Quest Central® for SQL Server

Spotlight on SQL Server

Spotlight® on SQL Server which is Quest Central's Performance Diagnostics module, provides historical and real-time diagnostics for all critical SQL Server components in a single interface, alerting you to potential bottlenecks, problem areas and their causes and speed resolution.

With Spotlight, DBAs can drill down to locate in-depth information about the source of a problem. And because the run-time nature of each SQL Server is unique, Spotlight calibrates itself to normal activity for each server. This allows Spotlight to automatically set the speed of the internal flows and other activity indicators. When a threshold is met, Spotlight sends a visual or audible alert.

Key Benefits

• See everything important in one place – Spotlight shows you actual database and operating system activity in real time
• Improve responsiveness to components forming bottlenecks with real-time alerts
• Simplify your database management tasks by eliminating the need to write diagnostic SQL scripts
• Monitor multiple SQL Servers databases simultaneously
• Increase the effectiveness of your staff with advice from the Online tuner
• Increase management efficiency with views of database space and the internal structure of SQL Server log files
• Provides a comprehensive, context-sensitive help text covering thousands of topics by integrating with KnowledgeXpert for SQL Server
• Snaps into Quest Software's Foglight® for 24x7 unattended monitoring of applications and databases
• Extend your diagnostic capabilities with complete integration with Spotlight® on Windows
• From an overview screen, DBAs can view the most active SQL Server sessions, SQL statements, Replication information, blocks, deadlocks, waits, and disk activity to pinpoint and alleviate problems as they occur before they seriously impact end users.

Check out the other components of Quest Central for SQL Server: Performance Analysis, Database Administration, SQL Tuning and Space Management.

Quest Central database solutions are also available for Oracle, DB2 and Sybase.