[VStudio][NEW] Commands GenerateSQL -> Insert / Update / Delete.

While you are in the Schema Editor, Column or Tree view, you can do right click on a table and in the contextual menu choose GenerateSQL -> Insert / Update / Delete.

You  will be asked to specify fields for Insert / Update commands, after that you will see SQL Editor with generated command. You still need finish it of course in VALUES() section for INSERT, and SET section for UPDATE command.

Anyway this feature can save you couple of minutes of job per each such command.

[NEW] VStudio – SQL Dump allows specify few tables only

Now SQL Dump wizard has page where you can specify by checkbox only few tables to be dumped.

This can be suitable for example working with Joomla web site, when single mySQL database contains 200+ tables from different tools such as Joomla, Store, Mantis, WP, … So there are independent groups of tables.

WARNING: You should understand that if you dump some table A, but forget to dump linked by FK table B, you can get troubles. But most DB tools have this feature, so developers should be aware about this risk.

[NEW] VStudio – Enum with localisation is supported now

Some time ago we have extend ENUM type by ability to have additional sets of enum values for specific locales. Now we introduce support of this new feature of Valentina 5.0 engine in the Valentina Studio 5.0b54.

This feature is supported in the following places:

  1. Schema Editor
    1.1 Columns: you are able create ENUM types, create/delete/change Locales in that Enums, change localised values.
    1.2 Trees: you can see ENUMs and their Locales in the tree of db schema
    1.3 Diagrams: you can design type ENUM right on diagram.
  2. Data Editor — IF table has at least one ENUM type, then you will see small menu in toolbar that allows you  switch between supported locales of that enum.
  3. SQL Editor — IF result of SQL query contains ENUM fields,  then you will see small menu in toolbar that allows you  switch between supported locales of that enum.
Below you can see few snapshots that demonstrate these features. Read More about ENUM TYPE …

 

[Fix] VStudio Linux crash log from a beta tester did help recognize that …

… although Vstudio linux is installed into /opt  location, it loads /usr/local/lib/vcomponents if they present.

Today this issue was solved. Into script that start Vstudio, was added pre-load for vcomponents dlls. After this one dll have start cause problem because it contains static library that is newer than system’s one. Many hours was not successful, because of GCC 4.2 bug… Finally, a “brutal force trick” was used (the second time) to workaround this issue.

[NEW] VStudio now is able to send a crash log file to Valentina team

In a case of crash, Valentina Studio on linux and windows now is able  to create text file that contains crash log  information (stack of calls, loaded DLLs, … ). MAC OS X version of VStudio have no need to do this because OS X itself generates such crash log.

On the next start Valentina Studio will show dialog with suggestion to send this crash log to Valentina-db.com. Please note, this crash log contains totally anonymous information. This information will help to Valentina team to see that there was fact of crash, and where exactly was crash.  You can set check box to not show this dialog future and just send a crash report automatically if it is found.

On Windows and Linux, after sending of crash log file, it is deleted from disk of your computer. On OS X it is not deleted, because OS X append them  into single file per application.

[NEW] Localisable ENUM Type

Ladies and Gentlemen!  
The first time in the world!  🙂
Localizable Enum Type in DBMS!  

We already many months have working ENUM type in 5.0 branch of Valentina. Let me remind that ENUM type is not from SQL standard, so different DBs implement it in different way if at all implement. We have implemented it using CREATE TYPE command of SQL Standard. And we have implement ENUM in way similar to PostgreSQL, because it is the most correct: you just CREATE TYPE ENUM once and later using it in all places of your database.

mySQL, in contrast, defines ENUM as part of a particular Table, right in the CREATE TABLE command. This is not good of course, because then you cannot use this type in other tables or for variables of Stored Procedures.


CREATE TABLE sizes (
name ENUM('small', 'medium', 'large')
);

It is interesting that such mature database as Oracle do not have ENUM type.

All these existed implementations have one big problem from our point of view: such enum types contains string values of only one language. Below we will describe our solution.

Continue reading [NEW] Localisable ENUM Type

Now we have v4 and v5 WIKIs

Now we have two separate wikis to keep docs of v4 and v5:

Valentina Studio v5 will to v5 section, vstudio v6 will point to v5 section, and so on.
Old url http://www.valentina-db.com/dokuwiki  will point to the docs of the current official release.

[NEW] VStudio – Check Updates

We have add into Valentina Studio feature “Check Updates”. Only Mac App Store version will not have it, because AppStore itself take care about updates.

On start Valentina Studio will send a GET query to valentina-db site. This will happens in separate thread to not delay user in the case of network trouble.

You will be able enable/disable this feature in prefs panel, also you can specify if report about beta builds of vstudio.

I want note, that in this GET query we also will send some anonymous information such as:

  • OS on which works studio
  • version of studio
  • 32 or 64 bit architecture
  • MD5 hash of MAC address of the computer.
We going to use this hash as anonymous identifier of some computer where vstudio is started. So we will be able, to see that e.g. 30% of users start vstudio  each day, 10% once per week … may be something else …
Future we going add yet automatic sending of crash log if any. Again such anonymous identifier will allow us link that crash logs together in our database.
Also we thinking about adding into Valentina Studo of integration to our Mantis bug tracker, so user can report issue or make a feature request right from vstudio.

[NEW] VStudio + iValentina now sync bookmarks using iCloud

We have made first step to support iCloud technology from Apple.

Now Valentina Studio for MAC OS X (and only one, which is download from MacAppStore) will have iCloud prefs pane, that allows you to specify what to synch in the iCloud. For now this is bookmarks and resent connections to db servers.

Continue reading [NEW] VStudio + iValentina now sync bookmarks using iCloud

Valentina Studio gets redesigned Server Admin tool

This tool now can work with Valentina Server, PostgreSQL and mySQL.

This is the central place where you can:

  • manage databases: create, drop; register/unregister, …
  • manage valentina projects: create/drop, register/unregister, …
  • manage users, groups and roles
  • view server-side log files
  • view and edit ini-file parameters of a server

[NEW] Valentina Studio – Postgre plugin – now can dump/load using pg_dump engine

We was able embed into Valentina Studio plugin the pg_dump engine to dump a database into different formats of text files  and load these text files back into database.

You can access these dump/load commands from the File menu of Valentina Studio application or from the contextual menu of a database object.

Continue reading [NEW] Valentina Studio – Postgre plugin – now can dump/load using pg_dump engine