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SQL tools can help you increase productivity, reduce costs and protect your data. But not all SQL software provides the functionality you need to improve SQL Server management. Using native SQL tools or subpar solutions can actually cost you more in the long run.

What if you could take advantage of powerful SQL software that makes it easy to save time and reduce risk? This would mean you could increase DBA productivity while avoiding costly downtime. With our SQL Server tools, you’ll enable database administrators to cut their workload by up to 80 percent and focus on adding value to your business. Our industry-leading SQL Server software solutions allow you to:

  • Simplify performance management
  • Accelerate backup and recovery
  • Centralize administration
  • Manage and monitor single and multiple database platforms
  • Embrace CI/CD as a part of DevOps
  • Promote collaboration across teams
  • Ensure your SQL Server environment is up and running, effectively supported and secured

Capabilities

Monitor and diagnose single and multiple database platforms on-premises and in Azure, promote collaboration across teams, simplify performance management, protect your data, centralize administration and improve SQL Server health. It’s easy with the right solutions from Quest.
SQL Server performance monitoring

SQL Server performance monitoring

Easily optimize and tune with Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise. Ensure peak performance with unmatched monitoring, diagnosis and optimization. Gain access to the details you need for optimal SQL Server fitness. Get intuitive overviews of health and performance, automated alerts and actions, and mobile device support.

  • 24x7 SQL Server monitoring and diagnostics
  • Powerful root cause analysis
  • End-to-end monitoring
  • Multidimensional analysis
  • SQL analysis and Xpert tuning
  • System Healthcheck and Collective Intelligence
Read Datasheet: Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise
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Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise

Diagnose SQL Server performance issues quickly and accurately for a healthy database infrastructure

Azure-hosted SQL Server performance monitoring

Azure-hosted SQL Server performance monitoring

Spotlight Cloud for SQL Server is a cloud-powered SQL Server performance monitoring solution that provides 24x7 monitoring, instant diagnostics and powerful tuning to ensure consistent performance and high availability. Because Spotlight Cloud is a SaaS offering, it lowers the cost of ownership and simplifies deployment and maintenance – making high end performance tuning accessible to organizations of any size and DBAs of any ability.

  • 24x7 operational monitoring
  • More than 200 SQL Server alarm types
  • Multi-dimensional workload analysis
  • Drill down to identify root cause of alarms
  • Blocking analysis
  • Smart Alarms with background and suggestions
  • Up to 12 months of historical data

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Spotlight Cloud

Spotlight Cloud allows you to locate the pain points in your SQL Server environment and fix them.

Spotlight Tuning Pack

Spotlight Tuning Pack provides powerful SQL optimization and query plan analysis within SQL Server Management Studio.

SQL Server insight

SQL Server insight

Use Foglight to easily monitor complex and diverse database environments. Get valuable insight into all areas around database resources, workload analytics and change tracking. Receive a holistic view of multi-platform environments, including open-source and NoSQL, so you can collaborate among teams to find and fix performance issues before they put your databases at risk.

  • 24x7 operational monitoring
  • Built-in intelligence
  • Multi-dimensional workload analysis
  • Drill down to identify root cause of alarms
  • Adaptive baselines
  • Automated change tracking
  • Historical lock analysis
Watch Video: Foglight for SQL Server Overview
Read Technical Brief: SQL Performance Investigator

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Foglight for SQL Server

Ensure the health of your SQL Server databases with comprehensive performance monitoring

Foglight for Cross-Platform Databases

Consolidate and standardize database performance management across diverse environments.

SQL Server database management

SQL Server database management

Dramatically improve DBA productivity, ensure peak database performance and mitigate the risks of change. Toad for SQL Server and ApexSQL database management tools provide industry-leading capabilities and intuitive workflows to easily manage more databases.

  • SQL Server auditing and compliance
  • SQL and script group execute
  • Compare and sync
  • Transaction log read and recovery
  • SQL optimization
  • Performance testing
  • Data modeling
  • Task automation
Read Datasheet: Toad for SQL Server
Read Technical Brief: SQL Server for the Oracle DBA
Read Technical Brief: Solving the SQL Tuning Problem: Secrets of Quest SQL Optimizer

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Toad for SQL Server

Reduce time spent on SQL Server application development and database administration.

Benchmark Factory for Databases

Save time troubleshooting production issues, and quickly implement new applications.

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SQL Server backup and recovery

SQL Server backup and recovery

Use LiteSpeed to save up to 85 percent in backup size and duration (compared to competing solutions). We deliver high-speed, storage-efficient backup and restore for SQL Server databases with a wide variety of recovery options. Ensure the right SQL Server data is restored and available as quickly as possible.

  • Faster SQL Server backup and restore
  • Easier SQL Server management
  • Streamlined restoration
  • Targeted data and object recovery
  • Improved backup storage and speed by up to 85%
  • Direct integration from Azure, IBM TSM and others
Read Datasheet: LiteSpeed for SQL Server
Watch Video: LiteSpeed for SQL Server Provides High-Speed Backup, Compression and Restore
Read Technical Brief: Top 8 LiteSpeed Features DBAs Should Know About

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Toad for SQL Server

Reduce time spent on SQL Server application development and database administration.

Toad Data Modeler

Create high-quality data models and easily deploy accurate changes to data structures

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SQL Server Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

SQL Server Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Deliver your applications faster by shortening database development cycles – without compromising quality or increasing risk. Leverage the benefits of CI and CD by including automated database development tasks with your application processes. With developer tools for SQL Server, you don’t have to choose between speed, quality, performance and reliability.

  • Generate synthetic test data
  • Add a data change audit trail
  • Create a data sync script
  • Plug into popular build servers
  • Automatically run SQL unit tests
  • Create a schema sync script
  • Orchestrate multiple steps and build from source control

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ApexSQL DevOps Toolkit

SQL database DevOps tool to implement continuous integration and delivery (CI CD)

ApexSQL tools for Developers

Integrate database changes and automate deployments

Award-winning database management solutions

Award-winning database management solutions

Named “Best Database Development Solution” in the 2019 DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards.

Resources

The Essential Playbook for Optimized SQL Server Management
E-book
The Essential Playbook for Optimized SQL Server Management
The Essential Playbook for Optimized SQL Server Management
Discover the essentials of optimizing SQL Server management in your organization. Read our e-book to learn how successful database professionals optimize their SQL Server environment.
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Jenkon moves database backups 90 percent faster, optimizes SQL queries
Case Study
Jenkon moves database backups 90 percent faster, optimizes SQL queries
Jenkon moves database backups 90 percent faster, optimizes SQL queries
Facing tremendous growth and new market opportunities, Jenkon needed new tools to monitor performance and ensure quick backups for its customers’ SQL Server databases.
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Demystifying CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER
Online Event
Demystifying CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER
Demystifying CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER

Speaker: Brent Ozar

If you've managed database performance, you've come across the wait types CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER. You've seen a lot of conflicting instructions on how to go about fixing them, and you know that setting MAXDOP to 1 isn't the right thing to do. Learn what happens when SQL Server parallelizes queries correctly, what causes parallelism to go awry, and what you can do about it.

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