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I just released 0.6 to the great un-seen sourceforge distribution network. As I type it’s flying across the internet, under the ocean via intercontinental communication pipes and maybe even into space as it’s beamed to the mirrors in eastern Europe. For some reason I always get the image in my head that there is a giant printing press printing out every line of source code I commit, which is then promptly fed into a scanner which OCR’s it and then shreds the original while the OCR’d version is stored in subversion. Who knows, it could work that way. =) Anyway, back to the topic at hand. This release includes another much promised feature, views. You can select against, modify and delete views with this release. Also this release includes a number of important fixes for stored procedures, basically it now makes stored procedures with an assigned schema work where as before they didn’t. There were also a number of miscellaneous formatting, syntax, and logic bugs that were fixed. As with stored procedures, you can get to views by right clicking on the database in the menu or left-clicking and scrolling to the bottom of the database properties page.

I’m pretty happy with 0.5. It adds one of the core features listed as a goal of this project, which is Stored Procedures. You can now view, modify, and delete stored procedures. They’re are a few kinks to be worked out like the fact that certain rare procedures refuse to be viewed/modified but can be executed. One cool feature is that procedures that have values being passed into them can auto-parse, so when you go to execute them it knows what you could/should be sending in. This feature needs a little more work to make allowances for all the ways procedures are written, but it’s there at a basic level and it works. Stored procedures are available at the bottom of the database properties page, or by right clicking on the database itself in the menu. The tables in the menu all have a context menu as well so give them a right click and see what you think.

I installed Wordpress and was quite smitten with it, so as Emeril would say: BAM! Hope you like the new software as much as I do.

Hot off the keyboard, I just released 0.4 including fun new features like beginning context menu integration (right clicking). Also the detach database function was completely broken so that was fixed. A confirmation dialog was added to both the database drop and detach database pages. Other then that it was mainly just code cleanup in both display and logic centers. I’m really getting sick of this webpage layout, so don’t be surprised if on your next visit you see some type of CMS or blog software or something similar. See you next time (7 days).

Welcome back to the land of the living, oh little project of mine. Anyway, this is a minor release that includes changes to the export system so that the system is aware of what format your outputting in (CSV or SQL). Also added is a global font setting to the config file that should take effect everywhere and let you get rid of the ghastly default font your browser may or may not use. Apologies for so few changes but I spent the better part of my free nights this week trying to make VMWare Server work on Ubuntu. I finally did it, but it took quite a few manual re-reads, forum trawls, google searches and re-installs before it worked. Far too much work for an officially supported host OS, but I digress. Download the juicy goodness that is 0.3.

Well it’s been like a year and half to go from 0.1 to 0.2 but we’re there. Check it out. Starting today I’m going to be shooting for a new release every weekend until the project moves into beta. Thanks to some brand new VM software I now have Microsoft SQL Server 2005 running along side Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to test compatibility and new features. This release received preliminary testing on 2005 and I must say very little broke. I was quite pleased. What did break has been tweaked on so it should be functional again. If not, hey, it’s only 7 days till 0.3. =)