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What's New in Version 7.7.1/XE
What's New in Rapid SQL XE and Rapid SQL 7.7
Updated support for Microsoft SQL Server features
Updated support for IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows features
Updated support for IBM DB2 for z/OS features
Updated support for Oracle features
Updated support for Sybase features
Release Notes
DBMS Versions No Longer Supported
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What's New in Version 7.7.1/XE
Offline License Borrowing
Rapid SQL now allows you to consume a license in offline mode. When you explicitly check out a license (Help > Checkout License) for offline use, you can use Rapid SQL without a connection to your License Center for a specified duration. This lets you work while travelling or commuting, work away from your primary work area, or use Rapid SQL when a network connection is unavailable or not required. You can also check a borrowed license back in (Help > Checkin License) before the duration expires.
Performance Improvements
In response to customer feedback, performance improvements have been made in the areas of connection pooling and ISQL editor functionality. This work includes the following user interface changes:
What's New in Rapid SQL XE and Rapid SQL 7.7
InterBase support
This release introduces support for InterBase® SMP, an Embarcadero offering. InterBase is a high-performance, full-featured database offering in a resilient, lightweight, low-cost package. Preliminary support includes:
Datasource management
This release introduces a number of techniques for filtering the Datasource Explorer view. On-the-fly filtering lets you filter tree nodes as you work. Object filters, defined and enabled at either the DBMS or datasource level, let you filter display by object name/schema. Node filtering lets you hide or display object types by DBMS platform.
Also new to this release is the means to visually distinguish between datasources used for different purposes in your organization. You can assign a category, such as development or production, when creating or editing a datasource. When you assign a category to a datasource, the Datasource Explorer icons for the datasource show a distinctive color-coded category indicator. You can use the Options editor to customize your categorization scheme to include:
Rapid SQL now lets you select one of three methods of datasource catalog storage:
For installations using the Windows Registry or File based method, the user can add and delete datasources and edit the registration details of existing resources. Any changes are retained across startups of Rapid SQL. As well, each of these methods is compatible with other Embarcadero products using that method, allowing Rapid SQL users to share the datasource catalog with other products using the same method.
The Datasource panel of the Options editor lets you choose a storage method and specify the network location of a Network shared Datasource catalog definition file. In addition, the Import/Export functionality available from the Manage Datasources facility has been enhanced specifically to account for the new storage methods.
Unicode support
Rapid SQL now includes Unicode support throughout the application, allowing you to work with data in different languages and display the text correctly on screen.
ISQL editor updates
The ISQL Editor has been enhanced with a set of automated validation and code assistance features:
In addition, specified query options that customize the execution environment can now be saved and subsequently loaded. The frequency with which the options are sent to the server has been optimized.
Updated support for Microsoft SQL Server features
Index support in Rapid SQL has been upgraded to account for newer Microsoft SQL Server index functionality. You can now rebuild, reorganize, and disable indexes, primary keys, and unique keys. When creating, dropping or rebuilding indexes, primary keys, or unique keys, online options are available with these operations. This release also offers sparse columns, MAXDOP support, and page and row locking.
Updated support for IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows features
This Rapid SQL release supports the following recent upgrades to IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows functionality:
Updated support for IBM DB2 for z/OS features
This release features the following feature upgrades or improvements:
Updated support for Oracle features
When creating or modifying tablespace datafiles, you can now set the availability of the datafile to either ONLINE or OFFLINE.
Updated support for Sybase features
A Server shutdown Wait Time option lets you enable a grace period, an upper limit on how long to wait for normal operations to complete before forcing a shutdown.
User interface improvements
This release continues the reworking of object editors and wizards. Aimed at improving workflow and the user interface experience, the new editors and wizards are being reworked for consistency. The following object editors/wizards were upgraded for this release:
Release Notes
DBMS SUPPORT
NOTE: Since Rapid SQL is a 32-bit application that runs emulated on 64-bit versions of Windows, only 32-bit versions of the DBMS client software are supported.
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, Rapid SQL only supports connecting to a v8 Database on Windows, Linux and Unix.
InterBase/FirebirdServer: InterBase 2007 and InterBase 2009, Firebird 2.0
Client: DataDirect ODBC driver for InterBase and the InterBase Client
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 version.
IMPORTANT ADVISORY NOTES
When working against versions prior to the Interbase 2009 Update 3 release, Rapid SQL may crash due to Interbase client/Data Direct ODBC Driver problems accessing the interbase.msg file. If you experience this type of crash, ensure that:
KNOWN ISSUES
BUG FIXES
Bugs Fixed in Embarcadero Rapid SQL XE and Rapid SQL 7.7.1 | ||
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Issue # | Description | DBMS |
RAP-4992 | SQL Files aren't automatically reloading when launching Rapid SQL | All |
RAP-5545 | [SQL Editor]CTRL + T fails to cycle back to Query tab after cycling through Result tabs | All |
RAP-5587 | [Application] Files previously used do not appear in recent file list. | All |
RAP-5595 | [Workspaces] Changing between workspaces should keep focus on last editor accessed in each workspace | All |
RAP-5601 | [Project] File > Close project closes the most right tab, instead of closing the actual project tab | All |
RAP-4921 | Compile error message when a Stored Procedure is used to call another stored procedure | DB2 |
RAP-5565 | Crash after connecting to Interbase and opening a New ISQL Window | InterBase |
RAP-5546 | [Generate Anonymous Block] function does nothing when using this on a Procedures associated with a Package | Oracle |
RAP-5558 | Connection is locked in an ISQL session | Oracle |
RAP-5564 | Compiling a procedure or package, when using the compile action dialog, returns an error of ORA-24344: success with compilation error | Oracle |
RAP-5576 | Scripts with goto section for creating stored procedures cannot be run | SQL Server |
RAP-5611 | [SQL Editor] Application crashes when clicking on period button | SQL Server |
RAP-5613 | [Explorer][Views] Wrong maximum length of varchar/nvarchar columns | SQL Server |
RAP-4585 | With text in the Editor, traversal between full screen mode and normal causes editor icon corruption | Sybase |
RAP-5460 | Users with a Sybase 15 client, who implement password encryption, can't connect to the Sybase 15 datasource without error: "Adaptive Server requires encryption of the login password...". | Sybase |
RAP-5560 | [SQL Editor] The SQL Editor parser for the statements with special characters like # do not handle tabs correctly | Sybase |
RAP-5571 | [Connectivity] When automatically connecting to Sybase datasources after Rapid SQL restarts, a "Cannot load Open Client" error pops up | Sybase |
RAP-5573 | [Data Source Explorer] Object browser shows the list of objects from the previously viewed database | Sybase |
RAP-5579 | [Code Assist] - When using auto completion, RSQL7.7 crashes | Sybase |
RAP-5609 | Random crashes on Rapid Sql | Sybase |
Bugs Fixed in Embarcadero Rapid SQL XE and Rapid SQL 7.7 | ||
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Issue # | Description | DBMS |
RAP-4583 | Installation space issue during changing Drive from C to D | All |
RAP-5212 | Rapid crashes when you choose Basic Macro Editor from the Tools menu | All |
RAP-5377 | SQL scripts open while exiting application are not automatically re-opened upon application launch. The File>Options>Explorer>'Retain View Setting on Close' no longer works correctly. | All |
RAP-5396 | Application no longer opening up previously opened SQL file on restart | All |
RAP-5438 | After user modify the script, "Save All" button doesn't save script when user click on it at the result window | All |
RAP-5522 | An empty file.log is created when you right click on a .sql file and choose to open it with Rapid SQL or DBArtisan | All |
RAP-5070 | After upgrade from RS741 to RS755, DB2 table extract shows correct indexes when extracted under the table owner but incorrect when extracted under the owner who created the table index. | DB2 |
RAP-3878 | Rapid SQL is not correctly parsing the SQL statements upon alteration of DB2 z/OS Stored Procedures in compat mode | DB2 z/OS |
RAP-4584 | An error occurred when connecting with JDBC | MySQL |
RAP-3384 | An error message is displayed on trying to generate the Package script from Generate >Package context menu option on an Oracle 9i and 10g datasource | Oracle |
RAP-4314 | Rapid SQL doesn't return the correct number of rows with specific query | Oracle |
RAP-4476 | Row count is off by one in the query window | Oracle |
RAP-5278 | Rapid SQL doesn't show index names in Query Plan | Oracle |
RAP-5292 | In debugger, if debug stored procedure A, which calls stored procedure B, all users stored procedures go invalid. | Oracle |
RAP-5379 | Query that runs fine in SQL plus and RS740 fails with latest release. | Oracle |
RAP-5400 | After comment "--" , more than one line font become green | Oracle |
RAP-5338 | After upgrade from Rapid 7.5.5 to 7.6.0, user got Unknown Database Error when user clicked on Database icon after connecting to a MS SQL Server 2000 datasource regardless of whether the default database is Master or not | SQL Server |
RAP-5468 | In the explorer under columns node, the size for the nvarchar datatypes is doubled | SQL Server |
RAP-5472 | Replace window can't be accessed in the Create Trigger wizard on the MSSQL servers | SQL Server |
RAP-5131 | Extract includes Revoke statements for objects that have permissions granted | Sybase |
RAP-5436 | Auto Lookup is case - sensitive on a non case-sensitive Sybase server | Sybase |
RAP-5448 | Row numbers should not be included when copy result set to Excel | Sybase |
RAP-5492 | Extracting DDL for multiple tables inappropriately goups the table definitions preceding the index definitions. The index definition should follow it's respective table's definition. | Sybase |
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