The world’s leading betting exchange, Betfair, has selected DBTuna to help guarantee Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL database performance in production, performance testing and development environments

“When we thought about our selection criteria for a database performance monitoring tool there were four things that were key,” said Nigel Noble, Senior Performance DBA at Betfair. Firstly it needed to be able to provide us with a very fine level of detail, so that we could capture very short duration performance issues. Secondly it needed to be able to cope with monitoring our huge transaction volumes on various Oracle platforms, without adding significant overhead. Thirdly it needed to be good at profiling performance during load-tests, allowing us to quickly and easily highlight bottlenecks, and compare differences between multiple tests. And fourthly it needed to support not just Oracle but SQL Server and MySQL. “In just a few months we’ve become totally hooked on DBTuna. Its ease of installation has meant that we have been able to deploy the product quickly and because it is so intuitive and easy to use we have had no trouble in getting our colleagues across the business to use it. DBTuna is used throughout all stages of application development as well as in production, helping everyone to communicate internally about database performance issues. I now frequently email my colleagues URL links to DBTuna that point them directly ‘in context’ to the issue or SQL statement that I’m working on. As you can imagine, this saves us a lot of time and helps to ensure that we can get to the root-cause of an issue more quickly, which is better for us and our customers."

"The best thing about DBTuna in production is the amount of time it saves us when investigating performance problems. This means we fix problems faster and keep our customers happy. It automated our approach to performance tuning and removed the need for manually reviewing data from different tools"

" …being able to learn how to use DBTuna on, say, Oracle and then use this knowledge when looking as SQL Server is great. Over time I’m sure that being able to transfer skills in this way will help us provide the business with a higher level of service, and our customers with consistently high performance."

"In just a few months we’ve become totally hooked on DBTuna! Its ease of installation has meant that we have been able to deploy the product quickly and because it is so intuitive and easy to use we have had no trouble in getting our colleagues across the business to use it."