DataTools, Inc. Announces SQL-BackTrack 2.1 for Sybase.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1995--DataTools, Inc. announced today the newest release of its popular SQL-BackTrack(TM) for Sybase, a Database-Aware(TM) backup and recovery product for SYBASE(R) databases. Version 2.1's new features enhance the support of very large databases on SYBASE System An earlier family of SQL development tools from Sybase that included SQL Server, SQL Toolset (design, development and control) and Client/Services Interfaces (distributed database architecture). It is no longer supported. See SQL Server. 10(TM). Dump striping Interleaving or multiplexing data to increase speed. See disk striping. striping - data striping , the ability to split large backups across multiple tape drives, is a particularly useful feature for very large databases. Without this capability, a full physical backup may take several hours and exceed the backup window. SQL-BackTrack Version 2.1 is available immediately. "Dump striping is one way that we are trying to support the very large database customers, who tend to be on the leading edge when it comes to database management problems," said Jim Nisbet, executive vice president of DataTools. "Combined with our incremental backups and dump compression, customers striping to multiple devices should see extremely high dump rates. More importantly, they can still recover a specific database object from a striped backup which can potentially save hours in recovery." "As a valued Open Solutions Partner, DataTools complements Sybase's systems management product offerings, " said David Sohm, vice president of partner and channel marketing for Sybase. "The additional functionality provided by SQL-BackTrack has made it a very popular backup and recovery solution for Sybase customers over the last two years." SQL-BackTrack for Sybase provides backup and recovery capabilities including true incremental backup, object-level backup and recovery, data migration, integration with file system backups, compression, encryption, and automation. Features that specifically aid backups for very large databases are dump striping, incremental backups (writing only the data changed since the last backup) and dump compression. Configuration, Price and Availability SQL-BackTrack 2.1 supports SYBASE product versions 4.x as well as SYBASE System 10. It runs on SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. . SQL-BackTrack is immediately available from both BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. and DataTools offices, agents, and distributors worldwide. Existing customers in the extended support program receive the upgrade free of charge. For new licenses, SQL-BackTrack cost $4595 per SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. . About DataTools DataTools, Inc., located in Palo Alto, CA, develops products that ease the burden on database administrators by providing mainframe-class database management functionality for client/server databases. DataTools is a member of the Sybase Open Solutions Program. Sybase and DataTools work together to support SQL-BackTrack for Sybase customers. DataTools, Inc. was founded in 1991 and can be reached at 800-721-8665 or outside the USA at 415/842-9100. About BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of DataTools products. BMC Software is a worldwide developer and vendor of Cooperative Enterprise Management Solutions that automate application and data management across heterogeneous legacy and open systems environments. BMC Software is cooperating with leading vendors throughout the computer industry to provide its customers with integrated enterprise-wide data, system, application and network management solutions. BMC Software is headquartered in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the , and currently offers more than 70 products. BMC Software can be reached at 800/841-2031 or outside the USA at 713/918-8800. CONTACT: DataTools, Inc. Tania
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