Case Study: Red Gold achieves peak database performance and uptime with Quest Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise

Red Gold ensures freshest tomato products through healthy databases

Red Gold, Inc., the largest privately held tomato processor in the U.S., operates highly automated plants and a million-square-foot distribution center that rely on SQL Server databases to keep perishable inventory moving. When two experienced DBAs left, a junior DBA was left to manage a complex, multi-instance SQL estate—creating an expertise gap that put uptime and production throughput at risk during critical packing seasons.

Red Gold implemented Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise for proactive monitoring, out-of-the-box thresholds, detailed drilldown, automated actions and mobile alerts. The solution accelerated root-cause diagnosis (for example, correcting tempdb configuration), enabled automated remediation and playback-based investigations, reduced helpdesk calls, freed the DBA to focus on projects, and avoided the need for additional headcount while improving database performance and reliability.

Red Gold

Matt Andrew

Database Manager