jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Sep 12 15:35:49 CDT 2009
Idera is indeed much more than redgate. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Francisco Tapia wrote: > In the end when free works you can't really compete, > > but just as Arthur said, as far as enterprise level reliability and > performance, its difficult to beat out redgate, they price their > products very low compared to the other guys so they are friendly on > the pocketbook, which is something my boss likes. In fact as an fyi I > bought a ton of licenses recently it costs me less to allow my license > for iders diagnostic manager (same # of licenses) to expire and buy > redgate backup 6 with sql response. It would have been more expensive > to renew idera by a noticeable margin. So cost they really compete, > but then I have many sql servers that I manag and I know that can help > with price negotiation > > > > > > On 9/11/09, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: >> Yep, I would but... >> >> It is $800 and I pay for all my own stuff. I can eventually charge it >> through but it takes awhile. >> >> In the meantime I got the free Idera stuff working for now. It is really >> fast, 80-100 mbytes / >> second and compresses down to anywhere from 25% to 40% of the original size. >> >> It took me about 1/2 hour to take the existing TSQL script that they provide >> and wrap it into a >> stored procedure which basically passes in a database to back up, the path >> and the type and off it goes. >> >> That would give me the "gui" and allow me to automate the whole shooting >> match. >> >> I'm happy with what I have right now. >> >> John W. Colby >> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> >> >> Arthur Fuller wrote: >>> >From my own experiments, I don't think anything compares with RedGate's >>> SQL >>> Backup, speed-wise or storage-wise. It's at least twice as fast as the >>> built-in stuff and it takes 1/3 the space required, and it provides the >>> option to copy said backup to any network drive. Works for me! >>> A. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-SQLServer mailing list >>> dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver >>> http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-SQLServer mailing list >> dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver >> http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >