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Great Product to see under the hood of your applications
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to get alerts on DB slowness.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing that I've found so far! Be good if it was cheaper.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickly finding root cause of user slow response issues.
SolarWinds DPA - View From Limited Use
What do you like best about the product?
Very in depth product and makes it a lot easier to find problems and root cause. Love the Tuning advisor, comes in very handy when you're not a DBA admin, and enjoy the query analysis.
Not being from a DBA background there is a learning curve to this, but if you take the input from DPA it will point you in the right direction more quickly to resolve the issue or even prevent the problem all together.
Not being from a DBA background there is a learning curve to this, but if you take the input from DPA it will point you in the right direction more quickly to resolve the issue or even prevent the problem all together.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost due to the licensing model, depending on your setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're still getting our heads around the product, but there was instantly some questions came up around tuning the databases that we hadn't realized before.
Great for those who aren't DBAs
What do you like best about the product?
Great data output, easy to understand charts that can be emailed. Our DBAs have really liked moving to the new product and we'd like to roll it out further. We host our own web applications. Being able to chart Database performance along application statistics is perfect.
What do you dislike about the product?
Separate server required to our standard Orion install. It would be nice to see the next steps of integration between DPA and the Orion Suite. We need to keep the number of VMs to a minimum.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Linking application performance to database performance when troubleshooting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get a trial and give it a try.
DPA Usefull
What do you like best about the product?
Allows monitoring in real time of DB performance, and flags potential problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Interface is a little klugy, but otherwise works well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitor and Optimize Database performance.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take a look. It's well worth the price and has helped us solve problems quickly.
DPA is a pretty great tool
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing I've used it for was looking for root blockers and monitoring deadlocks but just from the features that I looked at while in the trial period it can do so much more. It was easy to use and the setup didn't take much time. I know that a lot of time can be put in on it but that is something else I liked about DPA. If you are willing to spend the time and develop it, it could be a one stop shop
What do you dislike about the product?
There wasn't much that I didn't like, there were times went the program seemed slow however that could have been due to the limitations on the database I was trying it on
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were having issues with deadlocks happening during the middle of the day and DPA helped to quickly identify where they were coming from and who was causing it. (It was someone running 52 different reports in Orion for hardware monitors at the same time.) The benefits to me seem to be endless plus if given the opportunity within my current company I would like to see about getting it implemented
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great tool for analyzing your database with. I would highly recommend it.
Tested in a POC environment
What do you like best about the product?
Adding DB to the stack to find performance issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Systems team did not find the interface user friendly. They had no experience with SolarWinds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to diagnose and issue with our SolarWinds NPM database and reconfigured the hardware setup.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good product that requires more diligent training of staff.
Easy to use Database performance analysis tool
What do you like best about the product?
Everything is broken down with time based stacked graphs
What do you dislike about the product?
The expense if you have a lot of databases
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickly find out where the problem is.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The price gets bigger if you have many databases but it's one of the best tools to quickly isolate where the problems are in your database with wait times. Easy to find the query where all the time is being wasted.
Easy to read and Monitor Database
What do you like best about the product?
The detail that DPA provides, very easy to setup, easy to integrate with our current monitoring system. Easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Web Page that the DPA uses is visually bland. Should be more colorful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
able to identify processes that are using memory and have discovered issues with disk speeds
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very good decision when monitoring our Databases
Life Saver
What do you like best about the product?
I liked being able to monitor SIDs on database instances.
What do you dislike about the product?
A small dislike but it would be the cost of the product. Oracle instances come with a premium cost vs SQL instances.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This will be beneficial for those with minimal database experiences. In tough situations, it is good for a non DB person to be able to dive into this product and see potential issues like long running queries that need to be killed that cause service degradation.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This product is great for a team that wants to add it to their Solarwinds Portfolio, especially if Database monitoring is a need. There are other Database monitoring tools, but this will allow a small IT team to have one pane of glass for troubleshooting.
A must have product for database group
What do you like best about the product?
I love the start screen which immediately shows instances/queries need to be looked at.
What do you dislike about the product?
I could use a feature where it would allow me to email detail deadlock report.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DPA is helping us to ensure databases run smoothly.
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