Even if all of the features above were not enough, the isql utility included is justification enough for purchasing DBArtisan. This utility provides syntax coloring of your SQL statements and will scroll to the first error encountered when submitting a SQL batch. You can simply execute your SQL batch or you can execute it with options. The execute with options allows you to set an isolation level, specify quoted identifiers, ignore or abort arithmetic overflow, output directly to a file, turn on showplan, statistics, or force a plan. But the third method of execution is what makes this single feature worth the price of the entire tool. The third method is called step execute. This will allow you to step through a batch of SQL. Other tools exist on the market that range upwards of $2000 just for the ability to debug and step through SQL.

DBArtisan gives too many time saving and easy to use features to not be a tool of choice for all DBAs. Enterprise Manager simply doesn’t even compare to the breadth of functionality and the powerful features included in DBArtisan. This is through no fault of Enterprise Manager. Enterprise Manager was created by a group of developers to simply get a basic job done. DBArtisan was developed and designed by a group of DBAs that do this work on a daily basis with many years of real world experience. DBArtisan offers the benefits of these years of experience by eliminating all of the long, time consuming, tedious work DBAs have always gone through.

DBArtisan is made by Embarcadero Technologies.  They can be reached at www.embarcadero.com

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