Archive for the 'dbdesc' Category
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 OF triggers
Stored procedure parameters documented
Index properties […]
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 procedures and UDF
Application roles […]
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 was reporting wrong data types
Error […]
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 count (only on SQL […]
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.
Table dependencies
New XSL template called html_browse […]
Maintenance release uploaded
December 7th, 2005I’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 released soon.
However the […]
Future features and users’ feedback
December 5th, 2005I 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 have little probability to be […]
dbdesc 1.2 released!
November 21st, 2005I’m pleased to announce the release of dbdesc version 1.2.
This release adds a new GUI to run dbdesc (of course you can still launch dbdesc from the command line).
This is a screenshot of dbdesc-gui running on Windows XP:
This release also includes support for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express databases and a new […]
Adding a WordML XSLT template to dbdesc (and V)
November 13th, 2005I’ve finished today the new Word 2003 template for dbdesc. This time I’m not going to post the code, instead you can download it from here. However I want to post a summary about the building process of this template.
First of all I know that not many users will use this template because it needs […]
