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you for using IDERA ER/Studio Data Architect, previously known as ER/Studio,
the award-winning data modeling application for logical, and physical database
design and construction. ER/Studio Data Architect's (ER/Studio DA) powerful,
multi-level design environment addresses the everyday needs of database
administrators, developers, and data architects who build and maintain large,
complex database applications.
ER/Studio DA's progressive interface and processes have been
logically organized to effectively address the ease-of-use issues that
have plagued data modeling tools for the past decade. The application
facilitates your ability to create, understand, and manage the mission-critical
database designs within an enterprise. It offers strong logical design
capabilities, bidirectional synchronization of logical and physical designs,
automatic database construction, accurate reverse engineering of databases, and
powerful HTML-based documentation and reporting facilities. Before you use
ER/Studio, please read the information below.
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WHAT'S NEW in version 20.2
Introduces support for Databricks database
platform
Introduces support for Microsoft Purview data
governance tool
Release Notes
Upgrade Instructions
Upgrading from
ER/Studio Portal to Team Server
Upgrades for ER/Studio Repository
Users
Upgrades for version
of ER/Studio Repository prior to 2016
Additional Resources
What's New in Version 20.2
Introduces support for Databricks database platform
ER/Studio Data Architect 20.2 includes a number of updates to
support the Databricks database platform as a core platform, including basic
constructs plus enhanced workflow capabilities. This functionality requires the
installation of the Databricks ODBC driver, which allows reverse engineering
operations to the Unity Data Catalog. Note that this implementation is based on
the UDC version of Databricks and thus supports advanced features such as
primary/foreign key constraints.
Databricks constructs for this release include:
·
Tables
·
Views
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Data Types
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Columns
·
Keys (Primary and Foreign)
·
Indexes (Bloom filter)
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Relationships
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Defaults
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Materialized Views
·
Functions
·
Schemas
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Check Constraints
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Table Partitions
·
Liquid Clustering
Enhanced workflow capabilities include:
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Reverse engineering from database and from SQL script
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Forward engineering with DDL scripts and direct database
connection
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Compare and merge with ALTER script generation
Introduces support for Microsoft Purview data governance tool
ER/Studio Team Server introduces support for Microsoft Purview
data governance tool. This support includes:
·
Synchronization of Business Terms
·
Publication of Logical data models with mappings to Terms
·
Documentation of scanned assets from Physical data models with
mappings to Terms and to Logical data
models
To ensure compatibility
with ER/Studio Repository synchronization, this version of ER/Studio Data Architect
requires ER/Studio Repository (Team Server) version 19.1 or later for all
Repository operations.
ER/Studio Portal is no longer supported by ER/Studio Data
Architect. Most functionality formerly provided by ER/Studio Portal is now
provided by ER/Studio Team Server. Users that formerly used the Repository
tab to browse the portal can use a Web browser instead.
License Enforcement
When working with the Repository, all users must use the same
license type. ER/Studio now enforces this by marking the Repository as an
Enterprise Team Edition Repository when a user with an Enterprise Team Edition
license logs in. Subsequent log in attempts by users with a non-Team Edition
license will not be allowed
For the more recent
list of known issues and bug fixes in this release, see http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/ERStudioDA/202/en/Release_Notes.
Upgrade Instructions
Upgrading from
ER/Studio Portal to ER/Studio Team Server
For detailed instructions on upgrading to Team Server, see Install
or Upgrade Team Server and Repository.
Upgrades for ER/Studio Repository users
To use the repository with this release, you will need to be
running ER/Studio Repository (Team Server) 19.0 or later.
Upgrades for
version of ER/Studio Repository prior to 2016
Repository
is now installed as part of Team Server. To upgrade an earlier version of
Repository, please see About
Team Server and Repository Upgrade.
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