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7.0.8 - Released 2010-06-16

Bugs Fixed
Connection Setup
"There's no Command with idref: getCatalogs" error and ConcurrentModificationException may occur during connect
DB Support: MySQL
ON UPDATE clause missing in DDL for TIMESTAMP columns
See the discussion here
The UNSIGNED keyword is missing in the DDL
See the discussion here
DB Support: SQL Server
Remove the Rename action for View, Procedure, Function and Trigger objects, because there is no safe way to rename these object types
DB Support: Sybase ASE
Check constraints larger than 255 characters are not shown correctly in the DDL
Remove the Rename action for View, Procedure, Function and Trigger objects, because there is no safe way to rename these object types
Grid Component
Exiting DbVisualizer first disconnects all database connections then asks whether unsaved edits in the Data tab should be saved or not. Selecting Save at this stage have no effect.
OS Support: Windows
Unexpected error may appear if using Java 1.6.0_19+ on Windows (java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.pidlsEqual...)
See the discussion here
Query Builder
If a large chunk of an imported SELECT statement cannot be recognized, the error window gets very wide
SQL Commander
Comments are not preserved in anonymous SQL blocks
Running large scripts with the @run command may result in an IndexOutOfBoundsException error

7.0.7 - Released 2010-05-25

Improvements
DB Support: MySQL
Add support for declaring Procedure/Function characteristics in the Create Procedure/Function dialogs
See the discussion here
SQL Commander
Show an error message if the path specified for the @cd command doesn't exist or isn't a directory
See the discussion here
Bugs Fixed
Create/Alter Table
Open Create Table and add a new column, if the database connection is lost then an NPE is displayed
Size information is declared in the wrong position for FOR BIT DATA data types
DB Support: DB2 LUW
CHAR/VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA are shown as CHAR/VARCHAR in DDL
DB Support: MySQL
Key constraint treated as a separate index in DDL for Export
See the discussion here
DB Support: Oracle
Explain Plan doesn't work with Oracle 11.2
See the discussion here
DB Support: Sybase ASE
Problem browsing database objects if quoted_identifier is off
See the discussion here
Export
The AppendFile="clear" option does not clear an existing file when exporting to XLS files
Grid Component
There is a newline after last copied cell
Wrong HEX representation in the Cell Viewer
SQL Commander
The @delimiter command does not work when used in a script called with the @run command
See the discussion here
Variable values for variables with option "nobind" are not quoted when needed
"Processing Command" message should show SQL with any control characters (newline, tab) and multiple white spaces replaced with single white space

7.0.6 - Released 2010-04-21

Improvements
DB Support: DB2 z/OS
Enable using the schema selected in the SQL Commander as the default schema for the connection
Import
Clear the log after import
See the discussion here
SQL Commander
Fix progress message by splitting "Acquiring connection..." into "Acquiring connection..." and "Executing..."
The Max Rows/Max Chars warning should be made more visible than it is currently
See the discussion here
Bugs Fixed
DB Support: Firebird
The generated CREATE INDEX statement does not work with Firebird
DB Support: Informix
BOOLEAN and BLOB columns are shown to be included in all indexes in the Indexes tab and subnode for a table node
See the discussion here
DB Support: JavaDB/Derby
Various errors accessing a database created with TERRITORY_BASED collation
DB Support: Oracle
Clone a user and then clone the new user don't work properly
DB Support: PostgreSQL
NOT NULL constraints are shown in the Check Constraints tab in the Alter Table dialog
See the discussion here
Export
Export in CSV should add a newline on last row
See the discussion here
Export to clipboard results in an error
General
Opening the browser for Online Resources or Users Guide doesn't work if the default browser is Opera
SQL Commander
Executing just a single client side command, e.g. "@export on", results in an error dialog
See the discussion here
Stopping the SQL Commander while the database connection has been interrupted may result in an unrecoverable error
Table Data Editor
Sub queries in table filters (Data tab) may be corrupted
The object path delimiter was changed in 7.0 from " | " to "/". Any table filters are not updated to reflect this change resulting in no filters will appear in the Data tab
See the discussion here
Tool Properties
Max SQL history entries limit is not migrated when upgrading from pre 7.0 versions
See the discussion here

7.0.5 - Released 2010-03-16

Improvements
Connection Tab
DbVisualizer should stay connected even if the driver cannot handle setting auto commit while initializing the connection
See the discussion here
DB Support: MySQL
Fail to navigate the objects tree if "show databases" privilege is missing
See the discussion here
DB Support: Oracle
Add new view for DBA->Session->Plan Data that show the plan information along with the SQL for the current session
See the discussion here
Import
In the Import Destination->Database Table pane add column for "File Data Type" and make it editable
Round estimated character column sizes for new table up to closest multiple of 10
Monitor
Add an Auto Adjust setting in the Monitor window to control whether the timer should be adjusted automatically (default) or not
See the discussion here
SQL Commander
Add new property to control whether the "Auto Commit is OFF" confirmation window should be displayed for any statement (except SELECTs)
SQL Editor
New setting to control upper/lower-case of auto completed names
Table Data Editor
Add "Key Columns" button in the data editing result window (used to re-define WHERE columns in case old table row cannot be identified)
See the discussion here
Web
Describe workaround how to disable so that the MySQL Connector/J driver should not cache all result set data in memory leading to OutOfMemory in DbVisualizer
See the discussion here
Bugs Fixed
Chart
Specifying a directory as the destination for export grid, graph or chart gives an error
Database Objects Tree
"Clear Visited State" should also clear the state for any child objects
Reload objects tree action should reload all objects one level up and not only the selected object
DB Support: Informix
Invalid CHECK constraints in DDL with long column names
See the discussion here
DB Support: PostgreSQL
Invalid quoting of character default values in DDL
DDL Generator
Showing DDL for a View causes an exception if the AS keyword is not immediately preceded by a blank
Monitor
Chart series may not be saved between DbVisualizer sessions
Using column values from the previous execution of a monitor doesn't work properly
See the discussion here
References
Specifying a directory as the destination for export grid, graph or chart gives an error
SQL Commander
"Pin New Result Sets" doesn't work for second editor even if it is the default between sessions
See the discussion here
A line comment before a "go" statement delimiter causes "go" to be appended to the preceding statement
See the discussion here
SQL Editor
Using Save As in SQL Commander should automatically add the ".sql" extension
See the discussion here

7.0.4 - Released 2010-02-24

Bugs Fixed
Database Objects Tree
Reload in Objects Tree or Reconnect a database connection may result in an error

7.0.3 - Released 2010-02-23

Improvements
Database Profile: Actions
The Actions dialog should show the Connection Mode border to hilight production, test or production mode
Database Objects Tree
Bind Shift+Double-click in object tree to show selected object in separate window
DB Support: SQL Server
Setting Max Rows limits not only the number of rows returned from a query but also affected rows by updates, deletes, etc.
DB Support: Sybase ASE
Setting Max Rows limits not only the number of rows returned from a query but also affected rows by updates, deletes, etc.
Docs: Users Guide
Add new users guide document specifically for the command line interface with usage examples
Favorites
Opening a database object favorite should also change the tab in the Object View
Grid Component
Add "Copy to Clipboard" for inline filter
Add support for "ORDER BY xxx" in the Data tab "Inline Filter" field
Import
Import log should show finished time
See the discussion here
Procedure Editor
Minimize impact of a lost connection, so that edits can be saved before reconnecting
Query Builder
Add a way to include a table by typing its name
See the discussion here
Scripts
Allow newline characters in a @call statement
SQL Commander
Clean up the Execute processing so that a disconnected database cannot temporarily cause the GUI to freeze
Add a "@set maxrows nn" and "@set maxchars nn" client-side commands to control Max Rows and Max Chars from scripts
Bugs Fixed
Command Line Support (dbviscmd)
Can't launch the dbviscmd/dbvisgui bat scripts in other directories than the installation directory for DbVisualizer
See the discussion here
Check for Update
Opening "Check for Update" may result in an error
Create/Alter Table
Adding a column in the Create Table dialog adds it at the end, not after the selected column
Database Objects Tree
Shift+Click in the database tree switches to the Object View tab but details for selected node is not updated
See the discussion here
DB Support: SQL Server
Invalid SQL used for extracting table DDL info for SQL Server 2000
Grid Component
Copying data from the Aggregation for Selection window to clipboard may result in weird formatting due to floating point error
Fix so that the "Inline Filter" preserve any "ORDER BY" that has been specified in the "FIlter & Sort" window
OS Support: Mac OS X
On Mac OS X with Mac OS Look and Feel sometimes the right click menu is unresponsive in the Databases tree
SQL Commander
A hang may occur if having two separate instances of DbVisualizer open at the same time and executing SQL in one of them
See the discussion here
User Settings
Importing user settings creates any bookmark and monitor folders in the PREFSDIR root directory rather than in PREFSDIR/Bookmarks and PREFSDIR/Monitors

7.0.2 - Released 2010-02-03

Bugs Fixed
Database Profile: View
Re-introduce the debugging feature of viewers i.e Ctrl+Click tab
See the discussion here
Import
Filename don't appear in grid window title when doing import to Grid
SQL Commander
Massive resource usage (threads and memory) when running a large script
See the discussion here
SQL History
Entering an invalid value in the History Max Entries field results in an error on next start-up
See the discussion here

7.0.1 - Released 2010-01-29

Improvements
General
Show full text of entries that don't fit in a list as tooltips
DB Support: Cache
Add support for T-SQL style join WHERE clause operators ("=*" and "*=")
DB Support: Oracle
Optimize query used to get Tablespace Files
See the discussion here
Bugs Fixed
Check for Update
Check for Update window is truncated
See the discussion here
DB Support: SQL Server
ClassCastException when generating DDL
DB Support: Sybase ASE
ClassCastException when generating DDL
General
Stop in the Data tab or SQL Commander does not stop long running statement
Grid Component
Copying and pasting a CLOB value results in "CLOB, xxx Bytes" instead of the value
See the discussion here
Double click below the data in a grid results in an error
Query Builder
Group By is not set when loading a SELECT statement that use table name aliases
SQL Commander
Current database connection, database and schema are cleared when loading new file into editor
See the discussion here
Quick File Open may when invoked result in a NullPointerException
Recent Files menu is slow to show if any file is located on a network disk
See the discussion here
The Log in SQL Commander keeps only the log entries for the last execution even if Auto Clear is disabled
See the discussion here
SQL Editor
Dragging an object from the databases tree into the SQL editor visually indicates the focus is in the editor but it isn't
See the discussion here
SQL History
Execution in SQL Commander gets slower and slower with increasing number of SQL history files
See the discussion here
Tool Properties
Daylight savings time adjustments may occur even when default timezone is set to UTC

7.0 - Released 2010-01-15

New Features
Bookmarks
Redesign the old bookmark management into new features for SQL History, Bookmark and Monitor scripts
Command Line Support (dbviscmd)
Add command line support for executing SQLs
Connection Wizard
Add a "database ping" feature which will test on TCP level whether there is a server responding on the specified host/port
Database Profile: Actions
Add action dialogs for setting comments on columns and other database object types
DB Support: Oracle
Add new "TNS" connection mode for Oracle. DbVisualizer will then show a list with all connections defined in tnsnames.ora
Export
Add an Export Table feature
Allow BLOB/CLOB data to be exported and imported
Favorites
Add new Favorites Editor and Favorites Toolbar feature for database objects and script files
General
Require a minimum of Java 1.6
Grid Component
Add a "Aggregation Data for Selection" feature with aggregate functions for Date, Time, String, Number, etc.
Import
Allow BLOB/CLOB data to be exported and imported
Make it possible to create a new table while importing table data
See the discussion here
Procedure Editor
Add support for execution of functions/procedure
References
Support export of graphs in SVG, PNG and PDF format
SQL Commander
Add a "Quick File Open" feature to search and load Recent Files, Bookmarks, SQL History and Monitor files into the SQL editor (mimic IntelliJ Ctrl+N popup)
See the discussion here
Add support for parameter markers representing OUT/INOUT parameters
Make it possible controlling statement DELIMITER via a client side command
See the discussion here
Improvements
Bookmarks
Add multi bookmark (script file) deletion
Add option to insert selected bookmark in the SQL Editor and not only replace everything in it
See the discussion here
Check for Update
Add "Proxy Settings" link in the Check for Update feature
Show optional "Comment" in Check for Update feature + minor fixes
Connection Properties
The auto commit/rollback feature at disconnect need to be revised as it may block the GUI
Database Profile: Tree
Add a "Copy Database URL" and a "Copy Object Path" action in the objects tree right click menu
DB Support: Other
Remove support for PointBase and DaffodilDB
Export
Allow Export Schema to export objects to separate files
See the discussion here
Make it possible to export to new destination: SQL Commander->New Editor
See the discussion here
Allow use of ${dbvis-object}$ (former ${table}$) variable in other fields than just the filename
Possible to use ${dbvis-date/dbvis-time/dbvis-timestamp}$ variables in filename for @export commands
General
Add capability to open multiple main windows (File->New Window)
Upgrade to new icon collection
Disable client/server capability in the DbVisualizer GUI (via command line arguments)
Make command line argument "-up" deprecated and replace it with new "-prefsdir" argument
Remove the command line arguments for the DbVisualizer GUI used to control connection setup and execution control. These are now managed by the new command line interface
Grid Component
Save column widths when dbvis.savedatacolumns=true
See the discussion here
Use the "Execute" key binding to start filtering in the Data tab inline filter field and filtering window
Monitor
Reload of a result set that was produced by a procedure call may give a warning that result set cannot be re-executed since it is part of a multi statement execution
See the discussion here
Navigator
Allow for multiple selections in the Table Navigator grid and equal number of target nodes will show in the diagram
Performance/Stability
Various operations, such as Reload of a tab in the Object view, hangs the GUI if the database connection has dropped
References
Add magnifying glass zoom
Do not show the member list for ENUM and SET column types, since it can be very long
Add capability to pan the references graph with the mouse instead of scrollbars only
Enhance the "Specified Tables" feature so that it is easier to choose what tables to show in the references graph
The data types presented for a table are sometimes too verbose
See the discussion here
Scripts
Should be possible to define default target editor when exporting or double-click a bookmark and history entry
See the discussion here
SQL Commander
If @ is used as the anonymous block begin delimiter, no client-side commands are recognized
Extend the Permission feature with controls for Commit/Rollback/Set Autocommit
Loading a file with File->Open Recent should not show file chooser but instead load file directly
Make it possible to run scripts of unlimited size with the @run command
SQL History
Show "bytes" column in the History feature for each history file
Table Data Editor
Activate Table Data Filter with same key binding as execute in SQL Commander (Ctrl+Enter, Cmd+Enter, etc).
Bugs Fixed
Table Data Editor
Mac OS X: The first character is removed when editing in the grid and form data editors
SQL Commander
Initiating SQL->Execute using key binding may execute in a non visible editor
General
Dock icons for minimized windows are represented by a badly scaled image (these should not appear on OS X)
Performance/Stability
UI locking up on database lock
Tool Properties
TimeZone info in Connection tab status bar is empty on Windows 7
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