 years
    $1,189.95
    Subscription Standart 3 years
    $1,289.95
    Perpetual Professional 1 year
    $1,299.95
    Subscription Professional 2 years
    $1,299.95
    Subscription Enterprise 2 years
    $1,399.95
    Perpetual Enterprise 1 year
    $1,399.95
    Perpetual Standart 3 years
    $1,449.95
    Subscription Professional 3 years
    $1,949.95
    Perpetual Enterprise 2 years
    $1,999.95
    Subscription Enterprise 3 years
    $2,099.95
    Perpetual Professional 3 years
    $2,209.95
    Perpetual Enterprise 3 years
    $2,519.95
    Standard via eCommerce
    1,996.00
    per instance with first year maintenance included
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    dbForge SQL ToolsIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    dbForge SQL ToolsIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Considered Both Products
    Devart
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    dbForge SQL ToolsIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of dbForge SQL Tools and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Feature
    dbForge SQL Tools
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    Ratings
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Performance dashboard00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Top SQL00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Historical trend data00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Virtualization support00 Ratings5.06 Ratings
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    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    dbForge SQL ToolsIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    dbForge SQL ToolsIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Devart
    dbForge SQL Complete is well suited for professionals that have to write code all day. In my role in the business intelligence department we are writing SQL pretty much all day. Having a tool that helps us do that faster, in a cleaner way is pretty awesome and something that pays for itself quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Idera, Inc.
    SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager is useful for tracking performance across SSIS, SSRS and SSA and have the data represented in dashboards. It helps improve performance and helps end users. However, several features are redundant for smaller organization that can use the tools that comes with existing Microsoft products. These features also takes time to learn and use.
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    Pros
    Devart
    • SQL complete allows you to create custom snippets that allow you to store frequently ran queries in shortcuts. The code can be populated within seconds!
    • Another great benefit is custom aliases. If you frequently reference the same tables over and over again it gets tiresome to retype the aliases. Storing these can make your code more consistent and save time.
    • SQL complete will also highlight the metadata within your database. For example, if you start typing an insert statement you populate code for all the field names by pressing the tab. This is a real-time saver for wide tables!
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    Idera, Inc.
    • SQLdm does a good job of providing information at a high level, but also allows me to drill down to specific queries and events if needed. I don't always need to sift through tons of details to get the information I need. It also gives a very wide range of information from SQL specific metrics, to OS metrics, to VM metrics, all the way up to host server metrics.
    • I like how the alert and notification system can be customized. For example, if you know a certain server regularly has long-running queries, you can adjust the alert to not fire unless a query has been running for 30 minutes while the rest of the servers fire after 30 seconds. That is very helpful in not being bombarded at dinner with alerts from a server similar to, "I've been at 90% cpu for 26 milliseconds!!!!!!!...and now it's back down to 30%" Good information to know, but not something you need to literally lose sleep over.
    • I like how you can configure different servers to be monitored differently. For example, you can have a group of servers called DEVELOPMENT that you can turn on heavier monitoring on so you can test how changes in applications might affect the SQL environment, but in the PRODUCTION group, you may only want to enable the heavier analysis and logging when performance issues are actively being reported.
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    Cons
    Devart
    • Sometimes it can be slow to retrieve the database metadata.
    • Updating the software with the activation/deactivation of licenses could be further streamlined.
    Incentivized
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    Idera, Inc.
    • Windows client has some issues. When you have small time intervals for your data collection, it can cause the client to become unresponsive and require you to restart it.
    • It takes more time to get the web client running than it does to get the windows client running.
    • The visualizations have been the same for the last eight years--could use a little bit of a refresh.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Devart
    I am very satisfied after using this tool. It is a full-stack tool that includes rich features that can be customized set of functionality as per your need. by using this tool:-
    • Increased our productivity rate.
    • Provides speed up your development work so you can focus on other stuff.
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    Idera, Inc.
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL, Redgate SQL, and MonitorLogicMonitor are similar products to each other. We decided on IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL because our experience with locating heavy queries has been very good and it provides real-time monitoring of all servers and databases. It also allows you to have a large volume of historical data which allows you to analyze trends in the databases.
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    Return on Investment
    Devart
    • Spending less time trying to figure out how tables are related thanks to the navigational help in dbForge SQL Complete, which means fixing issues takes less time.
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    Idera, Inc.
    • Allows us to quickly set up ETL processes as soon as we installed SQL Server.
    • There's a lot of free/paid resources available online, decreasing development time.
    • A tool with plenty of experienced developers.
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