SQL Sentry Performance Advisor for Analysis Services has been honored as the 2009 Editors’ Best Database Monitoring and Performance Product by Penton Media’s SQL Server Magazine.

"What I most appreciate about Performance Advisor for Analysis Services is that it lets you monitor SQL Server Analysis Services’ (SSAS’) resource utilization in real-time mode or historic mode, then easily troubleshoot bottlenecks from its intuitive Performance Dashboard for SSAS. It also offers monitoring and alerting for SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Integration Services, so you can keep an eye on your entire BI platform from one console," said  Megan Keller, associate editor, SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro.

"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."

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 to be interviewed at the Tech-Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference in Orlando, Fla. Winners will be announced on June 12, 2008.

"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."

"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."

"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."

SQL Sentry Event Manager attained the premiere position in the diverse Database Management Tools category when compared to not only other software products, but software suites that contain multiple products... "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. "Our editors are tough, in-the-trenches critics," Paulsen continued.

"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."

"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."

"...The product's display is the key to its success," according 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."

"...SQL Sentry provides user-friendly job scheduling, giving you an Outlook-style calendar view of SQL Server's job schedule. In addition to job scheduling. SQL Sentry provides flexible MAPI-less alerting and notification capabilities. SQL Sentry can monitor up to 72 different server events, and the software lets administrators choose from up to nine response actions."

Review by Brad McGehee
"...if you have many SQL Servers, and especially if your jobs are complex, SQL Sentry will quickly pay for itself in time saved. Implemented correctly, SQL Sentry will help to improve your SQL Server's performance, reduce downtime, lower database administration costs, and reduce hardware and software costs because you will be able to get more out of your existing resources."

Review by Stephen Wynkoop, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
"SQL Sentry is a tool to help you better understand and manage what's happening on your servers - from your job subsystems to the interaction between OS-level jobs and SQL Server jobs and beyond. This review goes into what we found as we tested and used the software on our own servers."

Review by Brian Knight, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
"...SQL Sentry 2.5 is unlike any tool on the market for the SQL Server DBA and I could not find a competitor. I can not think of any way for a DBA to save more time than with a job management system like SQL Sentry."

"SQL Sentry's alerting capability lets DBAs eliminate SQL Mail, receive more-detailed messages, and even vary responses by condition. The tool also offers graph and chart reporting of performance statistics and information about possible conflicts."

"SQL Sentry does it again in job automation, this time winning by a 500 percent margin over its next-closest competitor."