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Making DB management so much easier!
What do you like best about the product?
DBA by solarwinds is another excellent module for DB management and monitoring. If you have felt like you're blind to DB performance issues, DB problems or anything else then this product will change the way you work. It will help you find problems much faster and even prevent potential downtime, by bring things to your attention before they cause problems. The varied views help you have a quick oversight of all your DB without going in and out of various windows. The historical information is another by win for DBA, allowing to monitor query performance etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
DBA lacks search capability at the moment and this would be something that would improve it, if it was implemented. It would also be nice if it was closer integrated with the rest of the solarwinds platforms, as it feels like a separate product entirely at times, though this isn't that big a deal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's hugely increased workflow and productivity and prevented definite downtime on more than one occasion. It's also helped us keep our DB more streamlined to prevent slow down for end users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you feel like you're always blind to DB problems and are not sure where to start then DBA could be the way to go. Check out a trial first to see it in action and i'm sure you'll start to see what it has to offer and how it can improve your day to day workload.
Great Product to keep your Databases in check
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and great dashboard for display of performance charts.
This was easy to setup and get running.
Lots of useful information on the solar winds Thwack users form.
Graphical chats and UI work well and make it easy for us to spot an issue.
This was easy to setup and get running.
Lots of useful information on the solar winds Thwack users form.
Graphical chats and UI work well and make it easy for us to spot an issue.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is a little high but the it does have a lot of features for the price !
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We looked at this tool to prevent outages caused by poor database performance. We can proactively monitor everything to ensure the sites are up, functional and running efficiently.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ensure it meets all requirements> it is easy to setup and integrate into an existing solar winds environment.
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.
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