Quest Central® for SQL Server

Performance Analysis

Quest Central for SQL Server Performance Analysis is a comprehensive workload analysis tool that offers both real-time and historical monitoring with integrated problem diagnostics and resolution features. It allows DBAs to rapidly and effectively focus their attention on application and database related performance issues, solve problems quickly and improve overall application responsiveness throughout the application lifecycle. Performance Analysis for SQL Server empowers users with the ability to diagnose past performance, understand the present and foresee future performance variations.

Key Benefits

• Captures performance data without impacting database performance.
  
• Identifies and anticipates performance issues, reducing time to resolution.
  
• Track changes and automatically correlate changes to performance.
  
• Provides a central repository for retrieving all performance related statistics.
  
• Offers intelligent and customizable performance and activity highlights for alarming and drilldown to related problems.
  
• Establishes performance baselines and trends for your most important programs and SQL statements.
  
• Predicts when system performance will degrade and impact end-user response time.
  

Key Features

• Performs root cause analysis to rapidly identify bottlenecks, anomalies, peak activities and application performance trends.
  
• Contains a visually-oriented GUI zooming feature and drilldown to allow DBAs to focus on top resource consumers by various dimensions, such as SQL statements, T-SQL blocks, users, programs, machines, OS metrics and many more.
  
• Monitors current SQL Server database instance, session activity and performance consumption at a glance.
  
• Reports and correlates performance on numerous system changes that impact performance such as database and operating system configuration changes, schema changes and SQL execution plan changes.
  
• Offers full diagnostic support for database locking in both recent and historical collections.
  
• Captures all SQL statements and performance metrics in sub-second intervals, with no overhead by utilizing the most advanced collection technology
  
• Stores historical performance data for an unlimited time period, allowing the DBA to baseline, trend and capacity plan SQL Server's activity.
  
• Identifies the root of performance problems by detecting offensive SQL statements.
  
• Provides immediate troubleshooting in real-time, even when SQL Server is overloaded or not responding.
  

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

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

StealthCollect Agent Installation Files

StealthCollect installation can be performed either remotely or locally (recommended). Remote installation is performed by using a wizard run from your Windows-based client. Local installation is performed by running the Windows-based installation wizard locally on the server host. StealthCollect can be installed in either a single or multi-tier configuration (recommended). In a multi-tier configuration, the middleware resides on a host other than the monitored instance host. The middleware is responsible for the processing and storage of real-time and historical performance data.

Use the local installer for new installations and when you have full access to the target and middleware servers. The local installer does not support upgrading of existing agents. Use the remote server installer if either you are installing a new agent and the files cannot be manually copied to the target server or you are upgrading an existing agent.

StealthCollect For SQL Server Local Server Installation (recommended)
StealthCollect for SQL Server Remote Installation
StealthCollect for SQL Server Agent Upgrade