Quest Upgrades SQL  Server 2005 Offerings
        Products promise  automated database change tracking and performance analysis
        
        
        Continuing its support  of Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server 2005, Quest  Software recently  unveiled its latest offering, Change Director for SQL Server, as well as  upgrades to its Performance Analysis for SQL Server 6.0 and Toad SQL Server  3.0. 
Using Change  Director for SQL Server, database administrators can automate and monitor  the rollout of scheduled and real-time database changes. Reporting features allow  administrators to track changes, which helps to preserve version control,  minimize change impact and reduce the risk of outages due to unplanned or  problematic changes. 
Quest has enhanced itsPerformance  Analysis for SQL Server, a database workload analysis  tool that offers both real-time and historical monitoring and  problem-resolution features. The company added an adaptive profiling tool  called IntelliProfile that transparently learns the database's baseline  performance so that it can easily track performance problems.
Quest  Toad for SQL Server, a database  development and administration tool, helps  developers cut bugs and quicken the pace of code generation without diminishing  application performance. Features include new administrative tools, easy export  to Excel, editing of duplicate data and notations on database objects.
Change Director, which is now  available, starts at $795 per server. More information on Quest's line of SQL  Server products can be found here.
-- David Kopf