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Dbdesc 1.5 Released!

Yesterday 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

    <li>New HTML template with cleaner design and images support (<a href="http://www.dbdesc.com/output_samples/html_northwindimages.html">check this example</a>)</li>
    <li>Extended properties are now documented</li>
    <li>Numeric fields now show precision </li>
    <li>Object permissions documented for tables, views, stored procedures and UDF </li>
    <li>Application roles marked as such</li>
    <li>Case-sensitive databases support </li>
    <li>New command-line switches to exclude database objects </li>
    <li>Index size on table's summary on internal report</li>
    <li>Syntax highlighter performance improved </li>
    <li>Updated XSLT templates to handle the new sections</li>
    

Bug fixes

  • Overlapped long user names on some reports
  • Error when multidotted table names present on SQL Server 2000 databases
  • Missing check constraints sections on Word 2003 and RTF templates
  • Some other minor bugs fixed

I want to thank everyone that has been sending me feedback about dbdesc. It is getting better with each release. Keep the feedback coming!

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