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IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager vs. ApexSQL by Quest

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    ApexSQL by Quest

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AApexSQL is a software development company headquartered in Chapel Hill, US, and a Quest company. The company specializes in developing professional software tools for Microsoft SQL Server including tools for database auditing, recovery, change management, development, and documentation. ApexSQL is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.N/A
    Pricing
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerApexSQL by Quest
    Editions & Modules
    Standard via eCommerce
    1,996.00
    per instance with first year maintenance included
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    Pricing Offerings
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerApexSQL by Quest
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerApexSQL by Quest
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager and ApexSQL by Quest
    Feature
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    2% below category average
    ApexSQL by Quest
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    Ratings
    Performance dashboard9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Top SQL9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical trend data9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization support5.06 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerApexSQL by Quest
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerApexSQL by Quest
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Quest Software
    ApexSQL streamslines and automate DBMS in no time, helps in implementing the auditing and compliance requirements and data migration and it also help in building scalable application and secure application like when we develop application using Apex SQL, it will become very secure automatically due to its build in features and also building small application and deployment of code is very easy When you have very large data size sometimes it run a bit slow.
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    Pros
    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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    Quest Software
    • Templates
    • Code editing
    • Code Review
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    Cons
    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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    Quest Software
    • Source control can be a bit difficult with large database tables
    • Many tools so can be complex for new developers to onboard and use efficiently
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Quest Software
    ApexSQL by Quest provides many toolkits for sql server that stacks up against its alternatives such as Operation toolkit which includes capabilities like disaster recovery, backup and restore etc, DevOps toolkit which include automation, compare and sync toolkit which include comparison between source and target schemas. ApexSQL by Quest also ensures the privacy and security of data. For this mentioned reason, our organization select ApexSQL by Quest
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Quest Software
    • Free to use so easily affordable
    • Very easy to use of any new employee can easily learn
    • It provides all encompassing tool for our developers and ApexSQL solves that
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