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DPA to trust your database
What do you like best about the product?
When a SQL Server database instance includes Availability Groups (AGs), the DPA homepage provides the following information:
The AG status icon AG_status_icons.png identifies database instances that include AGs. An AG status summary box shows the number of database instances with partially healthy or unhealthy AGs. As with other status summary boxes, click the filter next to a status to display only those instances.
The AG status icon AG_status_icons.png identifies database instances that include AGs. An AG status summary box shows the number of database instances with partially healthy or unhealthy AGs. As with other status summary boxes, click the filter next to a status to display only those instances.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alerting needs to be more promising
Custom Report for Resources for a Program in DPA
Automatic exporting for DPA logs should be added into newer versions
Custom Report for Resources for a Program in DPA
Automatic exporting for DPA logs should be added into newer versions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its ease of use makes itself more prompt than the other tools.
The application is mostly used for the AWS environments.
Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.5) is not supported with DPA 10.2.579
The application is mostly used for the AWS environments.
Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.5) is not supported with DPA 10.2.579
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great tool!!!
Ease of access
Ease of use
Easy to deploy
Very light weight
Data integrity is maintained
Ease of access
Ease of use
Easy to deploy
Very light weight
Data integrity is maintained
Best SQL and Azure Analyzer for the price
What do you like best about the product?
The fact it handled Azure as well as on-premise database analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
While it handles Azure currently, it is new and is missing some features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped show when records are locked and determine the root cause of problems we have encountered. It has show us when it is necessary to adjust the resources in Azure to help lower cost.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This works great when used with other SolarWinds products. They integrate so well and make it easy to analyze the data for various angles. It is a strong product when used alone as well.
DPA to the rescue
What do you like best about the product?
Capability to overlay DB performance statistics with hardware metrics KPIs
What do you dislike about the product?
It does not yet provide full integration with Orion platform, so switching between main Orion console and DPA console is required for deep troubleshooting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Slow response times for paying customers due to database wait times. Changed application designed to improve end user & customer experience
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This may not provide as deep insight into Oracle DB as more native tools, but it provides the capability of overlaying DB stats with hardware and OS stats. Same goes for SQL monitoring and our DBAs are very pleased with this tool
DPA really made my job of sorting through database to know the speed and health easy.
What do you like best about the product?
I like how DPA leverage all my S3 databases
What do you dislike about the product?
Sincerely there's no good software without a disadvantage. But I have not seen anything you should improove on except the pricing. That might be because of the country I'm in.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's very tasky to statcally connect to every database everytime I want to manage, DPA helps in managing all of my databases simultaneously.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
it is the best solution for anyone with dificulty in managing database expecially those just learning.
Database administration and performance troubleshooter
What do you like best about the product?
Quick visual of performance bottlenecks and the drill down within every screen is a great feature in trying to get to the bottom of fixing an error troubleshooting query performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
If we can get more tips on database related messages as it seems the recommendations are sometimes very general in nature
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DPA has helped me get to the bottom of a long standing performance issue with a client ERP on SQL server and we have now stabilized the performance. DPA showed me where and which time the major bottlenecks where coming from. Now we can move to tuning the queries with DPA.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
DPA is easy to install and very lightweight so no worries on the analyzed database or instance taking a performance hit.
An extremely helpful tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like the one stop analysis, this allows us to more efficiently manage our databases
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any complaints at this time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ensuring efficient use and access to databases
Works very well for the situation we have
What do you like best about the product?
The fact we can monitor multiple things at the same time to make sure that we are running the best we can. I like the integration with other Solarwinds offerings
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing that Im aware of for now. We seem to like it in the review stage. Seems like it will do exactly what we need it to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making sure everything is running smoothly for managing information
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you know what you are doing :) Love the interface seems to work well
Sometimes the SQL is better than the original
What do you like best about the product?
I really liked the capability of monitoring the SQL performance of different queries
What do you dislike about the product?
If I had to pick a least favorite piece of the whole process, it would be installing the application in the first place, because no one ever likes that, even though the documentation was very well done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was optimizing queries so that I could have the least amount of server impact
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely download the trial and try running some of your more processor intensive queries and actions. See what the software can really do and see what it is the best at.
A must have tool for DBAs
What do you like best about the product?
Clear overview of multiple servers
Real time monitoring
History views
Pinpoint to trouble queries
Cool reports
Real time monitoring
History views
Pinpoint to trouble queries
Cool reports
What do you dislike about the product?
Custom time interval for Trend view is too restricted, would like to see more days of data beyond 30 day window
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides DBA with clear view of server and database performance and makes it possible to dynamically manage infrastructure resources and pinpoint performance issues quickly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Alerts are not easy to set and we often get false alarms.
DPA Keeps SQL Running Smoothly.
What do you like best about the product?
I love the query advice tab. It is great to have specific issues highlighted and ready for review. The real-time tab is always useful for our help desk team. Solarwinds Thwack user community is full of amazing resources and tips for getting the most out of your DPA install. You really can't say enough about Solarwinds' after install support for their products.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that we only have a single instance licensed. We regularly repoint DPA to whatever database is generating users calls. It'd be much better if we were able to monitor all of our databases at once. Management consistently balks at the cost of additional licensing (this seems to be a regular concern with our Solarwinds products).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My employer does application and database hosting. We recently used DPA to identify an issue with a query more quickly than the 3rd party application developers were able to. Our client was very pleased with our speed to resolution, especially considering the so called experts were still chasing their tails.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is worth comparing this to the Idera offerings. They also do a nice job monitoring SQL performance.
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