After some time without new features, just bug fixes and maintenance releases, I’m happy to announce that dbdesc 3.0 is ready.
This new version comes with two major new features and several improvements:
- Support for MySQL 5.0 databases
- A Table Dependency Matrix is automatically generated which makes very easy to “see” the relationships between tables
Additionally, your credentials and database lists are now stored per server, which means less typing when documenting databases in different servers.
The extended properties editor has been improved too. Now it allows you to add descriptions to foreign key constraints, users and roles.
As usual, all these improvements are free for registered customers.
Please note that dbdesc 3.0 requires .NET Framework 2.0. I think that .NET 2.0 is widely spread now so it shouldn’t be a problem for anyone. I’ll be supporting dbdesc 2.2 too (which runs with .NET 1.1), even though no new features will be added, just bug fixes.