Resources

Guides, whitepapers and technical articles on Oracle, SQL Server and PowerBuilder security, code analysis, performance tuning, migration and compliance.

Security

SQL Injection in PowerBuilder: Find and Fix Code Injection Vulnerabilities

How SQL injection attacks exploit PowerBuilder's dynamic SQL patterns, and how to detect vulnerable code automatically with Visual Expert. Also covers path traversal and OS command injection.

Visual Expert 2026 Read →
Security

How to Find Security Risks in PowerBuilder Code

Use Visual Expert's static analysis (SAST) capabilities to detect hardcoded passwords, SQL injection patterns and other vulnerabilities in your PowerBuilder code.

Visual Expert 2026 Read →
Security

PowerBuilder Code Inspection Rules for Security

Complete reference of Visual Expert's security-focused code inspection rules for PowerBuilder—covering injection, credentials, encryption and more.

Visual Expert 2026 Read →
Security

How to Add Single Sign-On to PowerBuilder Applications

Implement SSO for your PowerBuilder applications with Visual Guard, supporting Active Directory, Entra ID and federated identity providers.

Visual Guard 2025 Read →
Compliance

Role-Based Security in PowerBuilder Applications

Implement role-based access control (RBAC) to manage permissions at the application level and meet audit requirements.

Visual Guard 2025 Read →
Code Quality

Visual Expert AI: Advanced Code Analysis

Combine traditional static analysis with AI to explain business logic, optimize code, generate comments and suggest fixes for PowerBuilder, Oracle and SQL Server.

Visual Expert 2025 Read →
Code Quality

AI-Assisted Code Corrections with Visual Expert

Receive AI-powered corrections to fix code issues, enforce coding standards and improve structure, readability and long-term maintainability.

Visual Expert 2025 Read →
Code Quality

Visual Expert 2025: Browser-Based Code Analysis for Teams

Access code analysis, security scanning and documentation from any browser—no desktop installation required. Real-time collaboration across Windows, macOS and Linux.

Visual Expert 2025 Read →
Performance

Optimizing SQL Server Code: Performance Tuning

Identify the slowest stored procedures, analyze execution times and optimize your SQL Server T-SQL code using Visual Expert's performance analysis features.

Visual Expert 2025 Read →
Performance

Identify the Slowest Code in your Database

Tutorial: find bottlenecks in Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server T-SQL and PowerBuilder code by combining runtime statistics with static analysis.

Visual Expert 2024 Read →
Migration

9 Must-See Features to Migrate your PowerBuilder Application

Code cleanup, impact analysis, CRUD matrix, dependency review, DLL inventory—the essential Visual Expert features to prepare and execute a PowerBuilder migration.

Visual Expert 2024 Read →
Migration

PowerBuilder 2022 Migration Guide with Visual Expert

Identify unsupported features, detect non-compliant code with code inspection, and perform impact analysis to ensure a smooth migration to PB 2022 and higher.

Visual Expert 2024 Read →
Whitepaper

Oracle Database Migration: 8 Phases to Migrate PL/SQL Code

Free whitepaper covering assessment, cleanup, dependency analysis, refactoring, documentation and optimization for Oracle 11g to 19c/21c schema and PL/SQL migration projects.

Visual Expert 2025 Download →
Whitepaper

Modernizing PowerBuilder Security with Windows Authentication

Whitepaper on integrating Active Directory and Entra ID authentication into PowerBuilder applications using Visual Guard—SSO, MFA and token-based flows.

Visual Guard 2025 Download →
Webcast

PowerBuilder TV — Technical Webcasts

Watch recorded sessions from Elevate conferences and technical presentations covering PowerBuilder development, security and modernization topics.

PowerBuilderTV 2025 Watch →