In today's economy it is imperative that application and database developers work smarter, not harder, to meet the demands put on them by line of business owners, senior management, and the company as a whole. Due to time, money, and resource limitations it is often no longer feasible to rewrite, re-architect, or even replace applications and databases that are core to running a business as a means of achieving better performance or scalability. Likewise, simply throwing additional computing resources at the problem in an attempt to extend the life of an application or system is often no longer feasible due to capital costs. The only option is to get more out of existing systems with as little effort as possible.

It all circles back to optimization. Performance optimization is a key ingredient in the struggle stretch an invested IT dollar to its absolute limit. From a productivity perspective, application and database performance is becoming more critical in everyday business transactions. There is no time to waste as a query drags on. Performance optimization problems can occur at any stage of the development lifecycle, so organizations need to take a three step approach to this problem: prevent, find, fix.

Prevent, Find, Fix

Embarcadero offers database and code optimization tools for application developers, database developers, and database administrators to prevent, find, and fix problems that impact performance throughout the system development lifecycle. Embarcadero performance optimization tools help:

• Data architects deliver performance-oriented schema to development
• Development and QA build high performing applications and databases, and keep poor-performing (and costly) code from reaching production
• Database administrators deal with the reality that issues will always occur in production --but 24x7 monitoring and alerts to catch fires early and fix them quickly before outages occur

Read more about Embarcadero’s Java optimization and database performance optimization tools.Database and code optimization tools detect problems earlier, address issues faster, minimize the chance of deploying poor-performing Java or SQL code, and ultimately deliver higher quality solutions. Continuous monitoring of database performance allows DBAs to quickly find and correct problematic SQL statements and ensure faster response times for better end-user experience. Performance optimization tools can also minimize IT spend on additional hardware to handle peak-load requirements by insuring the applications and databases are optimized to fully utilize existing IT resources.

Embarcadero Optimization Tools

• DB Optimizer is a SQL validation tool that examines SQL queries to uncover inefficiencies and offers alternatives to improve SQL performance and prevent poor-performing SQL from ever reaching the production environment.
• J Optimizer is a Java profiling tool designed to find and fix code problems earlier in the development process. Dynamic code analysis tools identify performance problems such as potential race conditions and unchecked exceptions, and memory and CPU bottlenecks. Advanced code metrics reveal the quality and complexity of the code structure to quickly pinpoint potential problem areas.
• Performance Center is a 24x7 database monitoring tool that tracks and reports on all aspects of database activity like memory, I/O, contention, space, network, objects, users, and SQL code to pinpoint performance problems.