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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Pragmatic Workbench Enterprise was a suite that combined four Pragmatic Works products: BI xPress, DBA xPress, DOC xPress and LegiTest. It was acquired by SentryOne in April 2018, and has reached its EOL phase. After the summer of 2022 it will likely no longer be available, and unsupported.

    $2,490

    per seat

    SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVividCortex, acquired by SolarWinds in December 2019, provides database performance monitoring designed to increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings. The GDPR- and SOC 2-compliant platform offers visibility into major open-source databases—MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis—for the engineering team at scale. Industry leaders like Etsy, GitHub, SendGrid, and Yelp rely on Database Performance Monitor for all-query monitoring and drill…N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
    Workbench Client Edition
    2,490
    per seat
    Workbench Server Edition
    8,995
    per server
    Workbench Enterprise Edition (Client + Server)
    9,995
    1 user / 1 server
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsWorkbench Enterprise combines all of the functionality within Workbench Client (local install) and Workbench Server (server install).—
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    Features
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    Database Development
    Comparison of Database Development features of Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued) and SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
    Feature
    Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
    -
    Ratings
    Test data generation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score5.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Workbench Enterprise is consistent across devices and users so far. It works the same, and access is easy. I have a problem with its security. If you use an enterprise password to access databases, it's very easy to click the show password on the connection page and expose the enterprise password. You shouldn't allow users to use the same accounts to access the database because that means all users are sharing the same password.
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    SolarWinds
    Computing resources consumed by the DB instance, DPA queries & wait time, deadlock conditions, virtual infrastructure resources. The addition of NPM & DPA integration as well as cross-correlation in the identification of issues with the network or server or DB is all stupid-proof. Monitoring is more than just health and resource consumption, it's also performance. DB performance analysis is key to maintaining healthy DB instances.
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    Pros
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    • Querying is easy and quick.
    • Updating tables is very easy.
    • It gives us very accurate error messages.
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    SolarWinds
    • Simple to use and very easy to learn.
    • The execution engines run in parallel, can execute any syntax or query.
    • DPN can run all queries for both Oracle and SQL with no additional support.
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    Cons
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    • It has autocompleted, but I find it difficult to use or get to use.
    • It doesn't automatically complete table names or field names.
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    SolarWinds
    • The Reporting feature currently doesn't allow customization.
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    Usability
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    SolarWinds
    I would say it is a very good tool from overall perspective compared to what I have used till now, still I will give it like 9 just for the sake of the interface and the integration which they should be doing soon with the main module which is SAM , NPM etc.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Our team does the support for us. Sometimes we see download related issues that can easily be fixed by our team. Most issues you will see with one user in your org will probably happen to others, so keep a log and track those issues. Then have a fix for them somewhere that everyone has access to. This will save you a lot of time troubleshooting.
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    SolarWinds
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    Alternatives Considered
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds DPA gives you a very deep analysis and monitoring of the devices which these tools will not give you neither Datadog or ManageEngine. It even gives you job rate , db locks and all other parameters to monitor which we usually do manually by going in to the DB and not from the tools. It also creates a dashboard out of the same.
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    Return on Investment
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    • I personally like Workbench Enterprise, and I can do everything I need to do using it.
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    SolarWinds
    • What is the cost of a downed DB instance? That's your ROI. DPM lets you see issues before they become critical.
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    ScreenShots

    Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Real-Time SSIS Execution DiagramScreenshot of Visual Object LineageScreenshot of Data Validation Testing DesignerScreenshot of Data Validation Testing -  Performance DashboardScreenshot of Workbench Launch Dashboard

    SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Screenshots

    Screenshot of The Profiler Dashboard is a powerful, dynamic dashboard for ranking and filtering activity on your servers: It can instantly show you what needs attention and it provides a unified view of all your database types that VividCortex monitors. It enables you to view and understand your system by profiling it according to its most significant attributes—customized and selected by you.Screenshot of This dashboard displays a list of queries and allows you to filter them with powerful specificity. Filters can be set according to query text, host, and timeframe when the query was first seen / last active.Screenshot of VividCortex captures an enormous amount of data, and the Summary Dashboard helps users make sense of it, reducing their time-to-insight. It features widgets with automatic displays for Top 5 Queries by Total Time, Top 5 Queries by User CPU, Application Overview, Critical Events, and more.Screenshot of VividCortex monitors thousands of metrics in your system, and the Charts and Dashboard’s navigation pane allows you to toggle, customize, and enable various categories of generated charts. You can then easily navigate and examine the charts’ metrics with mouseover and zoom capabilities.