A German bank had over 2000 developers and 40 DBAs managing more than 1200 databases across different database management systems. The document discusses how the bank used DB PowerStudio tools, including DBArtisan, DB Change Manager, and DB Optimizer, to help maximize DBA productivity and perform tasks like monitoring performance in real-time, maintaining databases, and enabling team collaboration. It provides examples of how the tools helped the bank effectively manage their many data sources worldwide and perform database profiling, SQL tuning, and index analysis to solve performance issues.

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Solving common DBA
tasks at a leading
German Bank with DB
PowerStudio
Sultan Shiffa, Senior Software Consultant
Sultan.Shiffa@embarcadero.com

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Typical Customer profile and Challenges
• Development and database management
distributed across the world
• 2000+ developers, 40 DBAs
• More than 1200 databases
• Managed DBMS: Oracle, DB2 LUW, DB2 z/OS,
MS SQL, Sybase, MySQL
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Business and technical values of DB
PowerStudio for the DBA team
• DB PowerStudio a tool set - DBArtisan, DB
Change Manager, DB Optimizer
• Business and technical values
– Maximize DBA productivity for proactive database
management
– Real-time performance monitoring
– Maintain Databases
– Team Collaboration
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Maximize DBA productivity for proactive
database management
• Effectively manage and access 1200+ data
sources worldwide?
– Explorer view
– Data source management
– Node and object filtering customizing the UI
– SQL Editor – code snippets, run a script against
multiple databases
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Real-time performance monitoring
• Monitoring, Session analysis, locks
• DB Performance analysis : Alerts, Memory,
Workload, Top SQL
• Application level analysis with DB Optimizer
– Profile a database for SQL bottleneck analysis
– SQL Tuning and Visualisation
– Index analysis
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Profile a database
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SQL Tuning
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Index analysis and Visual SQL Tuning
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Maintain databases
• Database migration (even between different
DBMS vendors)
• Storage Analysis- Reorg, block inefficiency
analysis
• Managing changes (Schema, Data, Configuration
Parameters)
• Utilities – import, export, loading, scheduler etc.
• Documentation of database baselines
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Team Collaboration
• Collaboration with other team members (DBAs
do not work alone)
• DBArtisan Integration with Team Server – coolest
and newest feature
• Share profiled results
• DDL Extraction
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