Quest Software, Inc.

Quest Software is a software company that develops tools for database development and administration, application performance monitoring, backup and recovery, and endpoint systems management. It is best known for the Toad family of database tools (Toad for Oracle, Toad for SQL Server, Toad for MySQL) which are widely used by DBAs and developers for query tuning, schema management, and database development productivity. Quest's portfolio also includes products for database and application monitoring, data protection, migration and cloud management.

Historically, Quest has been an established vendor in the database and IT management space and has gone through several ownership changes; its products have been distributed both as standalone commercial software and as free editions for some developer tools. The company is positioned toward enterprises and IT professionals who need tooling for performance troubleshooting, database administration, backup and recovery, and migrations to moder...