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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ER/Studio

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AER/Studio is a database development and management tool from Embarcadero Technologies (acquired by Idera) in California.

    $2,687

    per year per user

    MssqlMerge

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMssqlMerge is a diff and merge GUI tool for Microsoft SQL Server databases used to compare and sync both schema and data changes. The application has tabbed UI, there are several types of tabs responsible for particular application features and scope of tasks. The starting point is a Home tab - it is used to open databases and show summary about database schema and programming objects changes: table definitions, views, stored procedures and so on. From here, users can drill-down details…

    $95

    one-time fee per user

    Pricing
    ER/StudioMssqlMerge
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $2,687
    per year per user
    Professional
    $3,693
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    Custom
    per year per user
    Free
    $0
    Standard (personal license)
    $95
    one-time fee per user
    Standard (multi-user license)
    120 ~ 75
    one-time fee per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ER/StudioMssqlMerge
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing for new customers only, first year maintenance included. Maintenance includes access to technical support and product updates for the defined period of the agreement.Multi-user license price depends on the number of licensed users. Starting from 5-user license client is getting benefits comparing to a purchase of individual license for each employee.
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    User Ratings
    ER/StudioMssqlMerge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
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    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    ER/StudioMssqlMerge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Idera, Inc.
    Data Architect is well suited at organizations of all sizes. It is never too early or unnecessary to enforce proper modelling and design standards on data solutions, and this tool will help that greatly by providing an industry leading data modelling tool, ability to import ETL mappings for data lineage, enforcing and managing naming conventions through the naming convention tool, and publishing of data dictionaries through the report publisher. I was successfully able to build models, provide traceability, and document source to target with lineage throughout for both the business (by providing business definitions in the descriptions), and technical teams (by documenting ETL instructions in text fields) along with field level mapping (by creating "Attachments" representing data sources, tables, and fields) providing easy search capabilities using business friendly terms
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    KS DB Merge Tools
    personally I work with different types of databases and based on project requirements I have to create multiple databases like in dev qa and prod.here MssqlMerge help me lot when it comes to work with multiple databases.also it help me search querry easily.
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    Pros
    Idera, Inc.
    • ER/Studio has the ability to provide consistent field names and data types through domains, which are templates. This provides a way to have consistent naming of common fields, like CreatedBy and the data types for the fields. They also have the ability to change all the fields that use that domain to a different data type.
    • ER/Studio provides the ability to create custom macros. These macros can be used to apply everything from standard fields based on domains to naming all constraints and indexes. I've also used a macro that comes with ER/Studio to spell check field and table names.
    • My favorite feature is the ability to compare your data model to databases for deployments of changes, and to other data models.
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    KS DB Merge Tools
    • bulk data Marge
    • efficient and speedy search
    • easy to add multiple databases
    • variety of features
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    Cons
    Idera, Inc.
    • ER\Studio licensing can be cumbersome and upgrading from one version to another usually takes several phone calls and emails to the licensing group to get the update installed and running.
    • The repository can be slow when the model count gets larger. By large I mean 20 to 30 models.
    • A nice feature that I would like to see is table comments be displayed on the model along with the attributes. Currently you have to choose between the two.
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    KS DB Merge Tools
    • intra compatibility
    • Merge in-between different types databases
    • enhance features
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    Support Rating
    Idera, Inc.
    I can call or email support and both get quick turn around. The only issue is they are on the west coast (US) and have a west coast work schedule and I'm on the East coast.
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    Idera, Inc.
    ER/Studio is the most mature, reach in features and quality and therefore useful. Unfortunately, it lacks compatibility with AWS Redshift.
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    KS DB Merge Tools
    in my current project we have mssql database hosted in cloud and onprem both and I used MssqlMerge tool with Microsoft database from long back its feature and operation performance is very smooth and easily integrated with others database. hence I like this.
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    Return on Investment
    Idera, Inc.
    • ER/Studio has had a positive impact on my project as we can develop the data model and have a clear understanding of business needs before we continue with the development phase.
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    KS DB Merge Tools
    • lots of competitors
    • it's help to accomplish small task
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    ScreenShots

    ER/Studio Screenshots

    Screenshot of logical data models in ER/Studio Data Architect.Screenshot of data catalog in ER/Studio Data Architect.Screenshot of data glossaries in ER/Studio Data Architect.

    MssqlMerge Screenshots

    Screenshot of MssqlMerge Home tab - schema changes summaryScreenshot of MssqlMerge Batch data diff tab - Data changes summaryScreenshot of MssqlMerge table data diffScreenshot of MssqlMerge Table structure diff tabScreenshot of MssqlMerge Object listScreenshot of MssqlMerge Text diff - compare object definition