Re: Recommend DBA Tools?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 11:19:20 -0800
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950131111351.5819G-100000_at_seatimes>
> >We would like to acquire some cool (read: graphical) tools to assist with
> >the administration of our Oracle Server for NetWare database. We think we
> >need utilities for fast dataloads and reorganizations. We would also
> >like a graphical tool to help with db administration: monitor db use,
> >monitor jobs that are executing, schedule backups, administer security.
> >And we think we need something to help us monitor performance. Have you
> >got a recommendation for a product that's cooler than say, SQL*DBA?
As a rather new ORACLE DBA myself (1-1/2 yrs with ORACLE, 19+years other platforms), I've been searching for several categories. I've pulled the ads from several magazines and have come up with this very short list.
TABLESPACE MANAGEMENT
TSreorg Dimeric 1-800-464-8672 Defrag/Partition 22020 Clarendon St, Suite 204 Column Maint. Woodland Hills, CA 91367 DB Migration easyDBA Dimeric 1-800-464-8672 Space Mgmt 22020 Clarendon St, Suite 204 security, DDL scripts Woodland Hills, CA 91367 DEFRAG ARIS 1-206-433-2081 6840 Southcenter Blvd, Suite 125 Seattle, WA 98188 Desktop Platinum Technology 1-708-620-5000 1815 South Meyers Rd 1-800-207-7528 Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 DBGENRL BRADMARK 1-800-ASK-BRAD reorg
PERFORMANCE MONITORING
DB-Vision Aston Brooke 1-215-834-3960 Multi-instance 610 West Germantown Pike 1-800-257-7664 System & User level Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 E-mail/Pager alerts Patrol Dimeric 1-800-464-8672 e-mail/pager/voice 22020 Clarendon St, Suite 204 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 DBGENRL BRADMARK 1-800-ASK-BRAD Windows Drill Down AdHawk Eventus 1-800-871-4871 Windows 1250 Bayhill Dr, Suite 113 Expert Advice San Bruno, CA 94066 Drill Down DBTune Database Solutions Company 1-800-794-0354 automated tuning Richmond, VA
DB AUDIT TRAIL
SQL*Trax Turnstone Software 1-415-851-9576 Archive log analyzer Statistical Usage Audit Trail Point Of Recovery Analysis
DATA MODELING
ERwin Logic Works 1-800-78ERWIN ER Diagrams 214 Carnegie Center 1-609-243-0088 Reverse Engineer Princetone, NJ 08540 S Designor DSP Technologies, Inc 1-708-947-4250 ER Diagrams One Westbrook Center SQL scripts Suite 805 C/S application gen Westchester, IL 60154 Reverse Engineer System Popkin 1-212-571-3434 ER Diagrams Architect 11 Park Place Process Modeling New York, NY 10007 Reverse Engineer InfoModeler Asymetrix 1-800-448-6543 Object Role Modeling Bellevue, WA 1-206-637-1600 SQL Scripts Data Normalizer
PL/SQL and STORED PROCEDURES
Power Tools The Development Group 1-201-825-9511 Documenter for Advanced Technology Relationship Browser 12 Barnfield Ct Stored View Encap. Upper Saddlle River, NJ 07458 SQL Inspector & Deadlock Predictor
Perhaps my categories are all wet, but they seemed reasonable at the time.
Anybody else have a better category list for DBAs?
--Steve
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