We performed a comparison between IDERA ER/Studio and Redgate SQL Toolbelt based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This application does a lot of things, as do competitor products, but the main reason to go with this product was the ability to create many automations, where we can improve our work and our process."
"The most important features are logical and physical models that we can compare and develop. Also, the Data Dictionary can be created out of your studio. Finally, database schemas help understand the logic that's behind the scene, behind the SQL tables. Especially when there are a lot of them, the schemas help everyone understand the business processes."
"The most valuable features are... those that enable me to represent the database to the development community and the business users."
"When validating the model, the ability to provide sub-models to developers, and generate a physical model from the logical, makes it easier to review a logical model with stakeholders."
"We found a lot of duplication, a lot of non-conformity in the way our databases were designed. By identifying these situations, we're able to go back in and try to create a more standardized solution."
"We have been able to quickly create models for our enterprise-wide databases, even when some of them are third-party databases."
"We use the solution to create data models which describe our company's data architecture"
"The most valuable feature of the solution is generating DDL (data definition language)."
"The most valuable feature is SQL Search."
"It is easy to track the reports, this is what is most valuable for me."
"The visual presentation is a little too colorful and seems that it is dumbed down."
"It would be helpful if they could create a generic JSON database type, as a target database, rather than a specific one like Mongo."
"when there are some links to the external databases, if this database is not structured it is not uploaded. It gives me errors and I cannot see the view that was created on this structure and I cannot change those views, even manually. It skips the views. I have to ignore those views. I cannot re-upload them because it gives me an error."
"One limitation I have found in ER/Studio is that when you want to make some changes to the table definitions, you have to go item by item. You cannot do it globally. Another issue concerns defining the foreign keys between the different tables. It is a little more tedious in the ER/Studio than in ERrwin. With ERwin it is direct."
"It isn't easy to compare the thousands of tables in the model against the database. The tool should improve the synchronization within the large organization"
"I would like to upload, a database with about 3,000 tables. It takes so much time and, finally, it freezes the whole solution so that I actually cannot work with that environment. For the data warehouse, it's fine because I have 20 or 30 tables. It works fine. But, when I reverse-engineer the database with 3,000 tables, it freezes and it's hard to upload and reverse-engineer such environments in ER/Studio."
"When building the relationships there should be a little more flexibility."
"The screens are a bit outdated. They could use a new look and feel."
"The biggest problem with the Redgate SQL Toolbelt is just how heavy it is; it seems to take a lot of resources."
"I would like to see the bandwidth increase allowing me to easily analyze more data."
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IDERA ER/Studio is ranked 14th in Database Development and Management with 34 reviews while Redgate SQL Toolbelt is ranked 8th in Database Development and Management. IDERA ER/Studio is rated 8.4, while Redgate SQL Toolbelt is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IDERA ER/Studio writes "The solution has important reverse engineering features, but it needs a single sign-on feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Redgate SQL Toolbelt writes "SQL Search and change automation functionality help us manage our code repository and databases". IDERA ER/Studio is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, SAP PowerDesigner, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Toad Data Modeler and Komprise, whereas Redgate SQL Toolbelt is most compared with Quest Spotlight, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, DBmaestro Database Source Control, Toad for Oracle and SQL Sentry. See our IDERA ER/Studio vs. Redgate SQL Toolbelt report.
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