Quest vs Idera

[RR]

Hello,

I have seen and used a bit of Quest Foglight, Spotlight and PA. Of late, I
checked out Ideras Diagnostic Manager and found it pretty interesting. I
wanted to get your perspective on Idera and would it be worth the purchase
compared to Quest ? Please list pros and cons. Idera appears much cheaper as
well as we have quite a no. of SQL Servers in our environment.

Any information you can provide may make the decision process easier or
harder ;)

Thank you

[Carlos Sacristan]

Have you check Performance Advisor
(http://www.sqlsentry.net/performance-advisor/sql-server-performance.asp) ?

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[Aaron Bertrand]

Both cost and features I prefer Performance Advisor from sqlsentry.net.
Since it couples quite nicely with Event Manager, I can manage SQL Server
Agent and overall performance in one simple GUI.

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[RR]

I am looking at something that in addition to the perfmon data can capture
the SQL profiler data as part of the tool.. so we can look at slow running
queries,etc.

Does this tool from sqlsentry give you that ?

Also where does Operations Manager 2007 sit in all of this ?

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[Jonathan Kehayias]

PSSDiag with SQL Nexxus gives you that, and for free.

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[Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]]

> Does this tool from sqlsentry give you that ?

Yes, and they even patented their own lightweight and focused method called
QuickTrace. You should check out the trial, you will get more out of
playing with it for an hour than you could ever get sending a barrage of
questions here.

> Also where does Operations Manager 2007 sit in all of this ?

<shrug> I do not use that tool. I'm a database guy, not a systems guy.
:-)