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SQL Sentry - Simple
May 03, 2016

SQL Sentry - Simple

Aron Feldman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor

SQL Sentry Performance Advisor is used on a daily basis to troubleshoot performance issues, disk space utilization, i/o bottlenecks, blocking, deadlocks, etc. It is used by the Data Warehouse SQL Server DBAs on a daily basis, and has proven to be the perfect tool: powerful and yet very simple.
  • The dashboard contains the required information to check on how a server is performing.
  • Reports are very good. We use them to report to upper management.
  • How simple it is to use it.
  • Alerting is amazing.
  • Expand to other platforms, such as Oracle.
  • IDERA
I was an Idera user. It sometimes felt very complicated to deal with the information delivered by that tool. I started to do some research and found SQL Sentry. After evaluating the product for a couple of weeks, and showing upper management what SQL Sentry was able to do, we moved out of Idera.
It is very good in showing the information needed to keep servers running at their best. We have detected scenarios when our servers where performing very bad that would have been very hard to do without SQL Sentry.

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Feature Ratings

SQL Performance Monitoring
10.0
Performance dashboard
10
Intelligent alerting
10
Top SQL
10
Historical trend data
10

Using SQL Sentry Performance Advisor

  • Easy to use.
  • A complete tool to troubleshoot, monitor and fix SQL Server issues.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None