It is industry knowledge that 80% of database server performance problems occur in SQL. Sql Power Tools captures and monitors 100% of the SQL performance sent to the database by end-users, web servers, application servers and batch processes.

Other competing database monitoring tools read the database server's shared memory or query the database server for information. These approaches prove to be intrusive and require a 10 - 30% overhead.

Sql Power Tools ranks SQL transactions by frequency of execution, resource utilization or average end user response time.

Conventional database monitors are expensive o operate on production database servers due to their typical 30% overhead. A 30% monitoring overhead on the database server may result in $100,000+ to $1,000,000 operating cost to run the database monitoring program on the database server! Sql Power Tools real-time zero impact end-user service level, SQL, top N SQL, and data warehouse data usage monitoring has NO impact on the database server, network or end-users.

End user response time is the primary metric used by businesses to assess the adequacy and consistency of their database service.

Conventional database monitors are (i) typically intrusive (with nearly 30% overhead), (ii) miss monitoring 98% of the SQL statements (due to ineffective sampling techniques), (iii) do not monitor end-user data usage analysis and (iv) completely ignore end-user service level analysis, and v) very expensive to operate due to up to 30% overhead (may result in $100,000+ operating cost per server annually).

You can focus your SQL performance and tuning efforts on improving the performance of all SQL statements (not just periodically sampled SQL).