Archive for December, 2005

dbdesc 1.3 released!

December 19th, 2005

Today I’ve released version 1.3 of dbdesc. These are the main changes since version 1.2: New features Discover SQL Server instances on your network New button to retrieve the database list from a SQL Server instance New option tab to choose which database objects must be documented Extended indexes info. Index name and sort direction. [...]

Maintenance release uploaded

December 7th, 2005

I’ve uploaded a maintenance release of dbdesc to fix a couple of bugs: – SQL Server: Columns of type sysname are not documented – SQL Server 2000: Triggers are not shown in XSL templates I’ve detected some minor bugs more since version 1.2, but they can wait until the next point release, which will be [...]

Future features and users’ feedback

December 5th, 2005

I have a pretty big list of features planned for dbdesc. One way I use to look at them is grouped like this: – Features from users’ feedback. – Features to catch up with competitors products – Features ‘needed’ to implement future ones – Features which probably will produce a major version. – Features which [...]