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7.1.5 - Released 2011-02-24

Bugs Fixed
Data tab
Decimal number precision may be cleared if using another Decimal Format than "Unformatted" and the formatting rules for the current locale use a "," as decimal separator
Export
Exception thrown when exporting table data with a driver that does not provide schema/catalog info, such as the Transoft driver
General
Having Tool Properties->General->Table Data->Show Table Row Count enabled may lock the GUI if two or more main windows are displayed
Grid Component
The auto column width formatter sometimes truncate columns showing "..." at the end cell
SQL Editor
SQL editors may lose sync with what file is being loaded and what file is reported in the editor title
See the discussion here

7.1.4 - Released 2010-11-23

Improvements
Connection Setup
Change the variable delimiters in Connection setup details from $$...$$ to the same used in SQL Commander (default ${...}$)
See the discussion here
SQL Commander
Format the numbers in execution result counters in the progress information area
Bugs Fixed
Connection Setup
Jumping between two database connections with the same URL may accidentally modify the second connections URL if editing the URL in the first connection
DB Support: DB2 LUW
Explain plan can only be performed with EXPLAIN_xxx tables being stored in the login schema even if using "set current sqlid = "<anotherschema>" as connection hook
DB Support: Informix
The DBA keyword is missing in the source loaded into the source editor for procedures and functions
DB Support: JavaDB/Derby
Exporting indexes for a table fails with Derby 10.6
DB Support: Oracle
Explain Plan in Oracle present less information than in versions prior to 7.1
DB Support: SQL Server
Opening the Groups node with SQL Server 2008 or newer gives an error
DB Support: Sybase ASE
The DDL shown or exported for a large view declaration may have text segments out of order
Procedure is shown twice in the Object Type list in the Object Filter section
DDL Generator
Precision and scale are not included in DDL type declaration for decimal data types when using the Generic profile
The DROP INDEX syntax is incorrect for some databases
Export
DROP statements should not be generated for indexes, since they are dropped when the table is dropped
When exporting a table with BIT data, the BIT values are quoted in the INSERT statement
See the discussion here
The exportsettings.xml/exportschemasettings.xml files may be empty resulting in an XML error when exporting
See the discussion here
Installation
The 64-bit Windows installer may download a 32-bit Java VM which will result in errors
See the discussion here
Key Bindings
Control+S may switch to Database Search if using the key binding to save an already saved SQL editor
References
Showing table references for a specific table results in an error if doing a Reload
SQL Commander
Preprocessing of a script larger than 5 MB fails
Whitespace should be ignored after the block end delimiter
The Elapsed Time counter is not running when parsing and executing large scripts without preprocessing
Workspace
Default file encoding is not considered when opening a SQL file in the OS environment (with for ex. Windows Explorer or OS X Finder)

7.1.3 - Released 2010-09-10

Improvements
DB Support: DB2 LUW
Add support for dropping columns in Alter Table for database version 9 or later
See the discussion here
References
Reload in References graph should reload from the database rather than just layout the cached tables in the graph
See the discussion here
Bugs Fixed
DB Support: Sybase ASE
Calling sp_procxmode to preserve the mode in versions prior to 15 cause various problems, so do not try to preserve the mode in older versions
Import
NullPointerException may occur if selecting "Map by Column Name" or "Map File Data Type = Table Data Type"
References
Press "All Tables" or "Specified Tables" in the References graph after doing reload in the objects tree results in an error
SQL Commander
Copy in the SQL Commander log should only copy the selected text rather than all of the log

7.1.2 - Released 2010-08-18

Improvements
DB Support: Oracle
Improve the support for Program, Replication, ASM, AWR, Scheduler, Resource Groups, DataGuard and Streams object types
Procedure Editor
Show the same error message for a lost connection when selecting a procedure as is shown when selecting a table
Tool Properties
The Permission confirmation window should show number of SQLs that are affected for each permission level
Bugs Fixed
Connection Setup
Connection variables may be lost if DbVisualizer is abruptly exited
DB Support: DB2 LUW
The "Empty Table" action to truncate a table don't work if not using DB2 9.7 and later
See the discussion here
DB Support: MySQL
Data type names are converted to uppercase in DDL, including the parameters for ENUM and SET types
See the discussion here
DB Support: PostgreSQL
The COMMENT statements in the DDL for a PostgreSQL table may reference incorrect columns if a column has been dropped
See the discussion here
DDL Generator
Incorrect table reference in FK constraint when the referenced table is in another catalog/schema than the referencing table
Explain Plan
Oracle/DB2 LUW: Changing schema with the Schema drop down and then run Execute Explain will not set the new schema in the database
See the discussion here
Export
DROP statements are not generated for code objects (procedures, functions, etc.) for some databases when Create DROP Statements is enabled
Using multiple "@export set" commands in a script resets the Filename
See the discussion here
General
The "You need to re-connect..." error window may appear while exiting DbVisualizer
See the discussion here
Navigator
Incorrect grid data shown when sorting the source table before navigating to the target table
See the discussion here
SQL Commander
When using Anonymous SQL Blocks in a script executed with the @run command, the end delimiter is included in the statement
Clicking Stop may result in a stack trace in the Debug window
Client-side command syntax errors displayed as generic exceptions with stack trace in log
SQL Editor
Must be possible to turn of the "save changes" confirmation when jumping in the history
See the discussion here

7.1.1 - Released 2010-06-23

Bugs Fixed
Check for Update
Check for Update shows that Free Upgrade is available when it is really not a free upgrade
Data tab
An error may appear when viewing the Data tab containing BLOB/Binary data
OS Support: Windows
Error starting second instance of DbVisualizer on Windows, "Cannot run program "dbvis-multi.exe": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified"
See the discussion here

7.1 - Released 2010-06-16

New Features
DB Support: Informix
Verify DbVisualizer with Informix 11.5
DB Support: MySQL
Add Create and Drop User actions
See the discussion here
DB Support: Oracle
Add Create and Drop Role actions
DB Support: Sybase ASE
Add Create Function action
Add Drop and Script CALL to Editor actions for Function objects
Add support for User Defined Functions
Driver Manager
The Driver Finder should always run when launching a new DbVisualizer version
See the discussion here
When upgrading DbVisualizer version then automatically upgrade all bundled JDBC drivers
Grid Component
Add "Find Column" feature which will automatically scroll horizontally to next column that match by name
See the discussion here
Add "Reload with Column Sorting as Sorting Filter" right click menu command in the Data tab
Add a viewer for PDF documents
Add option to treat number values in text data types as numbers in the "Aggregation Data for Selection" feature
See the discussion here
Allow custom colors for quick filter match, nulls, notifications and editing in the grid component
See the discussion here
SQL Commander
New client side command: @run <script> <var1> <var2>
Add a File->Revert to Saved command to revert all changes made to a SQL file
See the discussion here
Add audio notification capability in the SQL Commander
See the discussion here
Workspace
When opening an SQL file in for Windows Explorer or the Finder in OS X it should load the file in the currently running DbVisualizer instance rather than opening a new
See the discussion here
Improvements
Connection Setup
Select new database connection in the objects tree when created with the Connection Wizard
Create/Alter Table
Add support for IDENTITY columns options (ALWAYS/BY DEFAULT, START WITH and INCREMENT BY)
Add support for the ENUM and SET data types in the Create/Alter Table dialogs
Allow auto completion in the Data Type column
Data tab
"Script: DELETE WHERE" should accept a multi row selection
Make it possible to set number of max table data filters
The "Filter & Sort" right click menu should have an option to also consider current column sorting in the generated filter
Database Profile: View
Make the Row Count tab "stoppable"
See the discussion here
DB Support: DB2 LUW
Add support for START WITH and INCREMENT BY for IDENTITY columns in DDL
Add "Indexes" child node for Materialized Query Tables
See the discussion here
DB Support: JavaDB/Derby
Add support for IDENTITY columns in DDL
DB Support: MySQL
Add support for the "FULLTEXT" option in Create/Alter Table and Create Index dialogs
DB Support: Oracle
Change the process for updating a CLOB/BLOB column via the data grid for 10g and later to stop UPDATE triggers from firing twice
See the discussion here
Show execute permissions for stored procedures
DB Support: PostgreSQL
Enable changing column data type in the Alter Table dialog for PostgreSQL 8
DB Support: SQL Server
Add support for seed and increment parameters for IDENTITY columns in DDL
DB Support: Sybase ASE
Add sp_procxmode call for procedure export DDL and maintain transaction mode in Procedure Editor
Show table indexes in the objects tree for each database
See the discussion here
Driver Manager
An invalid driver definition (JAR file not found) should not have the same visible state as a driver that has not yet been configured
Drivers marked as invalid due to non existing driver jar files should be cleared when loading new jar files in the connection wizard
Export
It should be possible to specify whether to qualify object names and use delimiters for Export
Favorites
Favorite Editor: Add ALT+Double Click key binding for opening database object favorite in new window
Grid Component
Add "Reset Sorting" command in the right click column header menu
Copy/paste of binary data should be supported
Preserve selection when sorting grid
Preserve sorting in grid when quick filter is activated
Should be possible to configure whether the Max Rows warning should appear automatically or not
Procedure Editor
Keep cursor position when clicking Save
See the discussion here
SQL Commander
Add "Create New SQL Editor" button in the main toolbar
Add new "Default Display Mode" setting used to determine default display for result sets in the SQL Commander (one of Grid, Text, Chart)
File->Open should default to "Open in New Editor" rather in the current editor
See the discussion here
If numbers are set to include thousand separators (,) in Tool Properties then these are also part of the generated SCRIPT: xxx SQLs
Preserve scroll position in the SQL Preview while editing values
SQL History
Add setting to control whether failed SQLs should be saved in the SQL history
Don't save duplicate entries in the SQL history for statements being executed in sequence
See the discussion here
Tool Properties
Export User Settings: Add option to convert all paths to be relative rather than absolute
See the discussion here
Bugs Fixed
Database Objects Tree
Long object filter pattern requires resizing of Objects Tree pane to access buttons for adding and removing filters
See the discussion here
General
An error may occur in various places when a SELECT with a sub query is used, such as when exporting the result of the query
Opening a web browser from DbVisualizer may result in an error
SQL Commander
Unexpected JDBC driver errors may freeze DbVisualizer while executing in SQL Commander
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