1. Database Performance Monitoring Solutions for SQL Server Gordon Cornelius – National Account Manager - Florida

2. Who is Quest Software?
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3. Quest Software We are the #1 Database Tools Vendor!
Database Management
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Known for delivering market-leading,
best-of-breed database tools
with nearly 20 years of database development
and management expertise baked in.

4. Software solutions for SQL Server
Monitor, manage, protect and improve your SQL Server environment
Ensure quality, performance and availability

5. You depend on SQL Server
Your organization relies on SQL Server to support its applications, customers, and employees. But in order for you to:
Maintain productivity
Control costs
Protect data
your SQL Server environment must be up and running, effectively supported and secure.

6. You can depend on Quest
With our industry-leading solutions for SQL Server, you can:
Simplify performance management
Accelerate backup and recovery and reduce storage costs
Centralize administration
Manage and monitor single and multiple database platforms
Collaborate across teams

7. Performance monitoring and management
You live and breathe SQL Server. Yet, to ensure business continuity, you need a real-time and historic view of performance in your SQL Server environment
“The detail we get from Spotlight gives us a warning that something is about to go wrong and allows us to act on it before a issue hits us.
Even when we’re not on site, we use the Spotlight mobile app to monitor the health of our SQL Servers and perform all of our work as if we were in the office.”
Jenkon
With Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise you can:
Easily detect and diagnose performance issues through an overview of performance data
Receive instant alerts of bottlenecks at the server level and determine the root cause
Proactively resolve issues before they impact the business
Conduct SQL tuning within SQL Server Management Studio
Obtain FREE health check metrics and benchmark against a community of users
Anywhere, anytime on virtually any device!

8. Spotlight in action
Prioritize at a glance with the intuitive heat map
Operating System diagnostics with SQL Server vNext on Linux
Follow indicators on dashboards to the problem source
Instantly respond to issues with native apps for your mobile device
Quickly Identify what is waiting on resources, right down to SQL statements
Divide workflow by host, database, user or SQL statement in a few clicks
Watch for any failures or bottlenecks across your replication topology
Monitor instances from the Spotlight dashboard and diagnostic drilldowns

9. Naples Community Hospital (NCH)
ESOS
Leading provider of HR and payroll services
Challenge
Cost and complexity of managing data of 280 branches
Sizing, performance and data corruption
DBA teams spending 20 percent of time reacting
Results
By implementing Spotlight on SQL Server, improved efficiency with a centralized, proactive approach to performance monitoring
Reduced DBA time requirements by 80 percent
“The Spotlight solution has reduced DBA activity by 80 percent which gives us more time to focus on adding value to our business in other areas.”
Simon Smith - DBA and Continuity Specialist
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10. A complete picture of database health
Your organization’s needs go beyond SQL Server. You need an enterprise solution that covers single domain environments as well as complete cross platform performance collaboration for SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL and Cassandra.
“Foglight has provided a great benefit to our SQL Server environment; it has allowed us to monitor many servers and databases with the ability to deploy alerts in just minutes. 
Foglight with Performance Investigator allows us to go back and look at historical data related to issues that occurred within our environment at a glance”.
American Axle Manufacturing
With Foglight for Databases you can:
Gain a Real-Time View of enterprise-level performance at a glance
Identify servers and resource areas where performance degradation originates
Diagnose and resolve issues quickly
Automate performance metric analysis and responses for fast resolution
Leverage built-in workflow functionality to craft solution templates unique to your environment
Ensure complete coverage with the lowest possible overhead

11. Foglight in action
Quickly drill down and investigate platform specific health through a single web interface
Get alerts about deviations in normal activity and diagnose the root cause of performance issues
Get a single view of the health and performance of your multi-platform database environment
Troubleshoot performance and availability problems in real time or by analyzing historical data
Diagnose performance issues using multi-dimensional analysis (SQL Server & Oracle)
Automate report scheduling and delivery to eliminate time consuming and repetitive tasks

12. Naples Community Hospital (NCH)
Colorado Springs
City government
Challenge
Maintain service levels with reduction in staff
Reactive VS proactive approach to solving problems
Results
Implemented Foglight for SQL Server to provide real time visibility
Can now ensure that services and applications are performing as expected, while staying within the city’s budget
“Prior to Foglight, we were pretty much guessing what the cause was when an event occurred. With Foglight, we can look at the logs and determine exactly when an incident occurred and then work from there to resolve the issue.”
Curlie Matthews, CIO
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13. Backup and recovery With LiteSpeed for SQL Server you can:
To prevent production downtime, you need to restore data and objects directly from backup files without the need to perform a full restore and undo accidental or malicious transactions right on the server.
“Using native SQL Server tools for differential backups was an awkward, manual process and it did not save enough storage space. We resolved this challenge using LiteSpeed Fast Compression which automatically determines whether to perform a full or differential backup, maximizing storage savings.”
Data Technology Consultants, Ltd.
With LiteSpeed for SQL Server you can:
Reduce database backup size and recovery time
Cut storage costs and backup / recovery windows
Maintain complete control over the backup and recovery process
Recover individual database objects and encapsulate a complete database restore into a single file
Dramatically speed restore times

14. LiteSpeed in action
Dashboard for detailed backup & restore activity with options to quickly re-execute backups as needed
Create edit and deploy backup strategies to multiple instances in seconds
Quickly recover schema from data and backups with object-level recovery
Quickly recover individual DML/DDL statements or full transactions using the translation log reader
Test your SQL Servers to understand compression and I/O speeds for disk, cloud and TSM backups
Quickly design customer maintenance plans that leverage LiteSpeed’s Fast Compression backup technology

15. Naples Community Hospital (NCH)
Data Technology Consultants
IT consultancy and training organization Challenge
Struggled with manual differential backups
Maximization of storage space
Controlling costs
Results
Implemented LiteSpeed for SQL Server’s fast compression to easily decide when to do a full backup and when to do a differential— automatically
Reduced space requirements, maintenance windows and network traffic while dramatically reducing storage costs
“Using native SQL tools for differential backups was an awkward, manual process and it did not save enough storage space. We resolved this challenge with LiteSpeed for SQL Server.”
Chris Burns - Technical Director
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16. Quest solutions for SQL Server
With industry-leading award winning solutions for SQL Server, Quest lets you spend less time on IT administration and more time on IT innovation
Simplify performance management
Accelerate backup and recovery
Reduce storage costs
Centralize administration
Manage and monitor single and multiple database platforms
Promote collaboration among teams

17. Email if you would like a free license!!! Gordon.Cornelius@quest.com