Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Embarcadero unveils optimization tools

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Apr 8, 20091 min

J Optimizer, DB Optimizer, and Performance Center profile Java and SQL

Last Thursday, Greg Nerpouni gave me a briefing about and demo of Embarcadero Technologies’ three new and enhanced performance optimization tools for Java and SQL applications:

  • J Optimizer 2009 for Java profiling and optimization
  • DB Optimizer 1.5 for SQL profiling and tuning
  • Performance Center for automated 24/7 database monitoring

[ See also: “Embarcadero offers Java tool for developers” ]

J Optimizer is based on the Optimizeit product that Embarcadero acquired with the CodeGear division of Borland. It has the same profiler, thread debugger, and code coverage components you may remember; in addition, it has a Request Analyzer to track performance bottlenecks at the JDBC, JMS, JNDI, JSP, EJB, CCI, and Web services level.

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DB Optimizer 1.5 is the newest version of Embarcadero’s SQL profiling and tuning IDE. New features include continuous profiling, full multi-platform support, a revamped interface and full Unicode support.

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Performance Center is 24/7 database monitoring tool that tracks and reports on database activity basically at the I/O level. It reports memory, I/O, contention, space, network, objects, and users, and it can drill down to SQL code to pinpoint performance problems. Performance Center is available now and the new 2.7 release is scheduled to launch in Q2 2009.

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Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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