SolarWinds SQL Sentry Pricing

“License cost is higher for one instance.”

“Integration with their one-of-a-kind Plan Explorer product: Plan Explorer blows away anything else out there - and there is not much outside of the Microsoft-supplied tools - for graphical query plan...”

“Our environment was growing at a steady pace and the cost to procure additional licensing wasn't in the budget so we started looking for alternative products.”

“I implemented an SSIS environment to replace a much more expensive DELL Boomi implementation, which was doing nothing more than moving data from one server to another.”

“We evaluated couple of product on certain parameters like global view, performance tuning recommendations, analysis, expensive/long running queries, IO information, alerts, dashboard, reports,...”

“You can learn a new interface, leading products offer the same feature and pricing is negotiable.”

“It seamlessly integrates with Plan Explorer for detailed analysis of the execution plan.”

“After analysing the execution plan and parameter values, we found that the cached plan was not optimsed for a certain parameter values set.”

“SQL performance has improved by providing the ability to hone in on the high wait issue, zooming in to retrieve the top SQL statement and proceeding to the query plan via plan explorer.”

“When we looked at the execution plan that was captured by SQL Sentry we could see that a sub-optimal plan had been cached.”

“Plan Explorer is my primary tool for query plan review and optimization.”