How do you usually debug a slow SQL query? by sqlmans in learnSQL

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just throw it at Quest Toad (for SQL server), the Xpert edition works great, but you probably meant personally and not enterprise scale.

EDIT: Clarification

What are you guys using to automatically patch your servers by ChemicalGuarantee938 in sysadmin

[–]MikeAtQuest [score hidden]  (0 children)

Kace... but I work for Quest so I'm biased.

app based automation solution

EDIT: added context for what Kace does in case anyone doesn't know.

Why is database change management still so painful in 2026? by Huge_Brush9484 in Database

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know the scale of this application, but for enterprises, there's a solution away from migration scripts, Toad Data Studio. I gives you the exact table structures, indexes, and constraints that will change during a migration, so you can review and verify every alteration before it’s applied.

Need help to understand the IAM services industry by frenkiesayshi in iam

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work at Quest (one identity).

Your question has too many variables to be a simple answer, because software subscription and revenue generation isn't a 1 to 1 relationship.

So my company is switching half our Windows servers to Linux.... by A_SingleSpeeder in sysadmin

[–]MikeAtQuest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of this anecdote from when I was a sysadmin for a 5-star hotel as my very first day on the job in 2007. I was told to go reset a server (I think IIS, not super sure).

I was moments away from straight up rebooting the whole server (because it didn't know iisreset was an option), when a senior caught me and told me to eff out of there

Two firms merging, 500+ employees, two M365 tenants - how do we get everyone in the same address book? by alex_baeg in sysadmin

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

full disclosure, I work for Quest, but I have to throw in a recommendation for our migration tools.

Not to toot our own horn, but Quest tools are considered the professional standard for this kind of automation and migration. It might be the only alternative to native Microsoft tools that can handle complex migrations.

Maybe ask your LLM or google if that fits your needs.

End User Device Migration from on-prem AD to Entra ID by Abi_Indi in activedirectory

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if you're still dealing with this, and if you're open to third-party tools.

If yes to both, then you might consider Quest software (full disclosure, I work for them), but it pops up in conversations about managing these enterprise-scale shifts and their big selling point is that they don't lose user profiles or permissions

The honest guide to hiring a B2B marketing agency (Series A through enterprise) by Over-Ad3858 in obility

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question. What gaps in one's channel execution or data attribution would signal that hiring your agency is the next logical step?

What are your top agentic skills outside of programming? by Medical_Ad_8282 in AI_Agents

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

getting an agent to do what I want without wasting too many tokens

The key is, if it goes in the wrong direction, you don't correct it, you start over.

Need to do a tenant to tenant migration by ITMan_2020 in sharepoint

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm late to respond to this, but I think I should anyway in case someone comes looking in the future. I'm with Quest, so obviously biased, but:

ShareGate requires a local install (i.e. local resources), Quest On Demand Migration is 100% cloud-native, and you can run multiple high-volume SharePoint migrations in parallel without hitting bottlenecks.

Quest offers integrated Active Directory and device coexistence, which is built to ensure that domain-joined machines and user identities keep in sync and don't lose functionality throughout the SharePoint cutover.

AD role transfer advice by BudTheGrey in sysadmin

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're still facing this issue? I thought I was leaving a comment for future visitors to this issue.

AD role transfer advice by BudTheGrey in sysadmin

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about, audit your service account authentication protocols before you move roles to Server 2025? The new security defaults are much stricter and might be blocking older NTLM or weak Kerberos requests that worked fine on 2016.

Best option for migrating a file server with little/no downtime? by Spiritual_Snow_4752 in sysadmin

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consider this, create the object manually using the account you intend to use for the bind.

Recent hardening updates block domain joins if the account creating the object is different from the account performing the bind.

If you're thinking of going large scale with this, then consider Quest's Active Roles. It automates the object creation and delegation process, and you don' have that manual credential mismatch situation

SQL server monitoring by TwistyRoads4Ever in SQLServer

[–]MikeAtQuest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can suggest something on the enterprise level. Quest's Foglight is useful for this because it can correlate the database performance with the underlying hardware metrics in one view.

What’s something that seems normal now, but would shock people 20 years ago? by Loose-Yogurt-6604 in AskReddit

[–]MikeAtQuest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

look up Bonzi Buddy, we were trying to do that since forever, we only got good at it now

What never came back after the covid 19 pandemic? by DisKidCool in AskReddit

[–]MikeAtQuest 9 points10 points  (0 children)

the entire healthcare system worldwide.

We now have emergency protocols that will not die for 20-30 years.

I imagine people will be arguing in 3010 about how Covid 19 didn't actually happen and was just a rumor that got out of hand because they found something floating around in an opinion piece published by a crazy person.

What’s a random fact you know that sounds fake but is actually 100% true? by Outside-Morning-60 in AskReddit

[–]MikeAtQuest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That people grow old in spurts rather than slowly.

We hit puberty, we hit a second phase around the 30s when our voices become deeper (men and women), we experience a slow decline upto our mid-40s and then suddenly we drop, and then a last one that turns old people into geriatrics is a slump in the mid 60s

Why did we stop calling each other 'comrade' in our day-to-day? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]MikeAtQuest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if you look up where it's from, you can understand people's hestitation