Case Study: Global Paper Manufacturer achieves automated synchronization across 7,600 schemas with Quest Toad DevOps Toolkit

Database DevOps team automates synchronization across 7,600 schemas

A small database DevOps team at a global paper manufacturer—supporting more than 30 facilities with 12 dev/test/training environments and roughly 13 schemas per production database (about 7,600 schemas total)—was spending years writing and maintaining PowerShell scripts to keep schemas synchronized across sites. The manual, error-prone process created a release bottleneck that left developer requests sitting in a two- to three‑week backlog and consumed time that could have gone to new features.

By adopting Quest’s Toad DevOps Toolkit and integrating it with their build automation (TFS/Azure DevOps), the team automated schema compare-and-sync operations, including customization to handle differently named schemas, and reduced script maintenance from hundreds to a single script. The change sped execution and environment setup, cut response times from weeks to days, eliminated much of the manual troubleshooting, and freed the team to focus on delivering new database features instead of managing synchronization across 7,600 schemas.