I am seeking recommmendations as to the best of class , monitoring/adminstration/maintenance utilities/softwares that are being used to manage Oracle 8.0.5 and SQL Server 7.0 RDBMS.
We have many 24/7 db on Win NT and need tools be proactive & provide maintenance/tuning.....
Can you point out most effecient tools in the market?
Expand Beyond is very cool. But it gets pricey if you have many databases to monitor and multiple DBAs.
Quest's Spotlight is my favorite. Specifically when the users call and say they had a problem 20 minutes ago! (It keeps ongoing graphs of how the db is performing)