New Quest Software Community Initiative Answers the Question: “How Does My SQL Performance Stack Up?”

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Azure-based Project Allows Online Community to Upload, Share, Compare and Analyze SQL Server Performance Data

SEATTLE – PASS Summit 2010 – Nov. 9, 2010

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At PASS Summit 2010,Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today disclosed details of a new user-driven feature ofSQLServerPedia, code-named ‘Project Lucy.’ Project Lucy analyzes SQL Server trace files securely uploaded by community members. In return, it provides them with a valuable understanding of their instance performance, and how it stacks up against their peers’ environments and Microsoft best practices, while keeping their individual user information confidential.

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When it debuts, Project Lucy will provide users with information about their SQL workload based on the uploaded trace file, and highlight performance issues that arise from sort warnings, statement recompilations, plan cache reuse, and more. As the project evolves, users will be able to upload additional data such as log files, monitoring counters, and query plans, and compare their IT system performance with other visitors’ anonymous data.

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Project Lucy empowers DBAs and IT professionals to gain a better understanding of  their database performance through automated analyses and collaboration with their peers. This approach allows users to go beyond the benefits of installing and using a commercial product, and tap into an online community to share and compare experiences and results.

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Built on Windows Azure, Project Lucy is download-free. There are no installation or maintenance costs. It is directly integrated with the community via SQLServerPedia and, because it’s built in the cloud,visitor data and current best practices are always up-to-date.

Get Involved!

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The user community’s feedback and participation will drive how Project Lucy evolves. Get involved by participating in the pilot program! Go towww.projectlucy.comto get started.

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Amit Agarwal, director of product management for database performance management solutions, Quest Software

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“Project Lucy is part infrastructure analytics, part social media experiment, and part market analysis data warehouse. Our goal is to test the best ways we can help users learn and understand what their performance data really means, and how they should act upon that data – if at all – in a collaborative, meaningful way.”

Talk To Us Directly:

We can arrange a quick phone conversation with our experts, or an on-site interview at PASS Summit with our product team – just ask! Or, stop by booth 401 at the show.

Multimedia

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Downloads screenshots of Project Lucy:http://sqlserverpedia.com/lucy/screenshots.zip

About Us:

Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT) simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovations make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling customers to save time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments. For more information about Quest solutions forapplication management,database management,Windows management, andIT management, go towww.quest.com.  

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