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Dbdesc 1.3 Released!

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.
  • Table dependencies
  • New XSL template called html_browse let’s you explore the database documentation using a menu
  • Minor enhancements in the other XSL templates
  • Detailed progress messages added

Bug fixes

  • Max. character length now shows the correct amount of ‘chars’. The physical length is provided in a separate field.
  • Only the first 4000 bytes of a stored procedure, view or user defined function were shown in Sql Server 2005
  • Related objects were not shown in Access

I’ve updated the web site with more sample output using Northwind and AdventureWorks databases from Microsoft and I added a new mini-FAQ in the support section.

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