DPA: FTW.
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 22, 2022
PL
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
DPA has the best combination of capability, usability and availability in the SQL analysis market.
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What is SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) enables deep visibility into database performance and expert advice for performance optimization and tuning.What can you monitor with DPA? OracleOracle ExadataOracle EBSMicrosoft SQL Server Azure SQL DatabaseAzure SQL Database Managed InstanceMySQLDB2 SAP ASE AuroraMariaDBDPA monitors…
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Easy to use and provides more details on the queries
Rating: 9 out of 10
August 8, 2023This is good tool to analyze the DB performance. This is used by DBAs to understand the usage of the databases across the departments. It helps in understanding the actual pro...
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Manager
8 years of experienceDPA Delivers Tremendous Value
Rating: 10 out of 10
August 2, 2022Our e-commerce platform = crown jewels (i.e. all revenue flows in via website). Knowing the in/outs of DB performance is a business requirement.
DPA is a *tremendous* tool. I...
Michael P. O'Hara
Director - Information Technology
Head of Cyber Security
The Avon Company (now owned by LG H&H)
3 years of experienceHands Down: SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Beats SQL Profile and Database Engine Tuning Advisor
Rating: 10 out of 10
April 21, 2022Spitfire deploys a software platform backed by a Microsoft SQL Database with over 140 tables and more than 650 procedures. The size of the database typically surpasses million...
Stan York
Executive - Information Technology
VP of Development
Spitfire Management, LLC
4 years of experienceDPA is hell lot of a Business for Database world
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 25, 2022We are using Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for few of our customers to help in monitoring their Database Environment which includes Microsoft SQL, Postgre SQL, Orac...
Nikhil Kumar Sharma
Consultant - Engineering
Associate Consultant
HCL Technologies
5 years of experienceDPA: FTW.
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 22, 2022We use DPA to manage a very large and somewhat cranky SQL environment for ambulatory healthcare end users (from providers and office managers to assistants and front desk pers...
Paul Land
Director - Information Technology
Director of Technology
WVP Health Authority
3 years of experience
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What is SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) enables deep visibility into database performance and expert advice for performance optimization and tuning.
What can you monitor with DPA?
- Oracle
- Oracle Exadata
- Oracle EBS
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- MySQL
- DB2
- SAP ASE
- Aurora
- MariaDB
What makes DPA stand out:
- Quick, easy, and reliable performance
troubleshooting available in real time and historically
- Machine learning anomaly analysis to bring intelligence to go beyond traditional threshold based analysis
- Find inefficient workloads, aggregated by table, for indexing opportunities—an “X marks the spot” tuning analysis
- Cross-platform database support for a single-pane-of-glass view into your environment
- Blocking analysis: what is blocking and a hierarchy of what is being blocked, plus overall impact
- PerfStack™ integration with other SolarWinds products for more complete visibility (applications, servers, storage, hypervisor, network, and more)
- Agent-less architecture with the ability to scale from a few instances to thousands, low 1% average overhead
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Features
- Supported: Database monitoring
- Supported: Tuning advisors for queries, workload, and indexes aggregated at the table level
- Supported: Correlated resource metrics for easy diagnosis of hardware constraint impacts on end-users
- Supported: Detailed blocking analysis for contention bottlenecks
- Supported: I/O activity tracking at the drive/mount and file level
- Supported: Alerts and reports
- Supported: DPA Central to manage large and/or distributed environments
- Supported: Always On Availability Group and RAC insights
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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Integrations
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
- SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)
- SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
- SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
- SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
- SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
- SolarWinds VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM)
- SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
- SolarWinds User Device Tracker
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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, AWS Marketplace app |
| Mobile Application | No |
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The most common users of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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SolarWinds DPA should be on every DBA's wishlist.
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 24, 2022
DH
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
There are some overlaps, but DPA has a lot more historical information that allows us to analyze statements over time rather than just see what is going on at that moment.
Awesome Tool for SQL Performance Tuning
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 23, 2022
GG
Vetted Review
Verified User
9 years of experience
SolarWinds DPA is an Excellent Performance Monitoring Tool for SQL Server
Rating: 10 out of 10
April 07, 2021
MS
Vetted Review
Verified User
8 years of experience
Overall DPA is the best tool that I have used because of its simple interface and ability to dig in within a few clicks to see the root of a performance issue, but Idera and SQL Sentry have some areas where they are better than DPA, such as blocking and deadlocks.
I also feel the Idera tool has a slight edge over DPA when it comes to recommendations for improvements.
I also feel the Idera tool has a slight edge over DPA when it comes to recommendations for improvements.
Great for general monitoring
Rating: 8 out of 10
July 17, 2020
EB
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
The integration with the other Solarwinds products was the main reason for my selection and the easy setup.