Welcome to Embarcadero® DB Optimizer™ 2.0

Published October 22, 2009

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Thank you for using Embarcadero DB Optimizer, an enterprise SQL development and optimization tool that gives database developers and administrators the perfect environment for building the best performing SQL code. This application easily identifies inefficient SQL code and boosts developer productivity by ensuring SQL is right before it becomes a problem in mission-critical applications. DB Optimizer also provides a rich SQL IDE with code completion, real-time error checking, code formatting and sophisticated object validation tools. Lastly, DB Optimizer provides advanced project and data source management tools.

DB Optimizer is supported on the following operating systems:

DB Optimizer will require a Java5 VM to run:

SQL execution and SQL tuning with DB Optimizer is supported on the following DBMS platforms and versions:

SQL profiling with DB Optimizer is supported on the following DBMS platforms and versions:

What's New in DB Optimizer 2.0

Visual SQL Tuning Diagram

Index Analysis

Expanding Views in the VST Diagram

Profile Details

Release Notes

DBMS Support

Important Advisory Notes

Bug Fixes

What's New in DB Optimizer 2.0

Embarcadero DB Optimizer simplifies optimization and development for application developers with many features for improving productivity and reducing code errors. DB Optimizer features fall into two general categories:

The DB Optimizer user interface offers easy to use analysis tools and improves overall productivity. DB Optimizer offers native support for IBM® DB2® for LUW, Oracle®, Microsoft® SQL Server and Sybase® as well as JDBC support for other DBMS.

Visual SQL Tuning Diagram

Visual SQL Tuning diagram that lets both developers and DBAs quickly analyze indexes and constraints on tables and views and understands joins used in a SQL statement.

Index Analysis

Color-coded Index Analysis feature displays all indexes in the execution plan with vital information such as which indexes are maximizing performance, suggests missing indexes, and indicates which indexes are used by the execution plan and which are not.

Expanding Views in the VST Diagram

View and sub-views can now be expanded to show the contents within them, including the tables and the indexes on those tables. Views can now be expanded in both Project Explorer and the Visual SQL Tuning diagram.

Profile Details

Profiling Details of the SQL Profiler have been expanded to show Session Details for Sybase and SQL Server, and the SQL that ran in the selected session for Sybase, SQL Server, and DB2.

Release Notes

DBMS Support

Important Advisory Notes

Bug Fixes

Bugs Fixed in Embarcadero DB Optimizer 2.0
OPT-1675 The Tuner can now properly extract SQL from Procedures (Sybase).

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