Sheeri Cabral - The Pythian Group
MONyog is the best out-of-the-box GUI monitoring tool for MySQL that
I have seen. It "just works." As promised, getting up and running
quickly is easy, and having a centralized location for monitoring is
very useful. The graphs are beautiful and the statistics that are
graphed are useful time-savers.
The biggest difference between MySQL's Enterprise Monitor and MONyog
is that MONyog is agentless. At Pythian, we have many clients with
differing security requirements. Requiring a daemon process to be
running is not something we currently do, and it might be a hard sell
for some clients. Even if every client was amenable to it, making sure
the daemon is up and running on each MySQL server is tedious. Note
that agentless operation works for every feature, including log
analysis as well as operating system statistics.

Christos Kalantzis - Senior DBA/System Administrator, YouSendIt.com
I have used MySQL Enterprise Monitor for a year and a half, and although some believe its a superior product, its 5K per server per year for the Enterprise version. I just started using MONyog a month ago, and purchased it today.
I bought the Unlimited Pack and that is a perpetual license for an unlimited amount of servers. It gives me all the monitoring I need and without an agent installed on the MySQL server. That makes the sys-admins I work with very happy.
My prefered feature is the log analyzer. It makes analysing the slow-query-log and the general-log really easy and efficient.
Cool product, check it out if you can.

Zane Francis - Owner / Director, JX2 Technology Pvt Ltd
We use SQLyog Enterprise for some database administration of our customers' MySQL
databases. It can save quite a bit of time, especially having multiple
queries in the Query editor and being able to execute each query
individually. Let's you step through things, and check on data as you go
along.
Where we get the most benefit though, is the Structure Synchronization Tool.
This has saved us countless hours. Our core product uses an abstracted
database layer that actually does a good job of generating our database
schema automatically. When we need to update a customer's database to a new
schema, we use the Structure Synchronization Tool to generate a difference
script between the two schema versions. This tool gets it right every time,
and takes minutes for a task that would typically take days to compile
manually with the number of tables we have.
We tested a few other products for this specific feature before trying
SQLyog and no others were as easy to use, and also give the result we were
after. We almost didn't try SQLyog Enterprise because we didn't think that we could
get the features we needed in a product that was sold at this price! I'm
glad we did! This product paid for itself 10 times over the first time we
run the Structure Synchronization Tool! Because it saves us so much time
and gets it right EVERY TIME, we are a lot more confident in getting new
features that our customers want in our software on a more regular basis.
Major Update does not equate to a major pain anymore.
While temporarily contracting for another company, I recommended SQLyog Enterprise for
the Database Synchronization Wizard (we were migrating some software from MS
SQL Server to MySQL). They purchased a license, and once again, this
software paid for itself on saved time in the first afternoon. For the rest
of the project, we used it to develop database maintenance scripts, design
new tables and relationships in the Schema Designer, and found it very handy
for importing data files (MySQL dumps as well as CSV files) across the
network.
I have already recommended it to others, and there is no reason why I won't
continue to do so. Keep up the great work guys!

Mark Cloyd - Owner / Programmer, Mark Cloyd Designs
Dancing with joy... still. I have been using SQLyog Enterprise for some time now and
am convinced that it is simply the best MySQL management tool ever.
I have tried many different tools over the years, including those from the
MySQL website; I am really in to Open Source, but every once in a while a
product/program really stands out and is worth buying. Nothing touches
SQLyog Enterprise for easy, comprehensive power and usability.
When I first downloaded SQLyog, I was a little apprehensive, but excited to
see what it could do - well, after about an hour of poking around, I was
literally dancing around the room, my wife thought I was NUTS; it had
immediately solved many issues I had with different projects quickly and
easily. I have a couple of web-based applications that use in-house database
systems, to get that data on the web without complicated programming is now
a breeze with the Database Synchronization Wizard. Just a short set-up
process and the use of the integrated SQLyog Job Agent, data stored in a
separate system is easily updated to the web via the supplied Tunneling
Script for public use whenever updates are needed; it's awesome!
I recently had a rather large project that I converted from SQL to MySQL and
the Migration Tool Kit made the job a breeze, instead of spending hours
fretting over data types, complicated drivers and filters, and the sheer
size of the SQL database I was converting, I was immediately able to resume
work optimizing queries by quickly adding Indexes and viewing results in the
Query Analyzer; I didn't miss a step, my client was impressed and I was the
hero... being the hero is always a good thing.
Scheduled back-ups are a slam dunk too! I don't ever have to worry about
keeping backups current with regard to my clients databases, they now take
care of themselves, I am completely prepared for any loss of data that may
occur as a result of server issues; if for some reason a table is acting a
little buggy, the Table Diagnostics make identification and repair easy and
fast. Need a quick report of data within a table or from a specified query to
display for your client? SQLyog Enterprise makes exporting into either .CSV,.HTML,.XML
or .SQL files fast so you can display or send your data to your client
without delay. That works in reverse as well, if a client sends you data in
any of those formats, importing is just as easy and you no longer need to
spend time with complicated scripts to import data.
I could go on, but suffice it to say that SQLyog Enterprise has saved me time and money
and has taken a lot of thought and worry out of database management.

