SolarWinds Enables DataOps for All With Free DBA xPress Tool

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SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) has launched DBA xPress as a free tool aimed at enhancing data management for professionals. This product enables users to visually structure data environments, facilitating comparison, synchronization, and navigation of data and schemas. With a focus on promoting DataOps, DBA xPress supports automation and simplifies SQL Server cloud migrations. Key findings from a recent report indicate that implementation challenges, such as lack of training and resources, hinder DataOps adoption. The initiative supports organizations in optimizing their cloud migration processes at no cost.

Positive

• DBA xPress is now available for free, enhancing accessibility for data professionals.
• The tool promotes DataOps adoption, increasing efficiency and productivity for database managers.
• Supports automated management processes and simplifies cloud migration for SQL Server.

Negative

• Implementation barriers for DataOps include lack of training/resources (44%) and difficulties in securing leadership buy-in (33%).

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management software, announced its SolarWinds^® DBA xPress product is now available as a free tool. For data professionals who need to understand how a data environment is visually structured, DBA xPress intuitively helps compare, synchronize, script, and navigate data and schemas, enabling data pros to more seamlessly adopt DataOps, automate releases and simplify Microsoft^® SQL Server^® cloud migrations at no cost.

DBA xPress intuitively helps compare, synchronize, script, and navigate data and schemas, enabling data pros to more seamlessly adopt DataOps, automate releases and simplify Microsoft® SQL Server® cloud migrations at no cost. (Photo: Business Wire)

According to data pro respondents in The SolarWinds Query Report 2021: Database Priorities and Pitfalls, DataOps offers several benefits, including functional benefits such as increased efficiency/productivity among teams; reduced manual effort; automated management processes; and enabling faster access to actionable business intelligence/decision making.

However, while the benefits are clear, implementation is the biggest barrier to greater DataOps adoption. Respondents reported a lack of proper training/education/tooling (44%) and a lack of resources/budget (44%) as the leading challenges to implementing DataOps, followed closely by difficulty securing buy-in from business leadership (33%).

As more organizations seek the benefits of DataOps strategies, it’ll be imperative in the near term to deliver value through data. DBA xPress will help tech pros tackle this head on—for free—and help them move one step closer to implementing a successful DataOps strategy.

“As digital transformation continues to accelerate across industries, we’re seeing more businesses start to prioritize their move to the cloud. But as teams—especially database managers—start to break down cloud migration requirements, it quickly becomes apparent how time-consuming and costly it can be,” said Rohini Kasturi, chief product officer, SolarWinds. “To succeed in migrating from one environment to another, teams need to optimize their data to maximize the performance of cloud-hosted databases and adopt solutions that enable DataOps practices to drive efficiency and productivity. We’re hoping to kickstart and simplify this optimization process for DBAs, DevOps teams, tech pros, and business leaders alike by offering DBA xPress for free.”

DBA xPress helps data teams understand schema and data differences and data dependencies as part of the database re-architecture process when preparing for Microsoft SQL Server cloud migrations. Data pros need to manage moving code and data from on-premises to cloud environments—especially in an organization’s change management pipeline from application development to production—and the ability to automatically compare data and schemas ensure successful migrations.

DBA xPress highlights include the ability to:

• Compare databases and synchronize the schema and data within them
• Automate schema and data synchronization via command line interface (CLI)
• Analyze dependencies and connections among tables, users, functions, and security policies
• Browse the content of SQL Server databases, access the scripts for each object, and export them

Additional Resources

• SolarWinds DBA xPress
• The SolarWinds Query Report 2021: Database Priorities and Pitfalls
• Blog: Automate DBA xPress Schema and Data Comparisons Through the Command Line
• Blog: Exploring Your Data Universe
• Blog: Generating DDL Statements to Recreate Single Objects

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About SolarWinds

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) is a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management software. Our solutions give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to accelerate business transformation in today’s hybrid IT environments. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and Database Administrators (DBAs) – to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, allow us to address customers’ needs now, and in the future. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management. Learn more today at www.solarwinds.com.

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FAQ

What is DBA xPress and how does it benefit SolarWinds users?

DBA xPress is a free tool launched by SolarWinds that helps data professionals manage and synchronize databases, improving efficiency and supporting cloud migration.

How does DBA xPress facilitate DataOps?

DBA xPress automates management processes and simplifies data handling, which aids in the adoption of DataOps strategies for better productivity.

What challenges do organizations face with DataOps adoption according to SolarWinds?

According to SolarWinds, 44% of respondents cite lack of training/resources and 33% mention difficulty in securing leadership buy-in as major challenges to DataOps adoption.

When was DBA xPress made available for free?

DBA xPress was announced as a free tool in August 2021.