Toad Data Modeler Changelog

What's new in Toad Data Modeler 5.3.4.13

Jan 27, 2015
  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2014:
  • New option to define Table and User Data Types as Memory Optimized
  • New option to select Durability in Memory Optimized tables
  • New options available for Indexes and Keys of Memory Optimized tables - Hash Index, Bucket Count and Statistics Incremental
  • New Type of Stored Procedure - Natively Compiled Stored Procedure
  • Added new tabs Selective XML and Selective Secondary XML to Index Properties
  • New Index types available in Index | General | Type of Index - Columnstore, Selective XML, Secondary Selective XML
  • Support for DB2 10.5 (LUW):
  • New options to organize entities:
  • Organize by Row using Insert Time
  • Organize by Row using Dimensions
  • Organize by Column
  • New option to set parameters OCTETS/CODEUNITS16/CODEUNITS32 for the following Data Types:
  • CHAR, VARCHAR, CLOB allow OCTETS/CODEUNITS32
  • GRAPHIC, VARGRAPHIC, DBCLOB allow CODEUNITS16/CODEUNITS32
  • New option to Include/Exclude Null Keys in Indexes
  • XML Index Specifications allow parameter OCTETS/CODEUNITS32
  • New option to set parameters of Data Types:
  • CHAR, VARCHAR, CLOB allow OCTETS/CODEUNITS32
  • GRAPHIC, VARGRAPHIC, DBCLOB allow CODEUNITS16/CODEUNITS32
  • Support fro Microsoft Windows 8.1 PRO (64-bit)
  • New Model Actions window - contains the most used Model Features and allows you to save time by using Action Definitions. Click on Window Menu | Model Actions or Model | Manage Model Actions to display it
  • New Filter Bar located in:
  • Model Explorer
  • Category Properties
  • Object Groups
  • New Synchronization Options Toolbar - Contains all Synchronization Actions that were previously located in File and Model Menus
  • Improved Compare Tree Dialog in Model Actions - Added several new buttons for easier item management
  • New option - Indexes to Foreign Key Generation
  • Change Script/Alter Script options concerning use of Temporary Tables are now available also in Generate Change Script wizard | DDL Code Generation step
  • New Quick Search Icon added to the Window Toolbar
  • ENHANCEMENTS:
  • General enhancements:
  • To prevent inserting templates into SQL code immediately after selecting them from combobox in Stored Procedure Properties, users now have to select a template and click the Insert Template icon.
  • New option in Comparison Settings - Remove Trailing Whitespace. Ignores trailing whitespace characters during Model Comparison. Enabled by default.
  • Quick Search icon added to the Window Toolbar.
  • Database-specific enhancements:
  • Custom terminator can now be defined for DB2, MySQL, SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Azure during reverse engineering a DDL script. This is done in Connecting dialog while setting up a new Connection.
  • Default terminator in DB2 (LUW and zOS) changed from "/" to ";" both in Reverse Engineering and DDL Script Import.
  • PostgreSQL - system schemes and roles are now by default marked as not generated.
  • Microsoft SQL Server- Change Script generator considerably improved and sped up
  • RESOLVED ISSUES:
  • General issues:
  • Resizing Label / Label Ellipse by dragging the corner points is almost impossible. Fixed.
  • The Label Ellipse sometimes moves randomly from its previous position. Fixed.
  • Generating PDF and RTF reports - unchecking "Generate All Model Objects" checkbox (A workspace needs to be selected in Select Workspace combobox) in Options dialog in Report Wizard resulted in Microsoft Jscript Runtime error during execution. Fixed
  • Error during moving selection with Snap to Grid option enabled. Fixed. 496
  • Recalculate size function issues when using other than default zoom. Fixed.
  • Constraint for default value generated twice in alter script. Fixed.
  • Attribute Unique Data Type lost after synchronization. Fixed.
  • Moving objects in workspace could cause Model Test errors. Fixed.
  • Live Reverse Engineering drag-and-drop to Gallery was possible even when it shouldn't be. This caused Application Violation. Fixed.
  • Model Test would evaluate a situation with a view containing two attributes of the same entity as an error. Fixed.
  • Database-specific issues:
  • Oracle - entities using allowed public synonyms are flagged as invalid by Model Verification. Fixed.
  • Oracle - Parse Error when IFILE is used in TNSNAMES.ORA. Fixed. 564
  • PostgreSQL 9.1 and 9.2 - An entity can be selected as both temporary and unlogged at the same time even though these two options exclude each other. Fixed.
  • PostgreSQL - Incorrect order of the roles generation for DDL scripts. Fixed 357
  • SQL Server - Errors caused during Alter Script generation by using bad SQL command. Fixed.

New in Toad Data Modeler 5.1.1.12 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • New Support:
  • Support for Oracle 12c
  • Supported features:
  • reverse engineering
  • alter script generation
  • SQL/DDL script generation
  • reports
  • Unsupported Oracle 12c features:
  • View - views using new Oracle 12c features are not parsed (planned for the next release)
  • Entity - enable a table for row archival for In-Database Archiving (ROW ARCHIVAL clause)
  • Entity - manage policies for Automatic Data Optimization (ilm_clause)
  • Materialized View - ROW_LEVEL_LOCKING and NO_ROW_LEVEL_LOCKING options for table compression
  • New CREATE/ALTER/DROP queries - ADMINISTER KEY MANAGEMENT, CREATE/DROP/ALTER AUDIT POLICY, CREATE/DROP/ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE
  • Changes in CREATE/ALTER/DROP queries - CREATE/ALTER CLUSTER, CREATE/ALTER DATABASE, ALTER DISKGROUP, CREATE/ALTER LIBRARY, CREATE ROLE, ALTER SESSION, CREATE/ALTER USER
  • DROP INDEX - new option ONLINE (as well as existing ONLINE option in CREATE INDEX)
  • Index - key_compression option
  • General Improvements:
  • Search bar on the application toolbar:
  • Search was redesigned to enable and ease search in particular destinations, e.g. you can choose to search in Help, whole ToadWorld.com, or in particular parts of ToadWorld.com.
  • Resolved Issues and Enhancements:
  • The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release:
  • Oracle 12c Support for Oracle 12c implemented
  • Reverse Engineering PostgreSQL - Error during RE
  • Oracle - New Synonyms tab in RE Wizard (along with a new checkbox and one checkbox replaced)
  • Attributes/Data Type Second parameter of Data Type not saved.
  • Script Generator Microsoft SQL Server - Schema not linked during generation of several DROP scripts 110464
  • Reports RTF reports - If {, }, or \ characters appear in notes or comments fields, generated RTF is invalid or an incomplete report is generated.

New in Toad Data Modeler 4.1.5.8 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • Support for Ingres 10.0:
  • Reverse Engineering
  • LIVE RE
  • DDL/SQL Script Generation
  • Reports
  • Model Verification
  • Support for DB2 z/OS v.10:
  • New Data types Timestamp(x), Timestamp with time zone, Timestamp(x) with time zone.
  • Period Definition | Business Time Period added in Entity Properties, tab General.
  • Checkbox SECURED added in Trigger properties dialog and Function Properties dialog.
  • INLINE_LENGTH parameter for BLOB, CLOB and DBCLOB data types/dictionary types.
  • Column Names Business Time Without Overlaps edit box added in Key Properties, tab Attributes, and Index Properties, tab Items.
  • Generator:
  • New checkbox Append to File was added in What to Generate tab.
  • When the option is checked, the extra code is appended to the original file and nothing of the original file is overwritten.
  • Gallery:
  • Gallery has been updated and contains new objects.
  • Standard Benchmarks
  • Also new option Add to Active Model has been added in the object popup menu.
  • Macros:
  • New Macros were added in Library.
  • There are two new packs of Macros:
  • Rename Objects Pack:
  • Rename Primary Keys
  • Rename Relationships
  • Rename Check Constraint Names
  • Rename View Relationships
  • Productivity Pack:
  • Add Entities
  • Add Attributes to Selected or All Entities
  • Copy Attribute to All Entities (accessible via Model Explorer)
  • Reports:
  • In HTML reports, the content of the Description tab of Workspace Properties added at the top of every workspace displayed under the ER Diagram tab.
  • GUI:
  • View Relationships are now highlighted when moving mouse over the particular Caption.
  • Right-click relationship Caption menu functionality improved by adding new options Move Caption to Parent and Move Caption to Child.
  • In View Properties, Relationship alias is now displayed along with the Entity Name.
  • Schema Name displayed as the first part of the name of the object in the Model Explorer when the Display Mode is set to Full Names.
  • Even when Workspaces are unchecked in Selected OTPs, they still appear in differences comparison chart - Fixed.
  • Even when Before/After script of procedures and functions is unchecked in AlterScript generation Wizard, it is still generated to AlterScript - Fixed.
  • Series of errors after AlterScript generation for MySQL dbs - Fixed.
  • Wrong result of Merge Models/AlterScript generation with SQL Server 2008. It doesn't consider which model is left and which is right and sets the value of the variable to 1.
  • Add the checkbox Open Folder After Export to open the folder with the exported graphics after processing.
  • The file name offered is the name of the model. You are not prompted on overwriting the previously exported file/image.
  • When other than the system drive C: selected for export, multiplied slashes appear and the path is invalid - Fixed.
  • Doubled Domain when added from the Gallery.
  • Malfunction of Append to File- the original model is being overwritten - Fixed.
  • Logical model- Cardinality does not allow optional (1-1) relationships- not able to set a relationship cardinality to be 1.
  • Full Names shown also in Model explorer now.
  • Add possibility to reorder columns via scripting.
  • In RE Wizard (and Model Update), when Load Alias is not used and you only select the Alias and click next, default RE values are used- confusing.
  • Application of the default value of Mandatory Parent on non-identifying relationships.
  • Popup menu- Move Caption to Parent and Move Caption to Child options added.
  • In HTML reports, the content of the Description tab of Workspace Properties added at the top of every workspace displayed under the ER Diagram tab.
  • Error 'null' is null or not an object when RE 11.2.0.2 database DDL.
  • Includes options that didn't work, because they were not finished - Fixed.
  • Added option in Add Selected Objects to add relationships for the tables added in workspace.
  • Management and handling of read-only files- error thrown upon saving a file - Fixed.