We performed a comparison between IDERA ER/Studio, IDERA SQL Doctor, and Redgate SQL Toolbelt based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."The reverse engineering is the most important feature."
"We have a database design group of about 15 people. The Repository enables multiple people to work on the same model at the same time. We have fully integrated models, so we have one model for the enterprise data warehouse, one model for MDM, with a lot of sub-models in these things. People work on different parts of the model at different times. So the repository enables us to share the models, and keep track of what everybody is working on."
"The interface is really simple to use and it allows me to pick and choose which tables I want to reverse engineer."
"One of the valuable features is inheritance when joining tables. When setting up RI and domains and rules, ER/Studio does a lot of the grunt, boilerplate code that would otherwise have to be hand-coded."
"We are able to document the data lineage and data flows of our data from one system to another."
"The data modeling module is important to me because I am a database developer and designer... It's very fast, reliable, up-to-date, so easy to use, smooth."
"We have been able to quickly create models for our enterprise-wide databases, even when some of them are third-party databases."
"Straightforward setup."
"You can have multiple scans archived when comparing the tracing from a baseline perspective. Two scans can give us insights concerning the difference between a good and a bad situation."
"It is easy to track the reports, this is what is most valuable for me."
"The most valuable feature is SQL Search."
"What I would like to see improved is the reliability of the releases, releases that are a little less buggy."
"The only thing I had an issue with was licensing, and the support was very good."
"I would like to see better documentation/help for the Data Architect tool. Creation of tutorials would be nice, as there are some features which are not as clearly defined as they should be."
"What needs the most improvement are semantic lineage and usability."
"Tech support is a sticking point with me. I am really disappointed in the tech support. We pay for the Platinum level. It takes hours to get a response."
"It would be helpful if they could create a generic JSON database type, as a target database, rather than a specific one like Mongo."
"We would always like to see Repository performance improve, checking in and checking out."
"The visual presentation is a little too colorful and seems that it is dumbed down."
"SQL Doctor should be improved in Availability Groups, mirroring, and clustering analyses. We mostly see index and query plan analyses. It should be broader than this."
"The biggest problem with the Redgate SQL Toolbelt is just how heavy it is; it seems to take a lot of resources."
"I would like to see the bandwidth increase allowing me to easily analyze more data."
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