What is DTO?

Distributed Tuning Objects (DTO throughout the rest of this document) are the COM wrapper for the PSQL Distributed Tuning Interface (DTI throughout the rest of this document). DTO is a collection of objects encapsulating DTI. DTO also contains some features that go beyond the capabilities of DTI such as the ability to start and stop the database engines.

DTO enables developers to develop a range of useful, customized server administration tools and interfaces quickly and easily. The power and flexibility of DTO can be applied to the full range of database management and database definition tasks such as production, performance tuning, and metadata administration.

DTO is implemented as a dual interface, in-process server. The developer can use any OLE Automation controller, or create a COM client using many programming languages such as:

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Microsoft Visual Basic

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Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)

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Microsoft Visual C++

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Embarcadero Delphi

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Embarcadero C++ Builder