Best Enterprise SQL Server Software of 2025

Compare the Top Enterprise SQL Server Software as of July 2025

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What is Enterprise SQL Server Software?

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 Enterprise SQL Server software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

SolarWinds

Quickly pinpoint performance issues with SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) while providing expert advice with tuning advisors. Anomaly detection powered by machine learning allows DBAs to proactively optimize databases before small issues become big problems. Real-time analysis with 24/7 monitoring and automated alerts provides the time an error occurred instead of just knowing it was “sometime last week.” DPA helps ease the use of more than 20 cross-platform databases in hybrid, on-premises and cloud environments.

2 Ratings

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dbForge Monitor

Devart

dbForge Monitor is a free solution designed to provide comprehensive information about SQL Server performance in real time. It delivers detailed statistics on all essential parameters and specific information for quick identifying and resolving problems. Key Features: - Real-time monitoring for all SQL Server activities, including currently logged users and their applications - Analytical dashboard with a rich collection of metrics - Detecting and optimizing the most expensive queries - Heavy query display, including query text and profiling information - Backup process tracing with key statistics - Detailed statistics about data input/output operations - Summary statistics for all SQL Server databases with essential metrics - Quick identification of resources that are slowing down the server The goal of tool is to provide a comprehensive overview of all servers, databases, and queries, thereby saving many hours of manual work for database specialists.

Starting Price: $0

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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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Redgate SQL Monitor

Redgate Software

SQL Monitor helps you and your team find issues – before they become problems: Alerting – Discover issues before they have an impact Diagnosis – Uncover obstacles and find root causes Performance – See what has the biggest impact on your system Overview – View your SQL Server estate at a glance Reporting – Share tailored reports about your servers' health

Starting Price: $1,565

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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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SQL Defrag Manager

IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

Automatically find and fix database index fragmentation. Database administrators for SQL Server need to maintain the high availability and performance of their databases. Key areas that dramatically affect the performance of SQL Server are indexes that are fragmented and out of cluster. SQL Defrag Manager is a unique solution for defragmenting indexes for SQL Server. It automates the time-consuming process of finding fragmented indexes based on policies for the targeted databases.

Starting Price: $1,196 per instance

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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 Enterprise Job Manager

IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

SQL Enterprise Job Manager helps database administrators to simplify the monitoring and management of SQL Server agent jobs across SQL Servers in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides chaining of jobs to create automated workflows, configurable alert notifications for success and failure of jobs, automation of job scheduling, familiar calendar layout, predefined and custom filters to find specific jobs for analysis, and drill down to see alert settings, upcoming jobs, and history details.

Starting Price: $796 per instance

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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 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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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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SQL Workload Analysis

IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

Monitor and diagnose detailed database wait states and application transactions. Problematic SQL queries can severely reduce the performance of SQL Server and the business-critical applications that it supports. With the SQL Workload Analysis add-on, continuously monitor and analyze server workload, leverage the simple user interface that focuses on wait states and application performance, and troubleshoot problematic SQL code from changes made to database applications. Perform real-time analysis with continuous SQL sampling intervals. Know instantly where databases are spending time. Quickly isolate slow SQL statements and drill down for actionable advice. Investigate historical query plan trends. Utilize automatic recommendations to improve query performance.

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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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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IDERA Precise for Databases

IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

Precise for Databases helps database administrators to find and fix database performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides deep database optimization, isolation of problems and causes, scalable deployment, what-if analysis for changes, and history, trending, and planning. Precise for Databases ensures that databases perform at peak efficiency. It captures, measures, and correlates performance metrics from all critical components of the system. It then detects and corrects the root cause of database and transaction performance problems before they become noticeable for databases and their related applications. Monitor Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM Db2, and SAP Sybase ASE. For each of these database platforms, the interface of Precise looks and behaves the same to minimize the learning curve. Precise for Databases samples the monitored databases once per second or more frequently, has low overhead (typically 1%).

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