“SQL diagnostic manager is that rare tool that can be used in all phases of database administration and development. It allows me to see real-time performance gain or loss and to quickly dial-in on performance issues. Also, with the historical information SQL diagnostic manager provides, it's much easier to head off problems before they occur.”
-- Database Architect, Renaissance Learning, Inc
“Idera's SQL diagnostic manager and SQLconfig are the perfect tools for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting our mission-critical database environment. The status information enables us to quickly resolve any issues, resulting in tremendous time and effort being saved. Both expert and novice DBAs alike rely on these easy-to-use tools to manage our 25 SQL Servers, with database sizes ranging from two GB to 130 GB. This "out of the box" solution provides an essential layer in bullet-proofing our database environment. ”
-- MS SQL Server DBA, Cole National Corporation
“At WellPoint, SQL Server functions as the back-end to many of our business critical applications that help us serve over 5 million customers, so we can't tolerate any performance or availability problems. SQL diagnostic manager gives us the information we need to quickly identify and resolve SQL Server problems before they happen. Now we are spending more time on proactive and strategic planning -- instead of putting out fires.”
-- Chief Systems Architect, WellPoint
“With SQL diagnostic manager’s centralized console, filtering capabilities, and data repository, I'm able to see what's happening to all of my SQL Servers now or 2 months ago, with the click of a button. I now have more time to plan and tune my environment -- and it’s a lot easier and faster than trying to collect the data myself. Great job Idera!”
-- SQL Database Administrator, Boston Medical Center Health Net Plan
“Idera's SQL diagnostic manager saves me a ton of time on a daily basis. Whenever I have a SQL Server performance issue, I open SQL diagnostic manager and all of the information I need to fix the problem is right there. It eliminates all of the hassle and wasted time that it takes to search around in numerous places to get the data I need.”
-- Database Administrator, Samtec, Inc.
“We provide ambulance service to over 1 million people. We use SQL diagnostic manager to monitor several mission critical servers that are the backbone of our organization. These servers help us track and dispatch ambulances when seconds count. SQL diagnostic manager provides us the insight necessary to make sure our servers are performing the way we need them to. Before we used SQLdm, we were only guessing how everything was doing, now we have the facts.”
-- Cheif Information Officer, Emergency Medical Services Authority
“We have been using SQL diagnostic manager since 2003, it's our virtual teammate who never ever sleeps and continuously monitor our the performance of our SQL Server production systems. We especially love the alerting capabilities because it is very reliable, immediate, and allows us to customize the alerts we really need. It’s much better than any other SQL Server monitoring tools we’ve seen.”
-- DBA manager, QuickenLoans Inc.
“SQL diagnostic manager is an extremely effective tool for identifying SQL Server performance issues. The ‘Worst Performing’ section is especially important because it helps my team to immediately focus on any problem areas, diagnose them, and fix. Not only does SQL diagnostic manager tell us which stored procedures are slow, it can also pinpoint specific lines of SQL – saving us hours of time! ”
-- VP of Technology, SmartPak
“SQL Diagnostic Manager saves us a lot of time by taking care of the overhead of database monitoring in a large SQL Server environment. I especially like the proactive alerting feature which helps us meet the SLAof 99.99% database uptime.”
-- Database Administrator, Service Corporation International
“Our company runs primarily purchased, third-party applications. This presents several tuning, troubleshooting, and performance challenges because we did not design the applications. SQL diagnostic manager gives us both deep and immediately visible performance data that allows us to immediately see what's going on inside the vendors' databases, to diagnose performance issues, and to keep things running smoothly. It’s a great tool.”
-- Database Administrator, American Management Services
“SQL diagnostic manager the only product we’ve found that can easily show which processes or code are hogging resources and causing blocking. Finally, we were able to get some problem code changed! We were able to prove, with SQL diagnostic manager’s reports, that it was not the hardware that was causing the performance problem!”
-- Server Support Specialist, Cookie Lee Inc.
“SQL diagnostic manager provides all the information needed to fix SQL Server performance issues. With one tool, SQL diagnostic manager provides all vital information needed to proactively solve bottlenecks and issues on our SQL Servers.”
-- Database Administrator, Sterling Testing Systems
“Managing multi-terabyte SQL Servers is challenging in any environment, especially when high availability is a must. In the past, we tracked the performance statistics with default tools provided by Microsoft, but Idera has made this daunting task manageable with SQL diagnostic manager. This tool pinpoints issues on the server and has even warned us of potential problems before they affect availability. It allows us to view the servers from one location and makes performance tracking so easy. Idera's SQL diagnostic manager has saved us time and data-loss.”
-- Senior Database Administrator, Premier Bankcard
“Before using SQL diagnostic manager, our business had a “roll-your-own” mentality when it came to proactively monitoring and metric gathering. Our method was cumbersome, non-scalable and difficult to maintain. After installing SQL diagnostic manager, I was shocked at how quickly it replaced the functionality it took us months to create by hand. It is especially helpful in our quality assurance testing and provides valuable insight that we bring back to the application development team. I recommend SQL diagnostic manager to everyone who administrates or develops on SQL Server.”
-- Director of Database Architecture & Administration, Sterling Testing Systems
“At DDI, we deliver web-based leadership training, assessment and selection solutions to many Fortune 500 companies worldwide. SQL Server is mission critical for our business. SQL diagnostic manager gives us sophisticated analysis, monitoring, notification and reporting capabilities -- that would satisfy even the pickiest DBA. We can easily evaluate table growth trends, server metrics, index health, and long-running queries, helping us maintain a healthy SQL Server environment. We also have receive alerts on our most important processes at desired thresholds. If you need to manage multiple SQL Servers, we highly recommend SQL diagnostic manager.”
-- Team Leader, Info Services, Development Dimensions Int'l
“We have a growing population of databases and database servers at our organization, which makes the job of managing the SQL Server environment fast-paced and challenging. Idera's tools target the information I need to address issues quickly and keep operations running smoothly. SQL diagnostic manager is a superb reporting tool, with many substantive features for daily use and real-time monitoring, plus visually appealing reports that keep management happy.”
-- IT Analyst II, Sacramento County District Attorney
“Idera’s SQL diagnostic manager provides us the functionality to monitor and troubleshoot all SQL Server Databases 24x7 and in turn enabled us to achieve our reliability of service target of 99.85 for all business critical commercial applications. I personally like the ability to generate charts to show the size of databases and its objects over a period of time. This has helped us to proactively allocate disk space based on the report. I also love the ability to set up monitoring criteria to a select group of servers.”
-- Senior Database Analyst, Northern Natural Gas
“SQL diagnostic manager allows me to see real-time statistics across all of my SQL Servers. It will also allow you to go back and get statistics for previous times. This allows me to quickly and easily generate reports for upper management regarding machine utilization during our peak times.”
-- Database Administrator, Brierley & Partners
“We have deployed SQL diagnostic manager on our top 24 production SQL Server databases. With Idera on the job, I am the first to know if any critical performance issues arise. Usually I can now resolve the problem before users are even aware there is a problem!”
-- DBA, Bear Creek Corporation
“SQL diagnostic manager gives me an remarkalble amount of historical performance information that I find indispensable for answering "after the fact" questions like “why was that system so slow last Wednesday? In seconds, SQL diagnostic manager shows all of the worst performing procedures or jobs for that day and I look like a hero!”
-- Database Administrator, Bear Creek Operations
“SQL diagnostic manager is an invaluable tool for our team. Our company relies heavily on SQL Server so we can’t afford to spend hours diagnosing SQL Server issues and cannot tolerate downtime. SQL diagnostic manager keeps constant tabs on the health of our SQL Servers and can tell us just about anything we need to know about their status. Now my team can be proactive and anticipate potential database problems before they arise, rather than just reacting to issues and failed database jobs.”
-- Michael Swinarski, Cox Communications
“SQL diagnostic manager has drastically improved the way we manage our SQL Servers across the Department. It puts a lot of valuable information at our fingertips. We are also impressed with the alerting functionality which allows us to filter out less critical issues and send specific alerts directly to team members that can troubleshot and solve the problem quickly. With SQL diagnostic manager we are able to diagnose and resolve SQL Server performance issues faster than ever before.”
-- Mitch Bottel, California Dept of Health Care Services