MS SQL Maestro 15.7 released
Jul 27, 2015
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of MS SQL Maestro 15.7, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Microsoft SQL Server administration and database development. Please consider the list of new features implemented in this version since the last official release: |
Server management extensions:
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Support for Azure SQL Database has been implemented (both V11 and V12 are supported). From now on you can use all the power of MS SQL Maestro to manage
your cloud-based databases as efficiently as possible!
Here are some tips that could help you to increase the software performance when working with Azure databases and remote SQL Servers (especially on slow Internet connections).
- Disable all objects you don't use in the Program Options dialog (Main menu | Tools | Options | Application | Explorer).
- Turn off the "Refresh whole database on connect" option in the Edit Database Profile window.
- To maximize the performance, you can also uncheck the "Keep connection alive" option at the same place (cannot be recommended for unstable connections).
- This version has been successfully tested with SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.2 (the latest SQL Server 2016 version available at the moment). Hope it will work fine with the official release too.
- Algorithm of extracting dependencies for user-defined types has been improved. Now all the tables and views that have a column based on such a data type and all the procedures/functions that have a parameter based on the data type are displayed at the Dependencies tab of the object editor.
- Program name and Status columns have been added to the Process Browser window.
Interface improvements:
- In Data Grids and Data Input Forms computed columns are marked by a green calculator.
- From now on it becomes possible to execute custom SQL scripts in all database connections established by the software.
- Support for a number of new encryption algorithms has been added to Data Grid. Now it is possible to encrypt the value of a text column, for example, by SHA512 or Haval224 algorithm with a couple of mouse clicks.
- Support for Adobe Reader DC has been added to BLOB Editor. Also the editor window now saves its size and position between times it is opened (for each table).
- Starting from this version it is possible to select a tab color for windows that belong to a certain database. This could help you to distinguish windows with the same caption but a different parent database (such as SQL Editor) with ease. The color can be specified at the Options tab in the Database Profile Properties dialog. For the same purpose tab hints now include the profile name.
- Data Export: from now on it becomes possible to specify caption, width, and alignment for output columns (when applicable). Also it becomes possible to add current timestamp to the output file name.
- Data Import: starting from this version it is possible to import empty values as empty strings (while previous versions always imported such values as NULLs).
- Data Input Form: controls containing values of primary and foreign key columns are now marked with the 'gold key' and 'silver key' images accordingly. Controls containing values of required (NOT NULL) columns are marked with a red asterisk.
In addition to this, several bugs have been fixed and some other minor improvements and corrections have been made.
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