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News Room
Our news room includes recent product reviews, press releases, and external blogs about SQL Sentry software. Also
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Performance Advisor for Analysis Services...is hands down the best SSAS monitoring tool available
"Well, as with most things in SSAS, its not AS EASY when compared to the server's relational sibling. I begin with the easiest approach: tools.There are a few available tools that one can use to view and manage SSAS activity. First and foremost is that of SQLSentry's Performance Advisor for Analysis Services. This tool is hands down the best SSAS monitoring tool available. SQLSentry clearly filled a large void in the SSAS world."
-- Derek Comingore, SQL Server MVP, B.I. Voyage
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Feb. 14, 2010 |
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SQL Sentry Performance Advisor for Analysis Services Named
2009 Editors’ Best Award Winner by SQL Server Magazine
"We are honored to have Performance Advisor for Analysis Services recognized so quickly by the editorial experts of these industry leading publications," said Greg Gonzalez, President and CEO of SQL Sentry. "Since the launch of this product less than six months ago, we’ve received many accolades from customers and industry experts for delivering new capabilities to manage and tune Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services."
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Nov. 24, 2009 |
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SQL Sentry Announces Performance Optimization Software
for SQL Server Analysis Services
SQL Sentry Performance Advisor for Analysis Services provides unparalleled insight into Analysis Services performance, including bottlenecks related to memory and storage systems, aggregation usage, unoptimized queries, and query and processing tasks competing for the same resources. And when combined with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor for SQL Server and Event Manager, provides the only solution in the market covering Microsoft’s entire BI platform, including the relational data warehouse (SQL Server), Analysis Services (SSAS), Integration Services (SSIS), and Reporting Services (SSRS).
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Jul. 14, 2009 |
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SQL Sentry Introduces First Analysis Services Monitoring Solution
"I’m currently in Germany at the PASS European Conference....for the last few months I’ve also been talking to the guys at SQL Sentry – who are also here exhibiting – about their new product called Performance Advisor for Analysis Services which has just been made public. I’ve had an in-depth demo and my first impression is that this is the first Analysis Services monitoring solution that I would actually want to use; it looks really, really good. I believe SQL Sentry has the first solution that will monitor the SQL Server relational engine, Analysis Services, SSIS and SSRS as well."
-- Chris Webb, IT Consultant, UK
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Apr. 24, 2009 |
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Monitoring Your Servers: Data Collection vs. Performance Advisor
"In SQL Server 2008 we get Data Collection, a built-in framework for collecting and analyzing performance and other metrics from multiple servers...I thought it would be useful to compare some of the features with a 3rd party tool that I use in my environment, Performance Advisor from SQL Sentry....Performance Advisor goes above and beyond in the disk usage report category, providing disk capacity statistics like Data Collection does, and adding real-time disk activity views that show exactly where the I/Os are coming and going."
-- Aaron Bertand, SQL Server MVP
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Mar. 19, 2009 |
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Are You Using Your 3rd Party Tools?
"There are a number of reasons why I like Performance Advisor, the cool dashboard, the ease of being able to see the history and change back to what is going on right now,
and the ability to see if you have a bottle neck on your disk drives. I thought that I knew all there was to know about the tool. Then I discovered
the Quick Trace...I have to admit that Quick Trace is now my favorite part of Performance Advisor."
-- SQLonCall, Chris Shaw
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Jan. 12, 2009 |
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So, What WAS That Tool?
"I wrote about some performance issues we
were chasing. The issues were revolving around a symptom of disk
queues growing, system performance lagging in spurts, etc. The folks over at SQL Sentry jumped on that
and helped us out - they helped show off their new performance dashboard and at the same time shine some serious light on our server and the issues we were seeing."
-- Stephen Wynkoop, SQL Server Worldwide Users Group
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Oct. 02, 2008 |
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Performance Advisor: A Quick "Two Thumbs Up"
"I have been playing with Performance Advisor, the new companion to the very popular Event Manager software from SQL Sentry. Right off the bat, I can tell you that this tool should have [the competition] shaking in their boots, as it is really going to give them a run for their money. While a late comer to this segment of the market, Performance Advisor has definitely been worth the wait."
-- SQLBlog.com, Aaron Bertand, SQL Server MVP
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Jul. 15, 2008 |
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SQL Sentry Announces New Performance Monitoring and Optimization Tool
SQL Sentry Performance Advisor is packed with many ground-breaking features, not found in any other software, all designed to simplify the process of optimizing SQL Server performance. Performance Advisor represents over two years of research and development by the same team that brought you the innovative, award-winning SQL Sentry Event Manager.
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Jun. 06, 2008 |
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SQL Sentry "Best Of Tech•Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards Finalist"
SQL Sentry Event Manager was named as a finalist of the "Best of Tech•Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards" in the Database Administration category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®. The Best of Tech•Ed 2008 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products in the industry. The judges reviewed over 220 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists.
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May 21, 2008 |
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Manage SQL Databases
"The larger and more complex your infrastructure, the more you need to be concerned with maintenance and operational tasks interfering with each other. This can lead to process flow havoc for your end users. Fortunately, there are a few tools available for the database and system administrator to help coordinate a complex environment's schedules. One tool that you may want to consider is SQL Sentry Event Manager."
-- TechNet Magazine, Greg Steen
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Mar. 01, 2008 |
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SQL Sentry Event Manager Product Review
"As a DBA in today's 24x7 world, managing multiple SQL Servers can be quite a challenge. Having an arsenal of tools by your side that can help you save time is a must. Fortunately, a tool is available on the market to help take some of the stress out of your life. SQL Sentry Event Manager provides you with a tool that enables you to manage all of your SQL Server jobs across your entire infrastructure from one single point of entry."
-- Database Journal, Steven Warren
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Dec. 18, 2007 |
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Pragmatic Works Joins SQL Sentry Partner Program
"SQL Sentry Event Manager is the one tool that can really change an organization and simplify the DBA’s daily life. If you're concerned about the bottom-line support costs of your servers, this is a must-have tool," said Brian Knight, Founder and Managing Partner of Pragmatic Works. "You'll never know how you lived without Event Manager. It's truly a required tool in the effective DBA's arsenal."
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Sep. 18, 2007 |
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Professional Association for SQL Server
(PASS) selects Event Manager
"The growth of our organization’s membership and several new technology initiatives have placed large demands on our underlying enterprise. SQL Sentry Event Manager allows our DBA team at MaximumASP to see, understand and manage SQL Server more efficiently than the native tools" said Rushabh Mehta, Director of Technology for PASS.
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Sep. 17, 2007 |
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Know What's Happening: Keep Tabs on your SQL Server Jobs
"We've all been in situations where we spend a great deal of time navigating the complicated Web of inter-server SQL Agent jobs to find resource contention and scheduling problems. When you add the layer of complexity that many SQL Agent jobs simply run DTS or SSIS packages, the problem becomes even greater. One of the few third-party devices available to help with this task is SQL Sentry Event Manager."
-- Redmond Magazine, Joshua Jones
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Sep. 01, 2007 |
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SharePointHosting.com Leads with SQL Sentry Event Manager
Leading Microsoft SharePoint Host Leverages Event Manager to Optimize SQL Server. "SQL Sentry Event Manager allows our DBA team to monitor and maintain SQL Server in a fraction of the usual time and focus on the more strategic tasks of balancing our dynamic growth while keeping our recognized quality of service standards high," said Larry Strange, CEO of SharePointHosting.com.
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Jul. 27, 2007 |
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SQL Sentry Event Manager Earns Platinum Award, SQL Server Magazine
SQL Sentry Event Manager earns
platinum award in
the Database Management Tools category. "The 2007 Editor’s Choice Awards utilize our editors' product knowledge and subject matter expertise to identify exceptional products that have been covered in the pages of SQL Server Magazine and its online newsletters, and which benefit the SQL Server Magazine reader community," said Kim Paulsen, group publisher.
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Jul. 24, 2007 |
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MaximumASP Raises the Bar on SQL Server Hosting with Event Manager
Before Event Manager, we used the burdensome process of specialized scripts and manual documentation to manage our job schedules. We also tried a collection of different third-party products, but nothing exhibited a true understanding of what DBAs really need. I can't imagine going back to the old methods or using some of the less comprehensive competing products in an attempt to tackle the same problems.
-- DM Review Magazine, Sarah Barela
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Jul. 01, 2007 |
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SQL Sentry Announces Competitive Upgrade Promotion
Database administrators can trade in any job scheduling, alerting or automation software tool and receive SQL Sentry Event Manager for free. "This is an opportunity for organizations to upgrade from tools that may no longer be satisfying their needs, to the award winning and proven power of SQL Sentry Event Manager." said Nick Harshbarger, Director of Sales and Marketing at SQL Sentry.
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May 23, 2007 |
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SQL Sentry Announces New Partner in South Africa
"SQL Sentry Event Manager enables our clients to maximize the return on their investment in SQL Server and Oracle," said Dereck Ramsay, Managing Director of Irridium. "Event Manager allows their DBAs to strategically manage their job schedules in a fraction of the time that the native tools require. Plus Event Manager enables them to better schedule, manage and monitor their critical backups."
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Apr. 30, 2007 |
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Save Time (and Money) With SQL Sentry Event Manager
"As a DBA, the first thing you do in your database environment is check the jobs that ran the previous day. Just imagine the trouble this can cause in multi-server environments. Things become frustrating when your servers are located around the globe. From the
(Event Manager) calendar view, you can visualize all the jobs on all the servers in your enterprise at once, which helps you uncover conflicts. I highly recommend Event Manager."
-- SQL Server Performance.com, Dinesh Asanka
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Apr. 01, 2007 |
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Event Manager for SQL Server Product Review
"You could think of Event Manager for SQL Server as SQL Agent on steroids, but its functionally actually goes far beyond SQL Agent. One of SQL Sentry's most valuable features for the DBA is the all-devices global calendar view, which gives you a big picture of your enterprise job execution schedule. Event Manager is a must-have product for DBAs who need to manage a large number of jobs across multiple systems."
-- SQL Server Magazine, Michael Otey
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Mar. 01, 2007 |
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Event Manager, SQL Server Performance and Tuning ‘Product of the Year’
"The product's display is the key to its success," according to SearchSQLServer.com.
"Its customizable interface allows simultaneous display of calendars, graphs and controls to fit the users' needs. In a large enterprise SQL Server quickly becomes difficult to manage -- especially the SQL Server jobs. Event Manager is indispensable for managing jobs and for providing alerting."
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Jan. 17, 2007 |
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