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Must Have tool for Any SQL DBA
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to see current activities from multiple aspect/view is best thing for me.
When there is a an issue with any Server and need to quickly narrow down to the right place of root cause this is a tool allows me to focus on right places and remove all sorts of noise from data.
Tagging and Annotation is another great feature.
Ability to see the historical details/plan/ is very helpful while working on Query performance.
When there is a an issue with any Server and need to quickly narrow down to the right place of root cause this is a tool allows me to focus on right places and remove all sorts of noise from data.
Tagging and Annotation is another great feature.
Ability to see the historical details/plan/ is very helpful while working on Query performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
1) I can not search the specific text on any of the sub screen when drill down to session/sql/machine etc... tabs.
2) there is only one way to search the SQL by actual text is "SQL TEXT" and that is not complete. it would be good to have some place we can search specific sql I am looking for.
3) any adhoc sql/queries are not grouped to gather (like procedures) and hence its historical details can not be viewed. it will be good to have some way of connecting those adhoc sqls using same plan and being able to generate execution history.
4) on the same adhoc plan tab, for any given plan we have to drill down each sql manually one by one. it would be god to have some kind of summary popup/tool-tip when we hover over the plan in DPA.
2) there is only one way to search the SQL by actual text is "SQL TEXT" and that is not complete. it would be good to have some place we can search specific sql I am looking for.
3) any adhoc sql/queries are not grouped to gather (like procedures) and hence its historical details can not be viewed. it will be good to have some way of connecting those adhoc sqls using same plan and being able to generate execution history.
4) on the same adhoc plan tab, for any given plan we have to drill down each sql manually one by one. it would be god to have some kind of summary popup/tool-tip when we hover over the plan in DPA.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a go to tool for me in my current work place for finding/analyzing/solving any type of SQL DB issues.
it removes the waste from screen speed up the process that increases the over all cycle time for resolving any DB issue.
it removes the waste from screen speed up the process that increases the over all cycle time for resolving any DB issue.
DPA personal review
What do you like best about the product?
I personally love the real time aspect to troubleshooting. It is often something other products can deflect. It fully integrates into other Solarwinds products like NPM. Cross vendor support is also a great benefit, SQL, Oracle, MySQl, SAP, and cloud offerings.
The live charts are worth their weight in gold. being able to see and then go back in time to check before the issue happened is wonderful and one of its best features. I have used other products that over look this and the fact you can alter the granularity yourself is great.
The live charts are worth their weight in gold. being able to see and then go back in time to check before the issue happened is wonderful and one of its best features. I have used other products that over look this and the fact you can alter the granularity yourself is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
some of the features are needed to get the most out of the other solarwinds products. you often feel like you have to buy the set to get the most befit.The cost of the product can quickly rise. The start price is great but in reality its vastly higher when you factor in a larger environment. I know its cheaper then other solutions however when you factor in you really need other modules to make sure you're getting most out of it (SAM) it really does rack up the cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
bottlenecks. It comes with a lot of of the box and is able to detect issues I wasn't aware of. It makes you seem like a Database performance specialist even with limited knowledge. We have seen a few speed issues just from the real time performance charts.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
personally I would use this in conjunction to owning the other solar winds products. NPM and SAM are a must
DPA a good solution to monitor performance of your Databases.
What do you like best about the product?
SQL query tuning advice.
Identifies database problems in realtime .
DPA can monitor database instances that you manage running on physical or virtual servers. It can also monitor Amazon RDS instances hosted in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Identifies database problems in realtime .
DPA can monitor database instances that you manage running on physical or virtual servers. It can also monitor Amazon RDS instances hosted in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall a very good but as all products have some flaws, it too has one which is sometimes experiences slowness.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifies Blocking sessions and deadlock for a query.
Generates an alert for a query taking longer to execute.
Gives an advice for better query execution.
Minimum system requirements.
Generates an alert for a query taking longer to execute.
Gives an advice for better query execution.
Minimum system requirements.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
My recommendation to others considering DPA is that they should install a 15 days evaluation version of DPA, to checkout if this product meets their requirements.
Great Tool for Performance Troubleshooting
What do you like best about the product?
Very clean interface that makes identifying problem queries easy to spot
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with Orion platform is half baked.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance slowdowns and optimization.
Solarwinds DPA Review
What do you like best about the product?
You are able to select different types of data to be analyzed and you are able to see the results easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
It seemed a bit slow to update the data, but that may be because it was a demo product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to analyze our VMs that store our database and the efficiency of them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try the demo to see if it will suit your needs
Excellent Product
What do you like best about the product?
It gives you an overall insight to all databases with alerts and a real understanding what's happening. If you are constantly battling clueless issues or lack of alerts and information then this is a real game changer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Load capacity is sometimes slow even though hardware requirements are met. (not a huge issues though)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A lot of time is saved every day and even maintenance time has been reduced. Alert options and customisation really helps narrow down what problems you want to me notified of etc. Down time is often minimised or even completely eradicated.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It removes a lot of stress from day to day work. Administratively its excellent to be able to find issues or errors before it causes something more serious. Additionally there is no need to be constantly checking things as the alerting and reporting helps show trends to prevent future problems.
Database Analysis at its best
What do you like best about the product?
Various aspects of the DPA including queries that take up the most Wait Times, Deadlock conditions, compute resources consumed by the DB instance like CPU, Mem, and the best part, even Virtual infrastructure resources.
With recent additions to the NPM + DPA integration, PerfStack allows cross-module correlation helping identify issues with network or server or DB at the same time
With recent additions to the NPM + DPA integration, PerfStack allows cross-module correlation helping identify issues with network or server or DB at the same time
What do you dislike about the product?
The SolarWinds DPA Reporting feature currently does not allow customization.
Standard out-of-the-box reports are not suitable for all environments.
The product should include a Report writing functionality for custom reports.
Standard out-of-the-box reports are not suitable for all environments.
The product should include a Report writing functionality for custom reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our DB instances run most of the business applications and DB Administrators are required to provide an optimal performance of the DB and hence the Business Apps. Insights into DB performances are thereby helping us resolve Biz App performance issues and ensuring that Biz Apps run at desired performance levels.
The product is very good for Database administrators as it helps to be proactive and monitors DBs.
What do you like best about the product?
The way the product works. It gives the customer a proactive approach to the state and health of their databases.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at the moment. It's a nice product and very competitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To help the customer analyze the current database server performance on the network. Proactive monitoring is very key and this would help everyone in charge be more attentive to likely happenings on the databases.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a very highly appreciated product. I recommend you go for it to help you properly analyze your databases. Especially for the proactive monitoring.
Connections were a little hard
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the ease of setup for connecting it with my NPM
What do you dislike about the product?
I had to open a few more ports than I would have liked
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Watching my SQL performance
One of the best performance analyzers on the market
What do you like best about the product?
The stunningly easy way to see a visual with the expensive queries bringing down system's performance. Works really well with both Oracle and SQLServer. DBAs life has become so easy due to this software
What do you dislike about the product?
Price is on the higher end, but definitely realizes the ROI in the mid-long term. This software becomes a little redundant once everyone moves to a c full cloud storage solution. Trial period for 14 days was too little to evaluate but was able to extend thru the account manager
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Definitely shorter turn around time to resolve issues as this software pin points the bottle necks right away.
There's an alerting mechanism that sets our DBA team to be more proactive
There's an alerting mechanism that sets our DBA team to be more proactive
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Evaluate your long term ROI versus short term since you may not get full ROI within 1-2 years. You will however see the results immediately
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