Comments on: Are You Using Your 3rd Party Tools? http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/are-you-using-your-3rd-party-tools/ Ramblings Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:50:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: chrisshaw http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/are-you-using-your-3rd-party-tools/#comment-277 chrisshaw Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:14:33 +0000 http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/are-you-using-your-3rd-party-tools/#comment-277 Hasib, Very Valid opinion. I know many people that have done that. I have not seen any problems with performance at all with Performance Advisor, and I was running it on a system that had performance problems. Chris Hasib,

Very Valid opinion. I know many people that have done that. I have not seen any problems with performance at all with Performance Advisor, and I was running it on a system that had performance problems.

Chris

]]> By: Hasib http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/are-you-using-your-3rd-party-tools/#comment-274 Hasib Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:18:36 +0000 http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/are-you-using-your-3rd-party-tools/#comment-274 I prefer using SQL native tools which are just enhanced for ease of use by the third party tools. I have used several 3rd party tools and after evaluation I found Idera SQLdm was nice enough since it had no agent installed on server as such avoiding any i/o overhead since most of the tools actually slow down the apps instead of helping them perform better. Just my two cents. I prefer using SQL native tools which are just enhanced for ease of use by the third party tools. I have used several 3rd party tools and after evaluation I found Idera SQLdm was nice enough since it had no agent installed on server as such avoiding any i/o overhead since most of the tools actually slow down the apps instead of helping them perform better.

Just my two cents.

]]> By: chrisshaw http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/are-you-using-your-3rd-party-tools/#comment-260 chrisshaw Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:55:40 +0000 http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/are-you-using-your-3rd-party-tools/#comment-260 Mary, Hi I really liked the way that Performance Advisor kept it history and it was really easy to change between a historical mode and a live mode. From what I have used with Spotlight in the past there was an overhead in using the tool. Now I have not used spotlight recently so I can not speak to the overhead of it at this time. I hope that answers your question. Thanks, Chris Mary,

Hi I really liked the way that Performance Advisor kept it history and it was really easy to change between a historical mode and a live mode. From what I have used with Spotlight in the past there was an overhead in using the tool. Now I have not used spotlight recently so I can not speak to the overhead of it at this time. I hope that answers your question.

Thanks,
Chris

]]> By: Mary Lee http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/are-you-using-your-3rd-party-tools/#comment-258 Mary Lee Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:42:59 +0000 http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/are-you-using-your-3rd-party-tools/#comment-258 Hi Chris, What was your reasoning for choosing SQL Sentry Performance Advisor over Questsoftware's Spotlight? Did you find one better than the other? Thanks, Mary Hi Chris,

What was your reasoning for choosing SQL Sentry Performance Advisor over Questsoftware’s Spotlight? Did you find one better than the other?

Thanks,
Mary

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