Two VDBA utilities, SQL/Test and Performance Monitor, have been split from the VDBA architecture and are now called Visual SQL and Visual Performance Monitor. By isolating these components as smaller, stand-alone executables, users benefit from increased response time because they no longer need to launch the whole VDBA executable.

When launched in VDBA, these new components also help avoid VDBA locking itself. This can happen, for example, when there is an uncommitted query on a table in an SQL Test window, and an operation is performed on the same table in a DOM window opened in the same VDBA instance.

The SQL Assistant has also been split into a stand-alone DOM component. The SQL Assistant can now be accessed from the Ingres Export Assistant, in addition to Ingres Network Utility and VDBA, to help build SQL queries.

Visual SQL and Visual Performance Monitor are accessible from the Start menu, Ingres Visual Manager, Network Utility, VDBA, and the command line.