IDERA
SQL Server database management software for DBAs, compliance managers, engineers, and dev-
IDERA provides database management software for monitoring, securing, backing up, recovering, and inventorying databases across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its portfolio covers SQL Server, Oracle, Db2, Sybase, and MySQL, with products including SQL Diagnostic Manager, SQL Compliance Manager, SQL Secure, SQL Safe Backup, SQL Inventory Manager, and data modeling tools such as ER/Studio and Aqua Data Studio.
SQL Diagnostic Manager offers performance monitoring with adaptive baselines, deadlock visualization, wait statistics analysis, live session monitoring, forecasting and capacity planning, and alert automation that can trigger scripts, ServiceNow tickets, paging, or SNMP traps. It supports on-premises, VMware and Hyper-V, Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance, AWS RDS, and GCP, and is described as agentless. SQL Compliance Manager handles compliance monitoring, alerts, and reporting; SQL Secure analyzes and reports on security access rights; SQL Safe Backup provides backup and recovery for SQL Server, Azure Blob Storage, and Amazon S3; and SQL Inventory Manager tracks SQL Server assets through a web-based dashboard.
The products are aimed at solo DBAs, database teams, and enterprises managing large numbers of SQL Server instances. IDERA offers free tools, free AI tools, and a 14-day full-feature trial for SQL Diagnostic Manager, along with support plans and product documentation.
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