Embarcadero Technologies announces DBArtisan3 for Oracle; Award-winning database administration tool is now available for the Oracle Universal Server database.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 1997--Embarcadero Technologies announced today the availability of DBArtisan3, the new version of its leading visual database administration tool that supports the Oracler Universal Server database.

DBArtisan 3 is a new 32-bit version of its award-winning tool specifically designed to enhance the productivity of Oracle database administrators and developers in managing distributed Oracle Universal Servers. The product integrates with Oracle Enterprise Manager and will help users to automate essential Oracle administrative tasks.

"DBArtisan 3 is a key product initiative designed to address the needs of customers who have adopted Oracle database technology," said Nigel Myers, Vice President of Embarcadero's Application Management division. "We are pleased to introduce a version of DBArtisan for Oracle users that offers the functionality and ease-of-use that our SQL Server customers have come to expect. DBArtisan 3 represents the cornerstone of Embarcadero's new 32-bit technology for administering heterogeneous database platforms from a single management console."

"Oracle is committed to ensuring that our customers have a broad choice of quality management products. DBArtisan will help expedite the process in which many corporations are moving towards standardizing on Oracle database technology," said Polly Sumner, Oracle's Vice President of Worldwide Alliances.

DBArtisan recently was named the DBA Tool of the Year in a poll of 85,000 DBMS Magazine readers. The product, which has been adopted by over 60% of the Fortune 500, is currently in use by over 15,000 users at sites all over the world. It is well known for its rich feature set and ease-of-use. The product has helped customers reduce the cost of managing distributed database servers by enhancing the productivity of DBAs and increasing the reliability of database administration procedures.

DBArtisan 3 offers a wealth of features to streamline and to automate essential administrative tasks for Oracle7 DBAs and developers:

Schema Management. Browse, create and alter all Oracle database objects in a visual environment without needing to know tedious SQL syntax. Quickly capture the SQL definition of database objects for archival or migration to other database instances. Document database schema by generating comprehensive HTML reports.

Space Management. Easily analyze tablespace free space availability, free space and data segment fragmentation, objects unable to acquire their next extent, objects nearing their MAX EXTENTS limit, and rollback segment performance.

Security Management. Create and manage user accounts, roles, profiles, system and object privileges through a series of powerful visual wizards and editors.

Integrated Scripting Environment. DBArtisan incorporates a powerful SQL scripting environment that allows users to create and to execute SQL and PL/SQL scripts. It features a powerful color-coded SQL editor, automatically formats query result sets and provides direct support for EXPLAIN PLAN analysis and DBMS_OUTPUT.

DBArtisan 3 is shipping now. You can purchase it directly from the Company or through its international distributors. The product supports Oracle 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 and runs on the Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51/4.0 environments. A single-user version lists at $899 with discounts available for multi-user configurations. Users interested in evaluating DBArtisan 3 can download a 30-day trial version from www.embarcadero.com .

Embarcadero Technologies has pioneered the development of visual applications management and development tools for the client/server, data warehousing and the World Wide Web. Embarcadero products are known for their usability and functionality and are designed to interoperate with all major RDBMS platforms. In addition to DBArtisan, Embarcadero offers a number of application development tools including ER/Studio, an entity-relationship modeling tool, the TeamSQL development tool suite, and Rapid SQL, a server-side coding environment. Embarcadero Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco. Embarcadero's World Wide Web address is http://www.embarcadero.com .

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Note to Editors: DBArtisan is a registered trademark of Embarcadero Technologies Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Oracle7 is a trademark of Oracle Corporation. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

CONTACT: Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.

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