Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/26
Database Workbench is my tool of choice for doing database work: it supports many backends in a consistent manner, and behaves a lot like Delphi (like running and debugging stored procedures).
Yesterday the free Lite Editions of Version 4.3.1 got released:
Database Workbench 4.3.1 free Lite Editions released
This new release of Database Workbench brings new features and enhancements, as requested by our users.
The free Lite Editions are now available.
More information about Database Workbench is available at the Database Workbench page, download your copy today via our downloads page, pricing information is available, the limited Lite Editions are available for free.
Changes in this release
- The full details and list of changes are available here and here.
- New
- MySQL Stored Procedure, Function and Trigger Debugging (Pro Edition only)
- InterBase and Firebird syntax check in Trigger Editor (Pro Edition only)
- Incremental search of data in SQL, Table and View Editor
Changes
- More compact taskbar
- MySQL support for BINARY and VARBINARY datatypes
- MySQL error fixed when not having access to mysql.procs
- MySQL fix for fetching foreign key information
- Data Import and Export fixes
- Windows 7 event log error by SideBySide fixed
And much more…
–jeroen
via News @ Upscene Productions.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/21
Few people know about the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views that have been there since SQL-92.
Two funny things about that standard:
A few reasons I can imagine not many people know about the INFORMATION_SCHEMA:
- Not all relational database servers implement them, and of the ones that do implement them, not all versions implement all views.
That’s what this article is about; currently it lists only SQL Server 2000 and 2008 R2 (tried both) and PostgreSQL (verified docs), but I will update it as soon as I have run the script on other versions of SQL server and database vendors.
- It is hard to find the official ISO standards in a public way, and ISO itself sometimes puts things online, and at other times wants money for it
I remember the Y2K preparation era where the ISO-8601 standard was freely available at http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf, soon after the Year 2000, the PDF got locked behind a payment engine.
ISO suffers from heavy link rot too, for instance the ISO 3166 country codes used to be at http://www.iso.org/iso/prods-services/iso3166ma, but are now at http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes.htm. What about HTTP 303 or 302 redirect here guys?
Since SQL-92, the INFORMATION_SCHEMA (and its twin DEFINITION_SCHEMA) have been extended. The last extension in 2008. Together they allow SQL databases to be self-describing (I think no vendor has attained that) and the structures queryable in a standard way
In fact that is the main purpose:Â these views in INFORMATION_SCHEMAÂ are a very convenient standard way to query – in a vendor agnostic way – about tables, views, columns, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
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