Best Database Performance Tuning Tools for SQL Server
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This a list of Database Performance Tuning tools that integrate with SQL Server. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with SQL Server. View the products that work with SQL Server in the table below.
What are Database Performance Tuning Tools for SQL Server?
Database performance tuning tools are software tools that optimize database performance and efficiency. They analyze query execution, indexing, and resource utilization to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements. These tools often provide real-time monitoring, performance diagnostics, and automated recommendations to enhance speed and reduce latency. They support a wide range of databases, including SQL, NoSQL, and cloud-based systems, ensuring optimal resource usage. By using these tools, businesses can improve application responsiveness, reduce downtime, and maintain a high-performing data environment. Compare and read user reviews of the best Database Performance Tuning tools for SQL Server currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Studio 3T
Studio 3T
Auto-complete queries in a built-in mongo shell that highlights syntax errors as you type and saves your query history. Perfect for MongoDB beginners, a time-saver for pros. Use a drag-and-drop UI to build complex find() queries and filter array elements. Break down aggregation queries into manageable steps and build them stage by stage, for easier debugging and querying. Generate instant code in JavaScript (Node.js), Java (2.x and 3.x driver API), Python, C#, PHP, and Ruby from MongoDB and SQL queries that you can copy and paste into your application. Save MongoDB imports, exports, data comparisons, and migrations as tasks that you can run on demand. Or even better, skip the reminders and schedule them to run exactly when you need them. Make changes to your collection’s schema in just a few clicks, perfect for schema performance tuning, restructuring, or cleaning up after data migration.Starting Price: $499/year/user -
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DataGrip
JetBrains
Meet DataGrip, our new database IDE that is tailored to suit the specific needs of professional SQL developers. Allows you to execute queries in different modes and provides a local history that keeps track of all your activity and protects you from losing your work. Lets you jump to any table, view, or procedure by its name via the corresponding action, or directly from its usages in the SQL code. Gives you an extended insight into how your queries work and into the database engine behavior, so you can make your queries more efficient. DataGrip provides context-sensitive code completion, helping you to write SQL code faster. Completion is aware of the tables structure, foreign keys, and even database objects created in code you're editing. DataGrip detects probable bugs in your code and suggests the best options to fix them on the fly. It will immediately let you know about unresolved objects, using keywords as identifiers and always offers a way to fix the problems.Starting Price: $199 per year -
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dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a comprehensive platform with an intuitive graphical user interface and robust functionality that enables users to handle a variety of database-related tasks both on-premises and in the cloud. Key Features: T-SQL editor with intelligent code completion, debugging, formatting, and more Database schema and data comparison and synchronization Source Control with support for all popular version control systems Visual database designer with ER diagrams. Visual Query Builder for constructing complex T-SQL queries Data import and export Data generator of high-quality test data Real-time database monitoring Query Profiler with analysis and optimization Data analysis, visualization, and reporting Automatic database documenting Task automation via the Command line dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a powerful alternative to SSMS. It offers the features of the default SQL Server IDE along with many additional tools and options.Starting Price: $229.95
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SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy SQL Server and Windows.Starting Price: $1,996 per instance -
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SQL Sentry
SolarWinds
Stop wasting time trying to fix SQL Server performance problems. Are you constantly fighting database performance fires, looking in vain for the root cause of SQL Server slowdowns? Without the right information, you could waste valuable time looking in the wrong places for the answers to your performance problems. You need accurate, actionable, detailed metrics to quickly identify and address database problems. With SQL Sentry, you can effectively monitor, diagnose, and optimize your entire database environment. SQL Sentry helps you get out of fire-fighting mode so you can keep your databases running continuously at peak performance. SQL Sentry gives you the level of detail you need to find and fix SQL Server performance problems. SQL Sentry is the flagship product in the SentryOne monitoring solutions set, and was built by SQL Server experts to help you save time and frustration in troubleshooting database performance problems.Starting Price: $1,628 -
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dbForge Edge
Devart
dbForge Edge is the newest Devart product - the multidatabase software solution covers all database-related jobs, allowing its users to accelerate the tasks' completion, save costs, and improve overall productivity. A set of powerful features applies to all most popular database management systems - MySQL and MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Notice the most helpful features of dbForge Edge: Database design & development. Convert ER diagrams to actual databases or reverse-engineer databases. SQL coding assistance. Visual query building. Query profiling. Database comparison & synchronization. Deploy changes to the target databases on different platforms. Data management. Data import/export. Data analysis and reporting. Database administration.Starting Price: $99.95 -
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SQL Query Tuner
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Query Tuner helps database administrators to tune and profile SQL code for SQL Server. Unlike its competition, it provides automated SQL tuning and performance optimization suggestions with color-coded index analysis, database profiling of wait-time analysis for a single stored routine or an entire data source, SQL stress load testing to simulate a production environment with parallel users and executions over a specific period of time or execution cycle, and review of SQL execution and performance costs using explain plans.Starting Price: $400 per instance -
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DB Optimizer
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
DB Optimizer helps database administrators to tune and profile SQL code across database platforms. Unlike its competition, it provides automated SQL tuning and performance optimization suggestions with color-coded index analysis, database profiling of wait-time analysis for a single stored routine or an entire data source, SQL stress load testing to simulate a production environment with parallel users and executions over a specific period of time or execution cycle, and review of SQL execution and performance costs using explain plans.Starting Price: $572 per user (workstation_ -
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DB PowerStudio
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
Administer, manage changes, tune queries, and develop relational databases. Database professionals need to minimize the time and effort spent on the routine management and development of databases across the organization. To address this challenge, benefit from IDERA’s bundle of top tools for the management and development of multiple database platforms. Perform database administration. Automate and manage complex database schema changes. Automate SQL query tuning and profiling. Develop SQL code efficiently.Starting Price: $1,699.20 per user -
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Redgate SQL Toolbelt
Redgate
The industry-standard tools for SQL Server development & deployment. Redgate's SQL Toolbelt contains 13 industry-standard products for SQL Server development, backup, and monitoring. Together, they make you productive, your team agile, and your data safe. Thousands of SQL Server professionals rely on the SQL Toolbelt every day, because it's reliable, easy to use, and plugs in to tools they already use for application development. View a full history of changes, including who changed what, when, and why. Explore changes made by your colleagues with SQL Compare Pro. Share changes with the rest of your team using SQL Source Control. View a full history of changes, including who changed what, when, and why. See the direct impact of your deployment on your SQL Server performance when using any of the deployment tools within the SQL Toolbelt. Releases with SQL Compare or SQL Change Automation are marked in SQL Monitor next to key performance metrics.Starting Price: $3665 -
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EMS SQL Management Studio
EMS Software
EMS SQL Management Studio for PostgreSQL is a complete solution for PostgreSQL database administration and development. The single workbench provides you with must-have tools for managing PostgreSQL databases and objects, as well as for database design, migration, extraction, query building, data import and export, database comparison, and running service tasks. Get access to all databases and their objects from a single console and manage them with a user-friendly interface. You can create and modify all server and database objects, set necessary properties, and view detailed info in advanced visual editors. Transfer structure changes from development to production database automatically with Compare databases tool. Create ER diagrams for newly developed databases to quickly deploy them. Create database maintenance tasks with advanced options and let SQL Studio run them on a regular basis.Starting Price: $260 one-time payment -
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EverSQL
EverSQL
EverSQL is the fastest way to optimize your PostgreSQL & MySQL databases automatically. It's used by over 100,000 engineers as a PostgreSQL & MySQL optimizer, to optimize SQL queries. Our customers report their queries are 25X faster on average, just minutes after getting started. Save your team 140 weekly hours on average by optimizing your SQL queries online for free. EverSQL is 100% non-intrusive, and doesn't access any of your databases' sensitive data. Choose your database type, the platform, and submit a query for optimization. Then, install the performance sensor for ongoing performance insights. Smart AI-based algorithms will optimize your PostgreSQL and MySQL queries by automatically re-writing and indexing them. EverSQL will tell you exactly what changed and how the magic works. EverSQL's non-intrusive sensor will monitor your PostgreSQL and MySQL databases performance on an ongoing basis, generate optimization insights that are quick and easy to understand and implement.Starting Price: $129 per month -
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SQL Index Manager
Redgate Software
SQL Index Manager lets you quickly and easily find out the status of your indexes and discover which databases need maintenance. You can do maintenance through the UI, or generate a T-SQL script to run in SQL Server Management Studio. Detect index fragmentation to get a full report on indexes across your databases, including the severity of fragmentation and the reasons for it. Fix fragmentation by choosing which indexes to fix based on fragmentation severity – SQL Index Manager will perform the operation for you. Reorganize or rebuild by setting which action to take, based on customizable rebuild and reorganization thresholds, and rebuild indexes online with SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Analyze over time by exporting the results of your analysis to track and report on fragmentation. Generate scripts by automatically generating T-SQL scripts to fix fragmentation. Start rebuilding or reorganizing selected indexes with a single click.Starting Price: $242 per user -
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SQL Manager
EMS Software
SQL Manager for PostgreSQL provides a set of easy-to-use visual editors for any database or server objects. You can create complex queries visually or use editor tool with code completion, code folding, formatting and many other useful features. You can adjust editor view to meet your requirements. Query results can be easily exported to any format. Manipulate data with filters, grouping, sorting and sub-levels, view it as JSON, Image or XML and export it into any of popular formats, including XLSX, CSV, TXT, XML, SQL and more. Advanced import from MS Excel, MS Access, DBF, XML, ODF, TXT, CSV, etc. with selecting the method of adding data to the already existing tables, as well as processing or replacing of inserted data. Data export into a variety of popular formats: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, HTML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, XML, ODF and more with flexible setting for the result data view. -
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ApexSQL
Quest Software
We strive to ensure that all of our tools are “Best of class” in their respective category. We pride ourselves on our product support which we are frequently told is the best in our industry. We are constantly innovating, releasing new features and new tools on an aggressive schedule. Auditing and masking capabilities to keep sensitive data safe, discover and manage SQL Server instances and perform health and security checks. Achieve dramatic reductions in SQL Server backup/restore times and storage costs. Choose the best combination of CPU resource utilization and backup storage size reduction for your environment with eight compression levels. Ensure that no data or structure changes are lost during backup restores by capturing transactions made during the backup process and replaying them. Rollback truncate operation and recover lost data.
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