Ha!  I know what you mean about the $$$ thing.  Funny how mgmt wants us to constantly take on more servers and databases, but not give us any tools to...

We use DBArtisan Workbench from Embarcadero and have the Performance Analyst option for monitoring.  DBArtisan is much better than Enterprise Manager for normal stuff, plus Performance Analyst has a lot...

Check out this paper.  It talks about Embarcadero space products for SQL Server, but it has a lot of good information on fragmentation, including why you might not be seeing...

I wish I had a better report.  I work at a large energy company and we bought the product a while back.  It did do backups pretty quick, but when...

Download a tool I use for SQL management from Embarcadero.  It'll give you a 2 week trial license (I think), which should be plenty of time for you to use...

I used to reindex everything until I read MS's white paper on reorganization where it talked about no benefit being usually realized unless the object size exceeded 1,000 pages or more.  I...

If I had to pick one thing I hated doing manually, this would be it.  So I convinced our managers to buy us Embarcadero's DBArtisan Workbench, which has a component...

I've used the Quest tool too and it's OK.  We've switched to Embarcadero tools now.  We use Performance Center for 24 x 7 monitoring of our SQL Servers and Oracle (only...

I use DBArtisan from Embarcadero Technologies, and the latest version has new performance diagnostic tools that work well.  They added new space and performance monitoring tools along with a historical tracking...

Embarcadero Technologies makes Rapid SQL, which is used by a lot of people. It's completely cross platform, so you can do development with SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, and Sybase...

Are you prefixing your Oracle target table with the correct owner name? Sounds like DTS thinks 'xxxx' is the Oracle owner/schema target.