We performed a comparison between CA Datacom 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."Nowadays, CA is doing a lot of improving as far as online maintainability of definitions, which is a huge improvement over the past. I'm able to do a lot of changes without any outage."
"Scalability is definitely one thing. The size of the database can grow without any issues. We've got one database table that's got over a billion rows in it; quite a bit of data, and it handles access like a champ."
"It definitely cuts down on our support costs. I do not get woken up in the middle of the night very often for a problem with Datacom."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward for a mainframe product."
"It is a solid product."
"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."
"The only minor issue that we have had with Datacom is in the installation guide: Some of the sizings for the databases have not really worked out for us, so we had to go in and resize them."
"For the "no-outage maintainability" of things, they are making improvements as we speak, but there is definitely still room for more of that."
"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 Datacom is ranked 33rd in Database Development and Management while SQL Sentry is ranked 8th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. CA Datacom is rated 9.0, while SQL Sentry is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of CA Datacom writes "It is like a black box type of product. We just set it up and it runs". 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 Datacom is most compared with CA IDMS, 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 Datacom vs. SQL Sentry report.
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