Re: Quest: I/Watch and Spotlight

Kristen,

I've been using Instance Monitor (obviously I need to update the product) for about six months now. I couldn't justify to myself the cost of spacewatch, etc., but after using Instance Monitor I realized that while I COULD generate my own tools to do this (and have for Informix), it would take me a long time and they would be nowhere near as well integrated.

There are many things I would change, but overall it has been a very useful tool and has helped me tune our production database much more quickly than would otherwise have been possible. Since we use PeopleSoft, tuning is a very important, in fact critical, thing. It has also pointed up how poorly some of the PeopleSoft queries are written -- not that there is much I can do about that except agonize over it.

All in all, I would say it has been worth the money, though I do still agonize over the cost sometimes.

Larry Strickland

Sr. Systems Analyst
St. Petersburg Jr. College
St. Petersburg, Florida

At 02:23 PM 8/29/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Looking for comments:
>
>I'm planning to purchase a copy of Quest's Spotlight (formerly Instance
>Monitor) and I/Watch. I'm feeling a little guilty about spending the
>money when I know that with enough time and effort I could likely set up
>the necessary jobs and events in OEM to do the monitoring I need.
>
>If anyone out there uses these products, I'd appreciate some
>feedback. Are they useful? They sure are pretty, but is it more than
>skin deep? Is the ease-of-use and graphic representation worth the
>money? This is a bit off-topic, so feel free to contact me directly at
>cameronkgd_at_inac.gc.ca.
>
>Thanks for your expertise!
>
>- Kristen Cameron, wannabe OCP (passed my first exam!)
>Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
>Yellowknife NT
>*************************************
><>< aspiring to be the woman of Proverbs 31 :-)
>
>
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>Author: Kristen Cameron
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