Archive for the 'dbdesc' Category
dbdesc 2.1 available
January 30th, 2007A new version of dbdesc is now available. This version improves a lot the successful extended property editor that was introduced in version 2.0. A special ‘thank you’ to all of you who have sent me feedback and suggestions, and specially to Tom Pester who has dedicated a lot of effort in helping me polish [...]
Firebird 2.0 is finally out
November 17th, 2006This week, the Firebird project has finally released version 2.0 final. Although this version comes with lots of improvements and changes, I think that dbdesc should be able to document 2.0 databases without problems. I will try to find time this very weekend to test it. Here are the release notes and download page. UPDATE: [...]
dbdesc 2.0 released!
October 6th, 2006This week I finally managed to release dbdesc 2.0. This version adds a couple of features that will make dbdesc much more useful. The first one is that you can choose exactly which objects you want to document. Until now you had the option to not document tables, views, etc. but it was an all [...]
Database tag clouds
August 28th, 2006I’m always more than happy to see how dbdesc users customize dbdesc templates for their own needs. Last week, Jasper Verweij posted a comment sharing his idea of building tag clouds using database objects. It’s indeed a very useful idea because it shows which objects are “more important” on your database. After a couple of [...]
dbdesc 1.6 & dtsdoc 1.2 available
July 5th, 2006A new version of both dbdesc (1.6) and dtsdoc (1.2) is now available. These upgrades are (as usual) free for registered customers. These are the main features added to dbdesc 1.6: Create statements for tables List of “dependent tables” which have foreign keys referring to the table View’s fields documented Triggers on views documented INSTEAD [...]
dbdesc reviewed on Larkware News
May 9th, 2006Yesterday Mike Gunderloy posted a small review of dbdesc 1.5 on Larkware site. (dtsdoc was reviewed last month). Mike highlights the ease of use of the tool and the power of the command-line interface. First version had, in fact, no GUI at all. I’m very happy with the review and hopefully it will increase the [...]
dbdesc 1.5 released!
April 19th, 2006Yesterday I have uploaded a new point release of dbdesc. It can be downloaded from here. These are the main changes since last version: New features New HTML template with cleaner design and images support (check this example) Extended properties are now documented Numeric fields now show precision Object permissions documented for tables, views, stored [...]
dbdesc 1.4.1 available
March 15th, 2006Yesterday I’ve uploaded a small maintenance release of dbdesc. These are the changes and bug fixes since version 1.4: Get roles of each user Document roles on SQL Server and Firebird databases XSL templates translated to Spanish (choose custom install on the setup program to install them) Documenting Access databases with the internal report engine [...]
dbdesc 1.4 released!
February 21st, 2006Yesterday I released a new version of dbdesc. This time most of the features are based on user feedback, like syntax highlighting and PDF export. This is the change log for this version: New features Added a new report engine which includes: Report viewer Built-in search PDF export Tables’ summary including data size and row [...]
dbdesc 1.3 released!
December 19th, 2005Today 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. [...]
