IDERA Precise for Databases vs. SQL Inventory Manager vs. SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines vs. python-sql Comparison Chart

Precise for Databases helps database administrators to find and fix database performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides deep database optimization, isolation of problems and causes, scalable deployment, what-if analysis for changes, and history, trending, and planning. Precise for Databases ensures that databases perform at peak efficiency. It captures, measures, and correlates performance metrics from all critical components of the system. It then detects and corrects the root cause of database and transaction performance problems before they become noticeable for databases and their related applications. Monitor Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM Db2, and SAP Sybase ASE. For each of these database platforms, the interface of Precise looks and behaves the same to minimize the learning curve. Precise for Databases samples the monitored databases once per second or more frequently, has low overhead (typically 1%).

Migrate your SQL Server workloads to the cloud to get the performance and security of SQL Server combined with the flexibility and hybrid connectivity of Azure. Lower your total cost of ownership (TCO)1 and get free, built-in security and automated management when you register your virtual machines (VMs) with the SQL Server IaaS Agent extension at no extra cost. Save time with seamless post-deployment conversions—there's no need for production redeployment. Lower your ongoing operational costs with automatic image maintenance, updates, and patches. Simple, familiar SQL Server for versatile virtual machines.