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What's New in Version 8.6
Oracle Graphical Query Plan support
Release Notes
DBMS Versions No Longer Supported
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What's New in Version 8.6
Expanded Unicode/XML Support
Support for XML has been expanded for release 8.6. XML parameters can now be passed to stored procedures and DBMS-specific upgrades include:
Similarly, support for Unicode has been expanded for release 8.6. Previously only supported in the Text editor, now the Results grid and Data editor support Unicode characters. Datatypes that can be displayed or entered differ according to the DBMS platform.
SQL Pre-processor
DBArtisan provides SQL preprocessing similar to C language compiler directives. The ISQL Editor now supports a simplified version of the #define and #include directives.
Expanded DBMS support
DBArtisan now provides support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Sybase 15.0.2. This DBArtisan release also introduces support for Sybase Cluster Edition.
Oracle Graphical Query Plan support
Graphical Query Plan support, previously provided for other DBMS is now available for Oracle. With the ISQL editor in Show Plan, executing a script now displays a graphical representation of the query plan for the script. You can drill down to view details on individual steps, toggle between graphical and tree-based views, and make use of a number of viewing options.
User Interface improvements
For 8.6, Embarcadero continues to revamp the Object Editors and Wizards. The .NET look and feel is geared to improving consistency, presentation, and expanded feature support. The 8.6 release also offers greater control over toolbar display and a revamped Options editor that speeds up navigation.
Additional Currency Features
As with other releases of DBArtisan, Embarcadero has responded to customer requests for additional or improved feature support. General improvements include extraction and migration enhancements, Vista support upgrades, virtualized Text editor content, and 64-bit Backup Analyst support. DBMS-specific upgrades include the following:
Release Notes
DBMS SUPPORT
IBM DB2 UDB for OS/390 (z/OS)
Server: IBM DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS v7, v8, and v9
Client: When going through a DB2 Connect gateway, DB2 UDB Client for Windows 6.0 or later. When going directly to the mainframe from the client, DB2 Connect Personal Edition v6 or higher on the client machine.
IBM DB2 UDB for LUWServer: IBM DB2 LUW Versions 8.x and 9.x
Client: IBM DB2 LUW Client for Windows 7.0 or later. When using a v8 client, DBArtisan only supports connecting to a v8 Database on Windows, Linux and Unix.
Microsoft SQL ServerServer: Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, (All editions including 2000 SDE and 2005 Express Edition for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit Itanium & x86-64) and 2008.
Client: Microsoft SQL Server Client Library
MySQLServer: 4.x
Client: MySQL ODBC driver 3.5.1 - 4.x.
OracleServer: Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, and 11g.
Client: Oracle SQL*Net Client
Sybase ASEServer: Sybase System 12.5, Sybase 15.x
Client: Sybase Open Client
DBMS VERSIONS NO LONGER SUPPORTED
All DBMS versions supported in the previous release are supported for this release.
IMPORTANT ADVISORY NOTES
Default delimiter used by the Data Load/Unload Wizards � When using the Data Unload wizard, do not specify a column delimiter character that appears as data in the database being unloaded. For example, if using the default character delimiter for the wizard (a comma), when choosing data unload settings in the wizard, specify a non-comma delimiter. Similarly, when loading the results of an unload operation, be sure to specify the same column delimiter specified during the unload operation.
Specifying the location for license backups � the cglm.ini file, located in the main DBArtisan installation directory, has a LicenseDir property that specifies the directory in which DBArtisan is to store backup license files. The default value (.\license) must be updated to specify an absolute path. Modify the LicenseDir value according to the operating system to which DBArtisan is being installed:
KNOWN ISSUES
BUG FIXES
| Bugs Fixed in DBArtisan 8.6.1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| DBA-16235 | When there is /**/ inside the content that need to be commented in ISQL window, error occurs. | All |
| DBA-16553 | Extract is not correct when performed for multiple databases; "USE master" clause is missing | All |
| DBA-13714 | Unable to "EXTRACT" object type Database Link due to error - Error during object population. Type = DATABASELINK | Oracle |
| DBA-15561 | DBA8.5.5 Application crash when trying to open an object after the server was stopped | Oracle |
| DBA-15752 | DBA 8.6.0 #3805 - When Creating an Oracle Database Link an error appears "insufficient privileges" | Oracle |
| DBA-15839 | DB Buffer size is not showing up correctly after connecting to a datasource | Oracle |
| DBA-16173 | DDL Tab is not showing the correct DDL for a BIGFILE TABLESPACE | Oracle |
| DBA-16185 | When logging into datasource and prompted with Password Expired, user provides new password but sees error ORA-01017 after login | Oracle |
| DBA-16217 | When extracting an external table, the customer believes that LOGGING, NOCACHE, NOPARALLEL should not be included in the extract | Oracle |
| DBA-16258 | Tablespace datafile display page does not show the MB size correctly, seems to be truncated - DDL extract appears to show the correct number | Oracle |
| DBA-14096 | Failed to create connection. Url or driver class may be incorrect. Network error IOException. Connection refused:connect. | SQL Server |
| DBA-14831 | Crashes after running a query, then leaving it idle | SQL Server |
| DBA-15805 | MS SQL Error Log date format is inconsistent in SQL Server 2000 v.s. SQL Server 2005 | SQL Server |
| DBA-16129 | When changing the status of a foreign key from Enabled to Disabled and back to Enabled, the object acquires an attribute of WITH NOCHECK. | SQL Server |
| DBA-16167 | Error Logs can't be displayed for for SQL Server 2005 | SQL Server |
| DBA-16966 | Extraction Wizard Issue with performing the extraction selecting all database objects - something with SYSDIAGRAMS in the error log | SQL Server |
| DBA-8926 | 2nd schema extract from a Sybase datasource results in error The ObjectRoot is in an inconsistent state (Columns has not been set)... | Sybase |
| DBA-13555 | Editor Outlining is not picking COMMIT or ROLLBACK for queries beginning with BEGIN TRAN | Sybase |
| DBA-14385 | [8.5.1] - DB Monitor not displaying information for selected server | Sybase |
| DBA-15922 | Ability to create a clustered index that allows duplicate rows (Sybase ASE) lost after upgrading to DB855 | Sybase |
| DBA-16442 | [8.6.0B1 #3830] - Bound value is too long for the buffer | Sybase |
| DBA-16620 | Tabbing through parameters of an executed procedure simply recycles through the current row without progressing to the next. | Sybase |
| DBA-16758 | SQL Extract' no longer extracts primary key constraint for views in Sybase | Sybase |
| RAP-5247 | When browsing roles, an user that inherits a DBA privilege through a role is warned that he needs DBA privileges | Oracle |
| Bugs Fixed in DBArtisan 8.6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| DBA-3673 | [8.5.2] - Summary Report cannot be sent as MAIL | All |
| DBA-9593 | User is unable to launch Performance Analyst on IE Browser | All |
| DBA-12280 | The changes made in the Query Builder are not getting saved though the same has been saved by the user | All |
| DBA-13688 | Crash submitted via Problem Report | All |
| DBA-13739 | Crash submitted via Problem Report - RSQL-7.5.0.3363 | All |
| DBA-13796 | Problem Report crash starting RapidSQL | All |
| DBA-13816 | [8.5.0#3605] - Procedure execution : impossible to use default parameter | All |
| DBA-14520 | Can't assign F5 to execute sql | All |
| DBA-14716 | Copying text from MS Word is not formatting Quotes correctly | All |
| DBA-15053 | Crash when initializing Logging in DBArtisan Startup | All |
| DBA-15136 | Duplicate Join Created in the WHERE clause when using ANSI Joins | All |
| DBA-15521 | Find/Replace arguments not saved when application is shutdown | All |
| DBA-15818 | After upgrade to 854, find & Replace doesn't find everything and Replace ALL locks up the session and the user is forced into killing. | All |
| DBA-15877 | Replace All can run forever (infinite loop) | All |
| DBA-16079 | Unable to Edit Row using Edit Data Menu | All |
| DBA-16082 | When extracting the DDL for a View, DDL is truncated both via Ad Hoc extraction and Schema Extraction Wizard | All |
| DBA-16156 | Silent installer leaving old version installed | All |
| DBA-16334 | Find is not working for accentuated or foreign characters | All |
| DBA-6850 | Program Unable to perform lexical cast error in output window when clicking on space and home button in Performance Analyst | DB2 |
| DBA-14083 | After upgrading to DB850 the new monitor for db2 luw doesn't have any timing information | DB2 |
| DBA-14708 | For DB2 v9 and unique indexes, NOT PARTITIONED IN is not showing up in the DDL extract | DB2 |
| DBA-14784 | Cannot change datatype for column due to constraints not being dropped in the right order in the ALTER script | DB2 |
| DBA-15353 | Some Japanese Characters not appearing correctly in the menu's | DB2 |
| DBA-15554 | Cannot see information for Views in DB2 9.5 database | DB2 |
| DBA-15747 | Incorrect value displayed for " Do not initially log " Table property | DB2 |
| DBA-15866 | Tablespace Extract is only showing GRANT statement(s) fails to show anything else like Create or Container statements - DDL and Container Tab show information fine | DB2 |
| DBA-15868 | Altering a table with a rename of a column (which happens to be the partitioning key) fails to update in the ALTER preview script | DB2 |
| DBA-15920 | After altering a column's type, the resulting alterscript doesn't include the changed column in an sql statement to move the data. This worked in DB813 | DB2 |
| DBA-16039 | Database Monitor processes are not colored correctly | DB2 |
| DBA-16300 | User can run PA (for DB2) from DBArtisan application but is unable to run the HTML version of PA since upgrading to DB855 (from DB810) | DB2 |
| DBA15799 | Tablespaces are not being extracted - Error during object population = Tablespace | DB2 Z/OS |
| DBA-12177 | When running a query that ran in DBArtisan 8.1 customer gets an error, Access denied - SUPER privilege | MySQL |
| DBA-12560 | The 'Format SQL' button is missing (even from the right-click menu) after coded edit and recompile | Oracle |
| DBA-13031 | [8.5.1] - Received the following error for any user 'roles' tab - failed to populate for object type ROLE | Oracle |
| DBA-13570 | When extracting a database link it does not show the "identified by" | Oracle |
| DBA-13762 | Oracle explorer table view is experiencing slow performance in generating object list and details | Oracle |
| DBA-14015 | After extracting the DDL for a role the users assigned the role are no longer included | Oracle |
| DBA-14113 | Generated syntax isn't completely correct when extracting a partitioned table | Oracle |
| DBA-14371 | [8.5.2 # 3679] - Unable to extract objects for a user against multiple databases | Oracle |
| DBA-15031 | Tool bar is disabled when open a procedure and highlight the code | Oracle |
| DBA-15034 | After upgrading from DB815 to DB853 ISQL editor doesn't show the correct colors in certain scenarios | Oracle |
| DBA-15183 | [8.5.3] - Contents of wrong database are shown when the same login is used to connect to a prod & dev DB | Oracle |
| DBA-15250 | Database Search doesn't return results when searching database objects in the Triggers | Oracle |
| DBA-15417 | Negative numbers appear for tablespace extraction using the Embarcadero Driver | Oracle |
| DBA-15545 | Problem Report Crash: Right clicking on packages crashes DBArtisan in some situations | Oracle |
| DBA-15640 | Date/Time Format option settings still apply even though user uncheck it and create an alter session NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT with a different format | Oracle |
| DBA-15664 | Index sort order is incorrect | Oracle |
| DBA-15766 | In result window, after delete a null column, the non-null column to the right of the null column becomes null | Oracle |
| DBA-15812 | Invalid Query run against an Oracle 8.1.6 server column name CLUSTER_OWNER is not supported | Oracle |
| DBA-15846 | Find & Replace doesn't replace the first highlighted string when user chooses Replace All | Oracle |
| DBA-15856 | Oracle: Going to security, right-click on a user and open to go to object permissions tab gives and error on latest build of DB855 | Oracle |
| DBA-15959 | After upgrading to DB855 users are unable to perform SQL extracts of materialized views under individual schema owners. They have to connect as SYSTEM to perform the extracts | Oracle |
| DBA-16257 | The 'FOR UPDATE' clause of a materialized view is not being included during SQL generation when the extract button is pressed | Oracle |
| DBA-16263 | ORA-00904: Invalid column name" when clicking on Tablespaces node in Oracle 8.0 | Oracle |
| DBA-9508 | SQL Server database tables don't sort by name when using alphanumeric characters | SQL Server |
| DBA-12704 | Unable to create/drop/view the properties of SQL Server Agent objects (Jobs, Alerts, and Operators) in Windows Vista Ultimate operating systems | SQL Server |
| DBA-14252 | Error during object population Type = Trigger | SQL Server |
| DBA-14279 | When editing a multi-file Filegroup and changing its autogrow size, some of the values revert back to zero in SQL Server 2005 | SQL Server |
| DBA-14317 | SQL creates SQL Server 2005 table incorrectly. The same SQL works in SSMgmt Studio and DB812 | SQL Server |
| DBA-14322 | Trying to view a job in the SQL Agent generates error message for SQL Server 2000 & 2005 | SQL Server |
| DBA-14656 | 8.5.2] - Unable to do a successful backup 0x80010105 | SQL Server |
| DBA-15033 | Database search results appear succesfully but the error Ljava.lang.String occurs in output log | SQL Server |
| DBA-15443 | Problem Report: DBArtisan Crashes when viewing Top SQL Cache in DB Monitor | SQL Server |
| DBA-15859 | Database Search error when searching any object- No SQL parameter found for that translator property. Cannot filter on that attribute. | SQL Server |
| DBA-15861 | DDL extracting resulting in error in SQL Server environment for particular user - Can't find resource for bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle.key DiskCacheCreateFailed | SQL Server |
| DBA-15996 | After installing DB855, backup analyst gives error Msg 65280, Level 16, State 0, Line 0 [severity=16,msgnum=-2147417851,state=0]Error Number: 0x80010105 | SQL Server |
| DBA-16485 | [8.6.0B2 #3841] - Failed to create a connection. Url or driver class may be incorrect. Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. | SQL Server |
| DBA-16618 | Triggers are failing to extract or display in Definition tab correctly, they appear to be truncated | SQL Server |
| DBA-16262 | Datatype size attributes for columns are not displayed for editing purposes | SQL Server |
| DBA-16347 | 8.6.0B1 #3830] - Extract of view - missing lines | SQL Server |
| DBA-11586 | DBA850#3518:An inappropriate database details is displayed in the 'Device Usage' and 'Segments' in the 'Databases' tab of the Sybase 15 space analyst | Sybase |
| DBA-11907 | [8.5.0 #3524]: Error when extracting the text of certain stored procedures. "Error during object population. Type = PROCEDURE" | Sybase |
| DBA-13021 | [8.5.0#3561] - Number (207) Severity (16) State (4) Server (SYBASE) Procedure (dbo.test) Invalid column name 'Ship-To' | Sybase |
| DBA-13188 | When dropping databases, DDL Preview varies in times in generating the DDL view | Sybase |
| DBA-13547 | [8.5.0#3592] - SQL Editor - Problem typing characters like �,�,� | Sybase |
| DBA-13610 | Objects do not refresh when select from a different database | Sybase |
| DBA-13622 | Trigger extract creates invalid DDL | Sybase |
| DBA-13769 | Extract a trigger, logins comes up with wrong definition | Sybase |
| DBA-13993 | Database Extract is different in the way it orders the devices in the extract | Sybase |
| DBA-14073 | Incorrect syntax generated by the Query Builder's | Sybase |
| DBA-14093 | Date time value tab is not moving user to next field in procedure execution window | Sybase |
| DBA-14160 | [8.5.0#3605] - Unable to extract or view double-byte character sets in foreign language | Sybase |
| DBA-14265 | DBA 851: The sql obtained for Sybase database extraction is different than the one obtained in 815 | Sybase |
| DBA-14356 | [8.5.1] - SQL Ordering - Primary keys created 1st causing sql to fail | Sybase |
| DBA-14386 | [8.5.1] - Ad Hoc Extraction "Error during object population. Type = TABLE." | Sybase |
| DBA-14561 | Granting roles to a login account doesn't appear in the login's extract | Sybase |
| DBA-14710 | Sybase syntax highlighting doesn't work in ISQL for characters following the # sign. Type the following line in DB815 and DB852 ISQL to see difference: Select * From #temp Where user = "A" | Sybase |
| DBA-14858 | When delete column(s) in select * result window, smalldatetime column's NULL value changes to "0/0/0000 12:00:00.000 AM" | Sybase |
| DBA-15029 | Sybase remote foreign keys are not populated/extracted correctly | Sybase |
| DBA-15262 | After upgrade to DB853, file execution utility executes sql in file but only outputs the result set column headers | Sybase |
| DBA-15510 | Sybase schema migration not successful due to ordering of tasks after upgrading to DB854 | Sybase |
| DBA-15563 | Unable to grant role to procedure when quotes exist around the rolename | Sybase |
| DBA-15586 | A long Default Value of a column in a Table is failing to extract properly, value is being truncated and appears cut off in display as well | Sybase |
| DBA-15562 | Missing quotes when creating a role with a space in the nameL | Sybase |
| DBA-15564 | Role names with Cyrillic characters not extracted properly leading to syntax issue when running DDL | Sybase |
| DBA-15678 | Java.lang.stackoverflow error during stored procedures extraction in the wizard | Sybase |
| DBA-15765 | Sort column order is incorrect | Sybase |
| DBA-15782 | Unable to load children (Number (530) Severity (16) State (1), when running Sybase on the Small Business edition (Developer). | Sybase |
| DBA-15821 | Find and Replace causes whole lines to intermittently disappear | Sybase |
| DBA-15863 | Database Search no longer works after upgrading to DB855 - No sql parameter found for that translator property. Cannot filter on that attribute | Sybase |
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