May 20, 2008

SQL Sentry Event Manager was named as a finalist of the "Best of Tech-Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards" in the Database Administration category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. The Best of Tech-Ed 2008 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products in the industry. The judges reviewed over 220 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech-Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference in Orlando, Fla. Winners will be announced on June 12, 2008.

Jul. 24, 2007

SQL Sentry Event Manager attained the premiere position in the diverse Database Management Tools category when compared to not only other software products, but software suites that contain multiple products... "The 2007 Editor’s Choice Awards utilize our editors' product knowledge and subject matter expertise to identify exceptional products that have been covered in the pages of SQL Server Magazine and its online newsletters, and which benefit the SQL Server Magazine reader community," said Kim Paulsen, group publisher. "Our editors are tough, in-the-trenches critics," Paulsen continued.

Jan. 16, 2007

"...The product's display is the key to its success," according SearchSQLServer.com. "Its customizable interface allows simultaneous display of calendars, graphs and controls to fit the users' needs. In a large enterprise SQL Server quickly becomes difficult to manage -- especially the SQL Server jobs. "Event Manager is indispensable for managing jobs and for providing alerting."

Jul. 21, 2006

"...SQL Sentry provides user-friendly job scheduling, giving you an Outlook-style calendar view of SQL Server's job schedule. In addition to job scheduling. SQL Sentry provides flexible MAPI-less alerting and notification capabilities. SQL Sentry can monitor up to 72 different server events, and the software lets administrators choose from up to nine response actions."

Jun. 4, 2006

Review by Brad McGehee
"...if you have many SQL Servers, and especially if your jobs are complex, SQL Sentry will quickly pay for itself in time saved. Implemented correctly, SQL Sentry will help to improve your SQL Server's performance, reduce downtime, lower database administration costs, and reduce hardware and software costs because you will be able to get more out of your existing resources."

Apr. 21, 2006

Review by Stephen Wynkoop, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
"SQL Sentry is a tool to help you better understand and manage what's happening on your servers - from your job subsystems to the interaction between OS-level jobs and SQL Server jobs and beyond. This review goes into what we found as we tested and used the software on our own servers."

Jan. 12, 2006

Review by Brian Knight, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
"...SQL Sentry 2.5 is unlike any tool on the market for the SQL Server DBA and I could not find a competitor. I can not think of any way for a DBA to save more time than with a job management system like SQL Sentry."

Sep. 4, 2005

"SQL Sentry's alerting capability lets DBAs eliminate SQL Mail, receive more-detailed messages, and even vary responses by condition. The tool also offers graph and chart reporting of performance statistics and information about possible conflicts."

"SQL Sentry does it again in job automation, this time winning by a 500 percent margin over its next-closest competitor."