Best SQL Server Software for Azure SQL Database

Compare the Top SQL Server Software that integrates with Azure SQL Database as of July 2025

This a list of SQL Server software that integrates with Azure SQL Database. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Azure SQL Database. View the products that work with Azure SQL Database in the table below.

What is SQL Server Software for Azure SQL Database?

SQL server software is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that allows businesses to store, manage, and retrieve data in structured formats using Structured Query Language (SQL). These platforms provide a robust and scalable solution for handling large volumes of data, enabling users to create, read, update, and delete data within relational databases. SQL server software includes features for data storage, transaction management, data security, backup, and performance optimization, ensuring data integrity and availability. It supports a range of applications from small businesses to enterprise-level solutions, offering integration with other business tools and systems. SQL server software is often used in applications requiring high-performance data storage, reporting, and analytics capabilities. Compare and read user reviews of the best SQL Server software for Azure SQL Database currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

    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

    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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    SQL Doctor

    SQL Doctor

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    SQL Doctor helps database administrators to tune SQL Server performance, security, and disaster recovery via expert recommendations in physical, virtual, and cloud environments - including managed cloud databases. Unlike its competitors, it provides display health of all SQL Servers, generation of ready-to-run SQL scripts to optimize and undo optimization, limiting of analysis to specified databases, applications, and performance categories, and real-time, as-needed, and scheduled checkups.
    Starting Price: $500 per user
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    SQL Inventory Manager

    SQL Inventory Manager

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    SQL Inventory Manager helps database administrators to manage SQL Server inventory and assets in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides automatic discovery of SQL Server instances, databases, and analysis services in the network, protection against back level versions and missing security patches, confirmation that instance growth meets your license commitments, quick display of server details to determine license cost, monitor instance health, gathering of hardware, operating system, instance and database configuration details, pre-defined and customizable licensing, inventory, chargeback and health reports, and tags and filters to simplify organization of instances and databases.
    Starting Price: $2,556 for 10 instances
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    SQL Secure

    SQL Secure

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    SQL Secure helps database administrators to manage SQL Server security in physical, virtual, and cloud environments - including managed cloud databases. Unlike its competition, it provides configurable data collection, customizable templates to satisfy audits for multiple regulatory guidelines, extensive security checks and audit rules, automated server registration process, and server group tagging.
    Starting Price: $1,036 per instance
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    DB PowerStudio

    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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    DBA xPress

    DBA xPress

    SolarWinds

    Managing large data estates is challenging. It’s hard to track the dependencies among your databases, particularly if your data estate is constantly changing through growth or acquisitions. Common problems include difficulties understanding the differences among databases, inadequate solutions for comparing data schema, and the inability to track dependencies and connections so that you can successfully manage data, users, and security. DBA xPress simplifies managing large data estates by providing solutions for comparing data schema and browsing through database content: compare databases and synchronize schema and data within them, analyze dependencies and connections among tables, users, functions, and security policies, browse content of SQL Server databases, access the scripts for each object, and export them into an XML file. Automating repetitive tasks can save you time, reduce the risk of human error, and streamline processes.
    Starting Price: $325 per year
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    Azure SQL Edge
    Small-footprint, edge-optimized SQL database engine with built-in AI. Azure SQL Edge, a robust Internet of Things (IoT) database for edge computing, combines capabilities such as data streaming and time series with built-in machine learning and graph features. Extend the industry-leading Microsoft SQL engine to edge devices for consistent performance and security across your entire data estate, from cloud to edge. Develop your applications once and deploy them anywhere across the edge, your on-premises data center, or Azure. Built-in data streaming and time series, with in-database machine learning and graph features for low-latency analytics. Data processing at the edge for online, offline, or hybrid environments to overcome latency and bandwidth constraints. Deploy and update from the Azure portal or your enterprise portal for consistent security and turnkey management. Detect anomalies and apply business logic at the edge using the built-in machine learning capabilities.
    Starting Price: $60 per year
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    Azure SQL Managed Instance
    Part of the Azure SQL family, SQL Managed Instance is an intelligent cloud database service combining the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility (back to SQL Server 2008) with the benefits of a fully managed, up-to-date platform as a service. With your successful assessment on Azure Migrate or Azure Data Studio, confidently modernize your custom and vendor-provided apps to Azure. Stop worrying about updates, upgrades, or end of support. SQL Managed Instance is built on the SQL Server engine, so it's always up to date with the latest SQL features and functionality. Meet your mission-critical requirements up to five times faster while paying up to 93 percent less than AWS RDS. Learn how SQL Managed Instance outperformed across three different benchmarks, spanning transactional and analytics workloads. Accelerate application modernization with the latest managed SQL Server capabilities in the cloud.
    Starting Price: $0.674 per hour
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    Rapid SQL

    Rapid SQL

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    Rapid SQL helps database developers to create high-performing SQL code for multiple database platforms. Unlike its competition, it provides efficient debugging of stored procedures and functions to eliminate coding errors, and the integrated code analyst to perform detailed response time analysis on the execution of stored procedures and functions.
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