You read that right – if you’re on board our upcoming SQLCruise, you’re going to get all of Quest’s SQL Server products for one year completely free of charge:

Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise – the legendary dashboard tool that tells you at a glance how your SQL Server is doing, and when you’re not there to glance at it, Spotlight will send you alert emails too.

Foglight Performance Analysis for SQL Server – what if you could run a trace 24/7 on your SQL Servers without slowing things down like Profiler does?  Foglight PA gives you in-depth insight into where your bottlenecks are and tracks the T-SQL, users, applications, etc causing the bottleneck.  If you’re managing an in-house-developed application, Foglight PA is your best friend.

LiteSpeed for SQL Server – anybody can take backups, but can you recover individual items out of your database backup like tables or stored procs?  Can you query your backup files as if they’re databases?  Can you manage all your log shipping on one screen?  If you’re on SQLCruise, you can, because you’ll have LiteSpeed.

That’s just the beginning, but there’s more.  Foglight for SQL Server lets you monitor server performance from a web browser, Benchmark Factory helps you load test your SQL Servers, Toad Data Modeler reverse engineers your databases to build diagrams and change scripts, and so much more.  We can’t cover all of Quest’s SQL Server products in one post, but here’s one thing we have to cover:

That’s $8,779 in free tools.

Thanks to our community-oriented sponsors like Quest, SQLCruise really does pay for itself.  SQLCruise attendees don’t just get great training, in-depth networking, and professional development training.  Quest wants you to get out of the cube and join the community.  Come on board!