DB2 Maestro 8.12 released

Dec 15, 2008

SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of DB2 Maestro 8.12, a powerful Windows GUI solution for DB2 administration and database development. Please consider the list of new features implemented in this version since the last official release:

• All the bugs reported by our users and found by ourselves since first official release have been successfully fixed. Hope we didn't add a lot of new ones. :-)
  
  
• Get SQL Dump Wizard now can generate multi-row INSERT statements. Also the wizard has been redesigned to increase the usability.
  
  

• Visual Query Builder has been dramatically improved. Now it can produce INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements as well as the SELECT statements containing subqueries and/or UNIONs.
  
  
• Tabbed MDI interface: a popup menu has been added to each tab.
  
  

  

• Data grid features the following things:
  
  
  • Starting with this version it is possible to use the lookup editor for a column, which is linked by a foreign key with a (single) column from another table. The editor displays the contents of parent table’s columns within the dropdown window.
    
    
  • A possibility of displaying data in the master-detail form has been incorporated into the Table Editor (multiple detail pages can be displayed for a single master row). Use the Show/Hide details link at the editor’s navigation bar to activate/deactivate this view mode.
    
    
  • Filtering, grouping, and sorting features become available for CLOB columns. Also it is possible to edit the contents of such columns in a separate window as well as encrypt it using the md5 algorithm.
    
    
  • The notification pane is now displayed after simple mode activation (filtering, grouping and sorting features are not supported in this mode). All the related settings can be customized in the Options dialog.
    
    
  • It is now possible to restrict maximum column width.
    
    
• The Dependency tracker tool has been implemented (Main Menu | Tools | Dependency tracker). Use this tool to browse all-level dependencies of a schema object (table, view, function, etc).
  
  
• SQL Script Editor: Script Explorer has been implemented.
  
  
• A French localization is now included into the installation package.
  
  
• This version of our software is fully compatible with large fonts (120 DPI).
  
  
• SQL Editor: a popup menu has been added to each query tab. Using this menu you can create a new query, close existing one, save the query to profile, etc even if editor's navigation bar is closed.
  
  

  

• SQL Script Editor settings: the "Use script runner for large scripts" option has been added.
  
  
• All schema object (table, view, procedure, etc) editors: the tab captions are now displayed as object@schema instead of schema.object. This should increase the usability while working with a lot of objects in the same schema.
  
  

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• Database Explorer: the Data management group has been added to table and view nodes popup menus. Use this group items to run Data Export, Data Import, and Get SQL Dump wizards for the selected table or view without opening its editor (the Empty Table command has been moved to this group too). The Go to foreign table command is now available for all the foreign keys.
  
  
• The F11 key is now used to show/hide the Explorer tree.
  
  
• Database Designer settings: the "Show hints" options has been added. Also it is now possible to select the default graphic file format to export diagrams as images.
  
  

In addition to this, several bugs have been fixed and some other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

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