“SQL Server plays a vital and growing role in our IT infrastructure. We've found Idera's SQL compliance manager to be an excellent and easy-to-use solution for auditing SQL Server across our environment and for helping meet regulatory compliance requirements. The new alerting capabilities are going to make it even easier for us to keep tabs on who does what when across our SQL Server environment.”
-- Director of Information Technology, Tesoro Corporation
“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 SQL configuration 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
“Idera gives us everything we need to administer and manage our SQL Server environment. With its Web-based user interface, Idera gives us fast, easy administration no matter where we are. When incidents occur, we can respond immediately -- ensuring that disruption is minimized. Also, no more midnight trips to the office!”
-- IS Manager, Public Health & Environmental Services
“We currently have about 30 SQL servers, all of which are critical to the successful operation of our business. Idera's suite of SQL Server tools are an essential component in assuring the performance, availability and efficiency of these servers. They have also significantly reduced our DBA workload, enabling us to free up critical resources and increase service levels to our customers.”
-- Senior Technology Director, Money Management International
“Idera's deep expertise in SQL Server management and administration is impressive...Users benefit from Idera's focus on SQL Server management and administration and the breadth of its solutions for SQL Server.”
-- VP product management and product marketing, NetIQ
“Idera's range of SQL Server management and administration products have gained a strong following among SQL Server DBAs”
-- President, Edgewood Solutions
“SQL diagnostic manager is saving large amounts of time and helping us improve our end-users' experience. What's more, we know that it can do so much more! We are just scratching the surface of its capabilities.”
-- Database Manager, American Fidelity Assurance
“In order to commit to a service level, you've got to know what's going on in your infrastructure and have a view into what's happening. Idera and NetIQ products let us understand how our Web site and database applications are performing today and over time. We use that information to continually raise the quality of service we deliver to our customers via our site.”
-- Senior VP of IT , 1-800-Flowers
“Sarbanes-Oxley regulations require us to track changes to SQL Server logins and to provide an audit trail. We looked at many products to help us meet this requirement and chose SQL compliance manager because it was easy to deploy and maintain, and did not put an excessive load on a server. Also, unlike other products, SQL compliance manager was ready to use right out of the box but we know that we can customize in the future if we wish. It is a perfect solution for auditing high transaction servers.”
-- Director, Database Administration, Raymond James Financial
“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
“At SalesForce, SQL Server plays a crucial role in our business, so we must keep diligent backups and be prepared to restore a database in an instant. With SQL safe, not only do we get an excellent backup and recovery solution that can be implemented effectively across our enterprise, we also keep costs down by saving a lot of disk space and with Idera's simple pricing structure. Furthermore, because SQL safe runs outside of SQL Server's address space, it never affects the performance of our SQL Server environment.”
-- SQL Server DBA, SalesForce
“With the increasing deployment of SQL Server databases to hold mission-critical data, auditing and compliance have become critical issues. Organisations with large SQL Server infrastructures need a solution that is easy to deploy, easy to manage and that captures all the audit data required to ensure that compliance can be assessed on an ongoing basis”
-- Partner, Ernst and Young LLP
“Working together, Idera and Microsoft have been able to create management solutions that enable customers to get the most out of their SQL Server investments. Both Microsoft and Idera strive to deliver superior performance and value, and we are very excited to further our strategic relationship as we launch SQL Server 2005.”
-- General Manager for SQL Server, Microsoft Corporation
“We are impressed with the technology that Idera has developed to offer a valuable solution to assist SQL Server DBAs in solving complex management issues. By working with Idera we believe we will have a competitive edge in the world of high-performance SQL Server database operations.”
-- xecutive VP, Solutions Platform Group, NEC Solutions America
“Ensuring compliance with our internal audit standards provides a way to model our compliance after federal regulations which is critical to operations. SQL compliance manager ensures that we have a complete audit trail of all access and updates to our aircraft maintenance data, and makes it easy for us to provide comprehensive compliance reports. It also helps us rapidly identify problems, improves our processes, and makes us more efficient.”
-- Senior Planner, Technical Operations Division, Continental Airlines
“Information Shield is pleased to work with Idera to deliver solutions that provide customers with effective, scalable SQL Server auditing and compliance. Idera products allow organizations, for the first time, to get the SQL auditing detail required to implement and demonstrate effective control over their corporate data.”
-- CEO, Information Shield, Inc.
“SQL mobile manager provides my team with flexibility, convenience, and the ability to act quickly to ensure that our SQL Servers perform without hiccups. We really like being able to monitor our servers from anywhere 24 x 7. And with the instant alerts, monitoring, diagnostic details, and management features that SQL mobile manager provides, we can diagnose and correct SQL Server problems before users even notice -- all from a mobile device!”
-- Development Manager, Sears Home Improvement Products
“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 SQL diagnostic manager, we were only guessing how everything was doing, now we have the facts.”
-- Chief Information Officer, Emergency Medical Services Authority
“We had a system failure which demanded my attention on a Sunday morning at 2am. I ran into problems restoring parts of the server and had to call technical support. They were calm, logical and extremely helpful at a time when most personnel are nonfunctional. I highly recommend Idera because of their support after the sale.”
-- SQL Database Administrator, International Bank of Commerce
“We have been using SQL diagnostic manager since 2003, it's our virtual teammate who never ever sleeps and continuously monitors over 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.
“We are a gaming institution and are under strict regulatory compliance. We needed a product that would enable us to monitor any changes made to our databases and satisfy our auditor’s compliance requirements. SQL compliance manager gives us all that and much more. It allows us to monitor any changes and attempted changes to databases by users, date and system. With one glance of the reports, I can examine everything that happened to our systems for the past 24 hours or whatever time frame I choose. This has increased our security and has saved us countless hours when troubleshooting problems. I highly recommend SQL compliance manager for any database administrator that needs to be aware of changes in their SQL Server data and needs to satisfy auditing requests.”
-- I.S. Ops. Mgr., Ramada Express Hotel & Casino
“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 and fix them. 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 safe gives us the ability to backup and restore in at least ½ the time of manual SQL Server backups. This space and time savings allows us to perform month-end testing on the same day without impacting our production environment. We also have SQLschedule and SQL compliance manager from Idera – all of which are easy to use and save us so much time!”
-- Server Support Specialist, Cookie Lee Inc.
“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.
“We were running out of disk space on our backup drive. At times, backups would fail because of a lack of disk space. At first, adding bigger drives was seriously considered. We downloaded a demo copy of SQL safe and tried it. Wow! We had found our answer to our problem. The few times I have had to contact the support staff, the response time was very quick (most of the time in a few minutes). The staff was very patient and always had the problem resolved in no time at all. I highly recommend Idera’s products.”
-- Database Administrator, Monitronics International
“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 received 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
“Now that we have SQL safe, full backup time on one of our servers is down from 100+ hours to 30 hours or less. This is an incredible time considering the amount of data we're backing up!”
-- Data/System Architect, Treo Solutions
“Idera has a world class support team. When you have to put in a request for service, the response time is very quick and they continue to follow up until your question is resolved. When you deal with Idera, you deal with a partner not just another vendor.”
-- Database Adminstrator / Systems Analyst, A. N. Deringer, Inc.
“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 SQL compliance manager has enabled me to keep ahead of our auditors' requirements – and it helps me keep my supervisors happy, too. Thanks Idera!”
-- Senior Database Administrator, Premium Financing Specialists
“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
“We had a critical, urgent need to audit admin level accounts in our SQL environment to be compliant with SOX requirements. Idera's SQL compliance manager tremendously exceeded our expectations providing ease of setup, very granular configuration options, excellent real time activity monitoring and a great variety of reporting options. The email alerts also make us aware of login activity no matter where we are. This provides a comfort level to upper management that was not possible prior to SQL compliance manager’s implementation.”
-- Senior Database Administrator, Colonial Properties Trust
“SQL safe provides us with a solid backup solution with encryption and compression surpassing the native tools.”
-- IT Analyst II, Sacramento County District Attorney
“SQL configuration gives us a sanity check to the changes that get made in production, and provides a reminder to check for recent changes to source control.”
-- IT Analyst II, Sacramento County District Attorney
“I've troubled Idera's Technical Support Team often, and found them very helpful on numerous occasions. I like that I can start the online support chat and get someone live right away. Usually, I can get my solution right away. When the issue has been more complex, I've found they follow up with the customer until the issue is resolved. That strength of support has really helped to solidify my confidence in Idera's product line.”
-- IT Analyst II, Sacramento County District Attorney
“SQL safe has saved us a tremendous amount of money, space, and time! It's very easy to use and backing up and restoring a database is very easy. SQL safe is a very good tool and the price is very reasonable. Idera's customer service is also superb, I have always had our issues resolved within in a matter of hours.”
-- Database Administrator, Brierley & Partners
“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 purchased SQLscaler because it is the only product we could find that gave us the versatility we were looking for including the ability to maintain data integrity, fine tune the amount of data on specific tables, as well as the ability to determine impacts on both SQL 2000 and 2005.”
-- Database Administrator, The Newport Group
“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
“Lee University relies heavily on SQL Server for its business operations. We look for opportunities to expand our services to our constituents, which involves increased server loads. Therefore, we decided to purchase SQLscaler because it fits well with our existing processes. Integrating this product into our systems development life cycle process gives our IT staff a better idea of the capacity needed to protect our production environment. SQLscaler is a must for us!”
-- Senior Project Manager, Lee University
“SQL mobile manager has been a great product for us. It allows us to monitor all of our servers -- production and test -- from anywhere, anytime. And it works flawlessly. The greatest benefit is being able to monitor and manage SQL Server jobs during on-call hours. Now our DBAs can have a life on evenings and weekends!”
-- Senior Database Administrator, Southwest Securities, Inc.
“SQLscaler is an excellent tool to add to any organization’s arsenal. We found SQLscaler's components - Database Inflator, Stress Tester and Analytics extremely easy-to-use and they provide accurate and user - friendly reports. The flexibility of comparing different tests side-by-side was a boon for us when we wanted to decide on hardware configurations for our enterprise wide SQL Server databases. We found Idera's customer service to be exemplary! ”
-- Team Lead, Inland Imaging Business Associates
“SQLscaler helped us make the decision to move from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. Thorough testing using SQLscaler clearly showed the added benefit that SQL Server 2005 would provide to our existing environment. Also, SQLscaler saved valuable time and money by eliminating the need for external resources during the testing phase.”
-- Manager, Data Administration, Chiquita Brands International
“As a member of the Healthcare community, we are investing significant resources to insure that the personal health information from our members is secure. SQL secure can give us that ability right out of the box! It allows us to monitor data access and detect possible security gaps before they are exploited. When fully utilized, SQL secure will greatly assist us in going beyond meeting HIPPA requirements and giving our clients full confidence in our ability to maintain full confidentiality of their data.”
-- Database Administrator, Long Term Care Group (LTCG)
“In a nutshell, Idera's products for SQL Server make my life easier and allow me to dedicate more time to other parts of my job. Specifically, SQL secure automates user permission analysis -- a job that can be very time-consuming. It tells me at a glance what access a particular user has. Via filters and audits, I can easily keep track of changes to objects, permissions, logins, and group members.”
-- Database Analyst, Bass Pro Shops
“SQL secure has saved me a ton of time answering questions for auditors and even more time when they change the scope of what they are looking for! It is really important in the financial industry to determine who has access to what but more importantly through which channels. With SQL secure I can cut through looking through a lot of scanning of the different levels of security in SQL Server to get those answers.”
-- Senior Database Administrator, Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management
“SQLcheck provided exactly the information I was looking for! I was trying to find a way to determine what tables in my database were taking up the most space so I could shrink it, and SQLcheck got me that information immediately upon install.”
-- Developer, Fidesic Corporation
“SQL change manager has helped us roll out a completely new and innovative application that will support our entire business. Using SQL change manager, we have been able to work with two separate development teams then quickly compare beta and development versions for changes. We've also been able to quickly roll-back to previous versions as needed. If it wasn't for Idera’s SQL change manager, we would still be trying to get the application written!”
-- Senior Database Administrator, Risk Exchange, FirstComp Insurance
“Thank you very much Idera! Both Idera products we purchased, SQL compliance manager and change manager, are great! With SQL compliance manager, we can easily identify any server-wide activities. And SQL change manager provides a central point of control for SQL Server databases change management across our information system. The central repository of change history ensure that change is managed effectively, efficiently, and accurately.”
-- Database Administrator, Engle Martin and Associates
“SQL change manager has saved us a lot of money AND dramatically increased our productivity! With SQL change manager, we quickly find any changes to our production databases in a few minutes, as opposed to the hours it usually takes. Now it's easy for me to ensure that our customers can always get the reports they need. In our customers eyes, I really am a "SQL Server Superhero!””
-- Lead DBA, AZ Dept of Economic Security
“We needed a solution that would automatically synchronize database schema across our different environments. We purchased SQL change manager after an extensive search of SQL Server tools on the market. SQL change manager has the unique ability to archive a specific version of a database allowing us to document stages of the development lifecycle and revert back if needed -- it's really a valuable and time-saving tool!”
-- Manager, Database Systems, David's Bridal
“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
“At 2 AM on a Sunday morning, we were doing maintenance on a SQL Server remotely when we encountered a snag. Using SQL mobile manager and my Windows Mobile Device, I was able to reboot the server remotely. We were up and running again in just 5 minutes and were able to finish our maintenance. Later, I told the local tech that I didn't have to call him at 2 AM on Sunday -- he was very impressed!”
-- Systems Administrator, Verifications, Inc.
“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
“I've found the Point admin toolset to be very useful. The Backup Scheduler and the Database Accelerator tools are great, and the Quick Admin Tool saves me more time everytime I use it. Overall, the toolset makes SharePoint maintenance tasks easier -- even if you aren't a SharePoint expert.”
-- Point admin toolset user,
“We have quite a large SQL Server environment, ensuring performance levels, monitoring fragmentation, and defragmenting all of the hundreds of thousands of indexes in this environment could quickly become a full time job! SQL defrag manager helps us accomplish the task – enterprise-wide -- with ease.”
-- Josh Boaz, SQL Server DBA, Computer Automation Systems, Inc.
“Now I can quickly pinpoint fragmentation “hot spots” and automate the process of defragmentation to occur automatically. SQL defrag manager is extremely easy to use. I highly recommend it!”
-- Josh Boaz, SQL Server DBA, Computer Automation Systems, Inc.
“SQL defrag manager makes it very easy to monitor fragmentation and schedule defragmentation across all of the SQL Servers in our enterprise. Now that we have SQL defrag manager implemented, we have come to rely on it as a safer and quicker defragmentation process over manual fragmentation analysis.”
-- Rick Manderville, Database Support Manager, New Mexico Department Of Health
“With SQL defrag manager, SQL Server defragmentation has now become a streamlined task! The SQL defrag manager interface is really nice – I can quickly see any fragmentation “hot spots” that may exist across all of my SQL Servers. I can then schedule defragmentation to occur automatically, whenever it’s convenient for my company.”
-- Dave Devol, DealerPeak
“SQL defrag manager makes defragmenting SQL Server a breeze. It constantly analyzes SQL Server indexes and fragmentation levels, and only defragments the indexes that really need it. This is not only a huge time savings, it also defragments during the slow times – usually when I’m asleep!”
-- John Burris, DBA, DMAC
“SQL defrag manager is very easy to manage. I simply set it then forget about it. If you are always trying to find the time to defragment SQL Server indexes, you should definitely take a look at SQL defrag manager.”
-- John Burris, DBA, DMAC
“With SQL defrag manager, I am able to quickly monitor fragmentation levels across multiple SQL Servers. Not only does it save me a great deal of time over manual fragmentation analysis, it also puts my mind at ease. Now I can quickly determine if fragmentation levels are getting out of hand. It’s also very easy to use!”
-- Michael Perino, Sr. Database Manager, Community America Credit Union
“The SQL admin toolset is a godsend. It simplifies and streamlines many of the administrative duties that DBAs spend hours doing.”
-- Anonymous, DBA & SQL admin toolset customer
“I've found the Point admin toolset to be very useful. The Backup Scheduler and the Database Accelerator tools are great, and the Quick Admin Tool saves me more time everytime I use it. Overall, the toolset makes SharePoint maintenance tasks easier -- even if you aren't a SharePoint expert.”
-- Anonymous, Point admin toolset user
“Idera always had my vote for the best tool for SQL Servers. SQL admin toolset is awesome, I really liked the Patch Analyzer, with hot links to the KB articles. Server Configuration and Database Configuration reports are great too. Can't wait to use the rest of the reports. Great Tool, put me in for 1!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“This SQL admin toolset in conjunction with SQL diagnostic manager is like having a second senior DBA in house. Fantastic products!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“SQL Search is awesome!! I was able to quickly & easily search through and find some unnecessary hard-coding and references that needed to quickly be changed. Worth the price alone!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“I've got to admit that as I dive deeper into this product I am really impressed by the power and simplicity of the interface and the tools. So far, I've found the Patch Analyzer and the Password Checker to be wonderful. The Database Mover and Login Copy utilities also will save us time and effort from having to always manually run scripts. KUDOS to the development team! I think it's great to see a company dedicated to managing SQL server in large (100+ SQL servers) Enterprises!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“This is awesome! I've been a SQL Server DBA for over 10 years and it has taken me this long to build my arsenal of scripts to do the things that are all rolled into one app, SQL admin toolset. Thank you Idera for producing a tool that I can use every day!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“The Idera SQL admin toolset is simply fabulous. Being a DBA myself for over 15 years and managing a global team of over 20 DBAs worldwide, I was looking for a cost effective but feature rich product for my team so we can retire another expensive tool that we have been using for many years paying a high renewal fee year after year.”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“As a developer I find the SQL Search and Connection String Generator very useful. As an administrator I found the Backup Status and Server and Database Configuration tools useful. Patch Analyzer actually helped me find a couple servers that were behind.”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“The SQL Discovery and the Inventory Reporter are fantastic tools. The response time for the search was expedient. The information retrieved was sufficient. The Inventory Reporter provided a concise listing for SQL Servers.”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“The Inventory Reporter is a great tool that can be used to compare two or more SQL Servers. I used it to compare some servers and it shows the differences in the SQL server configuration as well as hardware differences all in a single report. Its strength is in its ability to highlight the differences. If you have ever gone through the painful task of having to build and configure two or more identical SQL Servers and ensuring that all is delivered with the same configuration, then this tool is a must have!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“Login Copy saved me HOURS of work. It was so easy!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“Great set of general purpose tools that every DBA can use that highlight regular activities that every DBA does or is going to do. I really like Server Configuration, Database Configuration, Inventory Reporter and Patch Analyzer. It is great to see side by side comparisons of all our SQL Server installations. Patch Analyzer is not only a great tool for a DBA but also for the sys admin/network admins to stay on top of OS patches. Can't wait to see the rest of the tools!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“The Backup Status tool has been super. It showed us several databases that we thought were being backed up but had been left out of the maintenance plan!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“The Database Configuration tools helped us discover several databases that we had in simple recovery mode that should have been in full recovery mode. Great tool!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“I love how the wizards for the different functions can be run so easily! You don't have to hunt and try to find the different management tools in SQL as these are here in one location. The SQL Search is awesome. I wished that I had this a year ago!”
-- SQL admin toolset User,
“I just installed and backed up our largest database - it went from 2.06 GB to 1.31 GB - a 36% savings!”
-- SQL safe User,
“This 2008 database takes about six hours to backup using native SQL backup; 43m02s with SQL safe to the same (network) location is quite an improvement!
I'm impressed:
Database size: 573,551.6 MB
Uncompressed: 441,139.1 MB
Compressed: 87,220.5 MB
Compression Ratio: 80.23%”
-- SQL safe User,
“I have installed SQL safe and backed up a small database (4.9 GB) which normally takes up 570 MB space on local disk, now it went to 82 MB - very nice. The amount of time to complete the backup also went from 4 minutes to 1 minute!”
-- SQL safe User,
“I just did a backup of one of our larger production databases. The 194 GB database compressed to 67 GB with SQL safe 5.0. With SQL safe 6.0 it went down to 45 GB. The backup time also went from 1 hour and 48 minutes down to 1 hour and 17 minutes.”
-- SQL safe User,
“With SQL safe 6.0, the backup time went from 1.5 hours to .5 hours! I also saved about 5 GB of backup disk as well!”
-- SQL safe User,
“SQL safe 6.0 really impressed me. We were using a competing product, but SQL safe was able to compress both substantially smaller and faster.”
-- SQL safe User,
“The difference between 89.34% and 92.25% compression may not sound like much, but in my case that extra 2.91% that I get with SQL safe 6.0 saves me 16 GB per backup.”
-- SQL safe User,
“I did a test of SQL safe 6.0 and compared it to the current version we have on our production system. The results are:
Compression: Old = 75%, New = 81%
Time: Old = 3:45:00, New 1:48:00
Database size: 268 GB
Impressive gains!”
-- SQL safe user,
“We use a high percentage of incompressible images in our database and I thought that compressing a backup would provide little benefit. I was pleasantly suprised to find that SQL safe 6.0 halved the size of my backup.”
-- SQL safe User,
“The compression in SQL safe 6.0 is highly impressive. We are placing an order.”
-- SQL safe User,
“We use a 3rd party competitive product to SQL safe. However, after installing SQL safe 6.0 and watching its IntelliCompress2 adjust to my production server's environment and produce a far smaller and faster database backup than I had seen before; I am impressed.”
-- SQL safe User,
