We performed a comparison between CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS and SQL Sentry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is very stable. We have had no issues."
"The most important features are batch reporting and the ability to create repositories, enabling automated analysis. These are valuable because they enable me to do automated analysis of trends over time and reduce the time for comparing performance between two periods to identify anomalies."
"It helps us to reduce hardware costs and to optimize processing times."
"It takes advantage of new features of DB2."
"Improved monitoring and performance management."
"To be able to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times is the most valuable feature of the product."
"This solution has identified blocking, deadlock, memory pressure, and high CPU consumption issues."
"All the information we need, we could use to have it in a more usable format."
"They need to provide a way to create and maintain performance repositories. The online tool is not perfect, but it is giving me what I need."
"Minor stability issues."
"If we can get details on wait types from system views, it will help identify a more detailed root cause."
"There could be some more metrics on the high availability to let us know when there are issues synchronizing between the hosts."
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CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is ranked 30th in Database Development and Management while SQL Sentry is ranked 8th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is rated 8.8, while SQL Sentry is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS writes "The most useful feature is the ability to create strategies across the products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Sentry writes "Lets you know when your jobs are taking longer than average and allows you to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times". CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is most compared with , whereas SQL Sentry is most compared with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, Quest Spotlight, Redgate SQL Toolbelt and Quest Foglight for Databases. See our CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS vs. SQL Sentry report.
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