PRECISE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS INTRODUCES ANALYZE/SQL FOR ORACLE

ALLOWS DBAS AND APPLICATION DEVELOPERS TO GENERATE ALTERNATIVE SQL
STATEMENTS TO ANALYZE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

BRAINTREE, MA, February 5, 1996--Precise Software Solutions today
introduced Analyze/SQL, a software tool which allows database
administrators and applications developers to improve system performance
by modeling potential solutions to optimize database and application
performance.

F. Daniel Haley, president of Precise Software, said, "Analyze/SQL is the
only pre-and post-production performance analysis tool that enables
database administrators and application developers to identify, analyze,
model, and rectify Oracle application performance problems quickly. Tuning
SQL statements to optimize performance doesn't have to be a blind,
trial-and-error process. Developers can use the Alternate/SQL feature to
generate a list of alternative SQL statements, allowing them to flush out
problem SQL statements before the applications go into production.
Additionally, Analyze/SQL reduces the time and risk of evaluating
alternative SQL statements by modeling the impact of changes on overall
database performance."

Analyze/SQL helps application developers reduce development cycles by
accelerating quality assurance and testing functions and eliminating
lengthy rewrites of slow software code. Once the application is in
production, developers and database administrators can use Analyze/SQL to
improve application performance.

Analyze/SQL includes two major features: Impact/SQL and Alternate/SQL.
Impact/SQL allows users to model the results of potential performance
enhancements to understand their impact before the statements are deployed
in production systems. It provides customers with easy- to-use extraction
functionality for presenting SQL statements directly into a convenient,
graphical representation showing both application and program structures.

The Alternate/SQL feature is based on a proprietary knowledge-based engine
which generates alternative SQL statements automatically. DBAs and
developers can model these potential changes to identify both the positive
and negative implications that result from changes to table or index
structures--and choose the alternative statement that offers the best
performance without altering functionality.

PLATFORMS, PRICING, AND AVAILABILITY

Analyze/SQL consists of client software running on PC clients under the
Windows 3.1, Windows `95, and OS/2 operating systems. It also consists of
server software, which runs IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and
other popular UNIX platforms. Analyze/SQL is available immediately, and
the list price ranges from $5,500 to $41,500, depending on configuration.
Volume discounts are available, and bundled pricing is also available for
customers purchasing both Inspect/SQL and Analyze/SQL. Pricing includes 90
days of maintenance.

ABOUT PRECISE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Precise Software Solutions, Ltd. is a privately held software company
solving applications and database performance problems. It is a
well-funded international company that develops, markets and supports the
Precise/SQL suite of products, which address the primary source of
database performance problems--applications. Precise/SQL is used
throughout the development lifecycle by database administrators and
applications developers. Based in Braintree, MA, the company introduced
Precise/SQL for DB2 for VM/VSE mainframe environments in 1993, and
Precise/SQL for Oracle environments in December, 1995.
 
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