Software tools used to administer databases are
vendor specific, proprietary, and require extensive prior
database knowledge on the part of the database
professional. We have developed dbAnalyst, a vendor
independent database administration and maintenance
tool. dbAnalyst is an Open Architecture database
administration and maintenance tool that can be used to
graphically show a database schema, manage database
objects, import and export database content, and generate
database alerts. dbAnalyst can also be used to reverse
engineer existing databases to uncover database objects
and relationships and diagnose impending database
issues. These features, and a uniform interface to any
database, are supported for Structure Query Languagetype databases.