Take a look at the new features and tools you can use with ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1.
The Geodatabase Toolset (GDBT) for ArcCatalog provides the tools to assist you with monitoring, investigating, and reporting the performance of your multiuser geodatabase. With the GDBT, you can monitor the day-to-day health of your geodatabase and better investigate performance issues.
The GDBT works with geodatabases stored on SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, DB2, or PostgreSQL databases. It provides a wide variety of information including
GDBT for ArcMap, which provides geodatabases monitoring, investigating, and reporting tools for ArcMap, will be available in Q1 of 2010.