SQL Server Management

Quest database solutions provide comprehensive SQL Server management for DBAs, simplifying design, development and monitoring. Minimize downtime with quick restoration options, track changes and optimize SQL code. Reduce risks of outages, enhance resiliency and manage SQL Server estates across multiple platforms. Simplify your SQL Server management with SQL tools for increased productivity and data protection.

Key benefits

CI/CD and automation

CI/CD integration with Azure DevOps Services provides the essential development and orchestration tools needed to automate the DevOps workflow and streamline SQL Server management.

Control and confidence

Reduce the headache of sprawl, easily find instances for patching or updating. Eliminate security holes, especially in a hybrid cloud environment with instances across multiple cloud providers.

Security

Gain broad visibility into SQL Servers, Active Directory, Exchange, Windows Servers, and NAS/SAN storage, Azure, and Office 365. Observe users, groups, permissions, and configurations to improve compliance to GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, FISMA, and PCI. Receive alerts for code and configuration alterations and track failed login attempts for proactive monitoring.

Performance improvement

Optimizing database performance can significantly impact corporate profitability, reducing server inefficiencies and improving decision making. Avoiding bottlenecks caused by poor query writing, indexing issues and slow data retrieval improves productivity for all data consumers.

Data intelligence

Facilitate data discovery, data access and usage, modelling, collaboration and self-service data preparation. Automate metadata harvesting and modeling, promote self-service discovery and ensure high availability and disaster recovery for data sets. Monitor Microsoft SSIS, SSAS and SSRS services.

Cloud DBaaS

Full suite of tools for cloud database monitoring, management, security, modeling and development for platforms such as Azure SQL, AWS RDS for SQL Server, Cloud SQL for SQL Server and SQL Server on IaaS.

Cloud migration and application modernization

Including data modeling the new system to ensure the application matches the business needs, decluttering prior to migration, accurate target database creation, error-free data movement and resource monitoring.

Resilience

Requires monitoring and alerting. But also learning and anticipating. Technology that ensures fault tolerance and redundancy is not enough. Neglecting people, process and governance can slow recovery during these disruptive events.

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Capabilities

SQL Server management

Simplify, streamline and automate database management and development processes while ensuring security and compliance. These tools improve productivity and offer guidance over your database estate, managing SQL Server sprawl, stored procedures, including Managed Databases. Automating and scheduling tasks helps improve productivity, helping to make our customers more proactive. The SQL Optimizer performs performance tuning, and the code snippet library and SQL Recall save time on frequent tasks.

Database DevOps

With Azure DevOps Services integration, improve software delivery quality through automation and collaboration. Enhance agility in a typically rigid database development cycle and prolong application lifespan to meet the needs of business. Integrate development with data modeling for a truly agile practice. The capability to use a set of PowerShell cmdlets to create a one-click script for custom SQL Server database CI/CD pipelines. Run stand-alone or integrate into build servers supporting PowerShell/CLI.

Performance and Optimization

Gain control and confidence over mission-critical systems with specialized SQL Server database monitoring, performance diagnostics, optimization. Achieve significant improvements in on-premises and multi-cloud operational workloads. Identify slow queries, blocked transactions, and other issues impacting performance. Implement a lightweight solution for monitoring and diagnosing workloads across environments with long-term performance data playback. Troubleshoot and tune databases for high performance and uptime, while gaining visibility into workload analysis, changes, and degradation. Monitor and track multi-cloud infrastructure performance for optimized database operations.

Cloud Cost Management

Offering a pre-, mid-, and post-migration support to optimize operations, control costs, and increase performance. It identifies cost-saving opportunities through usage analysis, waste reduction, and optimization recommendations. The tool provides cost projections before migrating to the cloud, enabling better budgeting and preventing billing surprises. The solution streamlines on-premises workloads and makes it easy to migrate to public or private cloud platforms. It offers insights into cost and usage in different clouds, allowing users to optimize resources and prevent overspending.

Audit and compliance

Track and report on critical changes to SQL Server to instantly identify key details. Ensure full SQL auditing by collecting over 200 event types and enable custom reporting to meet compliance standards. Set up a SQL Server audit log to instantly identify the “who, what, when, where and originating workstation” details. Out-of-the-box and custom reporting enable you to audit all SQL database and security activities, meet compliance requirements like HIPAA, GDPR and PCI, securely store audit data in a tamper-evident repository and much more. Automatically generate intelligent, in-depth forensics for auditors and management, reducing the risks associated with day-to-day modifications and ensuring confidence at your next audit.

Backup and recovery

Backup and restore your SQL Server databases to ensure business continuity and data protection. In the event of ransomware attacks, recover quickly with a continuous data protection enabled single recovery solution for all systems, applications and data. Higher backup compression rates, deduplication, compression, encryption and intelligent cloud tiering can help you reduce cloud storage costs. Additionally, you’ll have the ability to query and recover single objects and tables from not just our solution backup files but also native SQL Server backups.

Data governance

Empower your enterprise with data democratization. Visualize all data sources within a business-aligned framework and navigate with ease. Enhance data governance with tools and visibility to find assets, streamline workflows and promote stakeholder understanding and trust. Reduce dependence on technical resources and enhance analysis and decision-making. Capture organizational knowledge through community data asset ratings and business asset communication between business users, data owners, and stewards. Gain a comprehensive solution for full-scale data democratization needs of your Microsoft stack.

Data modeling

Data modeling is crucial for improving business intelligence. It offers a simple way for developers and non-tech stakeholders to communicate about business needs and how data can inform decision making. A well-constructed data model acts as a blueprint for designing efficient databases, utilizing high-quality data to enhance app development and decision making. Databases perform faster, are easier to modify and prevent reworks. The blueprint also helps identify inefficiencies and discover new optimization opportunities as business needs evolve.

SQL Server replication with Oracle

Take advantage of Microsoft business intelligence tools, reduce Oracle license costs, increase scalability, maximize availability and provide near real-time data integration. Modernize and migrate Oracle databases or data warehouses to a Microsoft SQL Server database with erwin Data Intelligence, erwin Data Modeler and SharePlex . This simple-to use solution ensures high availability by transferring intensive data analysis and reporting from Oracle to SQL Server and Azure SQL Database – without impacting OLTP performance. This highly reliable technology offers a low-cost alternative to other replication tools.

Award-winning database management solutions

Over multiple years, DBTA readers have chosen Quest® Database Operations products as their top picks in the DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards. See why Quest is the number one solutions vendor chosen by IT professionals to modernize their database environments on-premises and in the cloud – year after year.

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