Microsoft SQL Server

With the release of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft continues to become a proven leader in the enterprise database market by addressing the high performance, high availability needs of mission-critical applications. The growth of SQL Server is challenging database professionals who need to effectively design, manage, and deploy more data in cross-platform environments with fewer resources. Embarcadero helps IT departments extend their expertise across multiple databases in response to an increase in users, data, and complexity.

Microsoft SQL Challenges
Embarcadero Microsoft SQL Server Solutions
Data Management
For a new or existing SQL Server database, or complex migrations between databases, modeling accelerates the process of defining, understanding, and moving data. Embarcadero ER/Studio offers a multi-level data modeling application for logical and physical database design and construction. Embarcadero DT/Studio provides a flexible, scalable, and affordable ETL solution for data movement and migration projects.

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Database Development
Creating efficient and optimized database code and accelerating the delivery of critical database applications is a goal of all database developers. Embarcadero RapidSQL provides an integrated environment for cross-platform database development that enables developers to build, maintain, document, optimize, and deploy database applications. ER/Studio, a model-driven database design solution, offers code generation implementation capabilities to help translate data models into databases. Embarcadero Change Manager helps developers track complex database schema changes to retain control and mitigate the differences between development and deployment environments.

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Database Management

As databases are deployed in cross-platform environments, the management of increasingly complex data structures and the continued growth of data volumes becomes an issue for resource bound database administrators. Embarcadero DBArtisan provides a comprehensive cross-platform database management solution that minimizes the effort needed for complex tasks and maximizes the productivity of database administrators to ensure the availability, performance, and security of SQL Server databases throughout the enterprise.

In today's fast moving business world, any number of factors can dictate changes to enterprise applications. Because complex dependencies can exist between different database structures, a change to one item can cascade unanticipated changes elsewhere in the application. If not properly analyzed and tested, errors in change control can lead to costly application outages and the loss of data. Embarcadero Change Manager helps you safeguard against such problems. It provides the ability to capture, version, compare and propagate database schemas as they change over time, thereby eliminating the need for error-prone manual processes.

There is perhaps no greater responsibility for the database administrator than establishing proper backup and recovery plans. But, larger databases, shortening backup windows and security concerns make the job of backup and recovery management more complex than ever for today's SQL Server DBA. Embarcadero Backup Analyst solves these problems by offering advanced capabilities that cause backups to run dramatically faster and consume considerably less storage, with greater security.

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Performance Management
Protecting the performance and availability of key databases is vital to the success of any organization. Determining the critical performance bottlenecks in your database is often a time consuming process. Embarcadero Performance Analyst takes the guesswork out of performance management and helps you make things right again. It provides key insight into the complex world of database performance. It provides intelligent and strong detailed diagnostic information to get to the heart of any episode of performance degradation.

Managing space is vital to ensuring the availability and performance of your databases. Because space management plays such a key role in a database's uptime and overall performance, it is important that a database administrator understand the various types of space bottlenecks that can occur in a database. Embarcadero Space Analyst provides sophisticated diagnostic capabilities to help you effectively troubleshoot bottlenecks and performance inefficiencies that result from poor space management.

Intelligent insight into the past and present usage of key databases is what every database professional needs to successfully plan for the future. Collecting and analyzing this data is normally a laborious and time-consuming process. Embarcadero Capacity Analyst eases this burden with powerful facilities that make it easy to collect all the data that's necessary for smart database analysis. It provides historical trend analysis along with smart forecasting abilities that allow you to plan for the future needs of your critical databases.

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Performance Monitoring
Increased workloads, decreased numbers of resources, and shrinking application lifecycles mean less time for performance monitoring. Embarcadero Performance Center quickly ascertains a database’s complete performance picture to effectively guarantee the availability and performance of critical databases. It provides round the clock, 24x7, coverage for the most critical databases in the enterprise. Problems are proactively detected regardless of when they occur, and before they threaten a database’s overall health.

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Web Seminars

SQL Server Administration - Beyond the Basics Using Rapid SQL to Speed Development on SQL Server 2005 Identifying and Debugging Trouble Code on SQL Server 2005 The High Performance MS SQL Server DBA

Press Releases

Embarcadero Has Earned 'Front Runner' Status From Microsoft Corp 2005 SQL Server Magazine Readers Choice Awards

Technical Papers

Data Lifecycle Management for MS SQL Server The Need for Better SQL Server Backups Managing SQL Server Performance with Performance Analyst Smart SQL Server Space Management with Space Analyst