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Database Workbench v2.7.0 released!

[05-09-2005]
We are proud to announce version 2.7.0 of Database Workbench, which includes the first version of your Oracle supporting module! Not all Oracle features are supported, but be assured that future versions will support more.

Besides Oracle support, there are also many bugfixes and small enhancements.

New Features

  • Oracle Database support:
    • support for schema objects:
      • Tables
      • Views
      • Synonyms
      • Sequences
      • Stored Procedures
      • Stored Functions
      • Packages
      • Indices
      • Triggers
      • Constraints
    • Tested on Oracle 8, 9 and 10
  • Reports "print to file": PDF/RTF/HTML/Lotus/Quattro/BMP
  • MSSQL: "Syntax Check" in Stored Procedure and Stored Function Editors
  • MSSQL: Index Editor allows re-calculating index statistics
  • MSSQL: allow editting of PK name for new tables/tables without a PK
  • Shortcuts/context menu options to upper/lower/initcap case words or selected blocks
  • Grant Manager: added grid wide grant/revoke/reset to context popup menu in the grid
  • Added "Re-compile All Functions" and "Re-compile Function" to DB Navigator
  • Describe Companion lists Stored Functions and Procedures
  • Schema Migrator:
    • ADO source supports migrating Foreign Keys if the driver supports it
    • ODBC source supports Foreign Key Constraints if the driver supports it
    • ODBC source supports Indices if the driver supports it

Enhancements

  • Minor GUI enhancements
  • User configurable code completion delay
  • CSV Import:
    • accepts files that don't quote strings
    • added 1-on-1 automap when "first row is header" is unchecked
    • enhanced error reporting: faulty lines are saved to another file.
    • execute SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON for MS SQL tables
  • DataPump and TDG executes "set identity_insert ON" before transferring/generating data to MS SQL tables
  • DataPump lists source values on record transfer error
  • Right click "Schema" node in DB Navigator and select "Search in Schema" to search that schema
  • All Object Editors have their toolbars split up and positions saved
  • BLOB Editor uses less memory on (larger) BLOBs
  • New objects get added alphabetically in the DB Navigator
  • Grant Manager: can extract GRANT/REVOKE statements for current grantee only instead of always for all grantees
  • MSSQL: Added "Connect As" to Database popup menu
  • MSSQL: Ability to enter a different username/password combination for each available database
  • MySQL/Oracle: ability to register servers with the same hostname, but different additional attributes like "port"
  • IB/Fb: creating triggers at the same position will raise a warning
  • IB/Fb: improvements with name-warnings wrt special characters
  • Fb: support for Firebird 2.0 system defined external functions (cannot be editted or dropped)
  • IB/Fb/MSSQL/MySQL: Ability to edit hostname for registered servers
  • MySQL: added support for CSV and ARCHIVE table types
  • MySQL: ability to add PK/autoinc fields for existing tables
  • MySQL: ability to delete columns that are part of the PK

Fixes

  • MSSQL: items didn't get added with owner name in the Describe Companion after the initial init of the DC
  • MSSQL: multi-directional indices didn't "update" its column direction for each column after changing and saving
  • MSSQL: Stored Procedure and Function editor didn't have the right popupmenu in the editor part
  • MSSQL: fixed some problems related to weird collations and SQL-query aliasses
  • MSSQL: fixed "sort buffer exceeded" problem with fetching tables/views for some databases
  • MSSQL: fixed DataPump error with transferring data into IMAGE column
  • MSSQL: doing "table fragmentation" and "rebuild index" could fail with message "no clustered index available" on the first attempt
  • MSSQL: Grant manager couldn't grant "Execute" or "Reference" on "User Defined Functions"
  • MSSQL: small error fixed for object locks not related to any database
  • MSSQL: GRANTs weren't extracted for User Defined Functions when doing a full schema DDL extract
  • MSSQL: statement recording for DDL didn't work properly from editors or SQL Editor
  • MSSQL: duplicating a table with a PK would result in the same PK-name being used, resulting in an error
  • MSSQL: DBW could lock up when having an uncommitted metadata change and doing a "refresh list" in the DB Navigator
  • MSSQL: removed error "[newtable] not found" on duplicating Table with PK and without "editting before saving"
  • MSSQL/MySQL: adding a PK in the Table Editor wouldn't display it in the Database Navigator
  • MSSQL/MySQL: Duplicating a table with a PK would result in an AV when closing the connection
  • IB/Fb/MSSQL: can no longer enter text in Procedure/Function editor when no procedure of function is selected
  • Fb: fixed bug when adding new indices and having "show table name" on in the DB Navigator
  • Fb: migrating/comparing an index to Firebird could fail with an AV
  • Fb: fixed [FOR] EXECUTE STATEMENT [var] warning "Value assigned to [var] never used" in debugger/syntax check.
  • Fb: Debugger/syntax check didn't support optional "VARIABLE" in DECLARE [VARIABLE] for Firebird 1.5 and up
  • Fb: Syntax check didn't recognize Firebird 1.5 GDSCODE/SQLCODE context variables
  • Fb: "bigint" wasn't supported when migrating to Firebird 1.5
  • Fb: Firebird 2.0 system defined external functions raised exceptions
  • IB/Fb: fixed a rename-column error if you re-set the column name to it's original name
  • IB/Fb: fixed a client-side exception happening if you changed a column from a varchar to non-varchar datatype
  • IB/Fb: reserved words in columns are quoted (eg: "TYPE") when performing inserts/updates via data grids
  • IB/Fb: single line comments (-- comment) wasn't valid for the Syntax Check
  • IB/Fb: fixed bug in debugger with two SUSPENDs in the same loop returning the wrong values (current and next)
  • IB/Fb: fixed register a database on different server than the newly registered server.
  • IB/Fb: fixed an error in the Procedure debugger and large numerics
  • MySQL: using the top left corner in the Grant Manager didn't grant all privileges
  • MySQL: removed possible AV when searching for a constraint in the DB Navigator and not finding it
  • MySQL: fetching metadata failed on MySQL 5 because of reported table type "memory" instead of "heap"
  • MySQL: fixed an error with the PK DDL
  • DataPump:
    • didn't show proper image for temp-tables in "destination" area
    • auto-map also mapped columns for computed destination columns
    • selecting a different ADO query syntax and then changing the connection type didn't set it to the normal syntax again
    • "index out of bounds" error when using ODBC as the target
  • Schema Compare:
    • no script for Sequences/Generators was created
    • procedure parameters (IB/Fb) weren't modified and script collected
    • procedure/function parameter differences weren't properly detected
    • when both tables didn't have a PK, the SC would say "PK name different"
    • DDL compare: missed in-between-spaces as differences
  • Schema Migration:
    • constraints would be migrated twice when selected and using the option "include table constraints"
    • Migrating from engines that don't support domains to engines that do support domains raised lots of warnings "domain ignored" while this doesn't apply
    • some ADO drivers don't support indices, this would result in an exception
  • Fixed an error with adding data in grids, commit the transaction but ignoring the last inserted/changed row.
  • Revised Export Data system: all exports are possible to folder, even for single table. All bugs in 2.6 fixed.
  • Fixed problem with exporting missing "auto-inc" fields for XLS, DBF and Lotus
  • DWX Import failed when rows couldn't be imported
  • Assertion failure when creating new indices for duplicated tables
  • "Users" were missing from the "Find Object" in the DB Navigator (for database engines that support schema-specific users)
  • Exporting datetime/time to INSERTs would export "milliseconds" in the wrong format
  • TDG: random length string did not honor lower boundary due to an error
  • Fixed "Field xx not found" in BLOB Editor when switching tables while having the BLOB Editor open.
  • Removed memory leak in all generic object editors