Certain dialogs and menus in Visual DBA, Ingres Import Assistant, and Ingres Network Utility were redesigned to make these tools more intuitive and user friendly. For example, the advanced features on many dialogs are now hidden.

The changes are designed to help new users more easily perform basic tasks such as establishing a remote connection, creating a database, creating a table, populating a table, generating statistics, backing up and restoring a database, and creating a user.