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04/30/2008 PostgreSQL Data Wizard 8.4 released
A new version of PostgreSQL Data Wizard, a powerful utility for managing your PostgreSQL data, has been released.
Please consider the list of new features implemented in PostgreSQL Data Wizard 8.4:
Common improvements:
| • | Now it is possible to create a system scheduled task or convert a task created in Data wizard to system one. Such tasks can be executed by the Windows scheduler service even without user logon. |
| • | Command line options are implemented. The syntax is as follows: |
datawizard_executable[.exe] task_type template_file_name [log_file_name]
where task_type can be one of the following:
aspnetgen |
ASP.NET Generator Task |
datapump |
Data Pump |
export |
Data Export Task |
import |
Data Import Task |
phpgen |
PHP Generator Task |
Examples:
| • | "C:\Program Files\SQL Maestro Group\Data Wizard for MySQL\mydatawizard.exe" phpgen "C:\Tempates\PHPGenerator\MySQL\sakila.pgt" "C:\Tempates\PHPGenerator\MySQL\sakila.log" |
| • | "C:\Program Files\SQL Maestro Group\MS SQL Data Wizard\msdatawizard.exe" export "C:\Tempates\Export\MsSQL\northwind.ext" |
| • | Since this version each task is displayed as a separated icon in the system tray when executing. |
DBMS-related features:
| • | A possibility of connecting to remote PostgreSQL databases via HTTP tunneling has been implemented. The technology works as follows: |
| o | Upload the connection PHP script to your website. The scripts are named pgsql_tunnel.php can be found under the corresponding installation folder. |
| o | Test the script in your web-browser (optionally). |
| o | Enter the script URL in the corresponding edit field at the first step of a wizard. Of course you should turn ON the "I have to use HTTP tunneling" option. |
PHP Generator features:
| • | Since this version it is possible to specify different connection parameters for the database server and generated PHP scripts. |
| • | An ability of building UTF-8 web applications has been added. |
| • | BLOB fields now can be represented as pictures. It is also possible to add, edit and delete the images directly from the generated web application. |
| • | Starting with this version our software allows you to create web-pages with hyperlinks. The result links are constructed as follows: Prefix + contents of HREF field + Suffix. The Target attribute can be customized too. |
| • | PHP Generator now supports creation of look up menus based on a custom value list. For ENUM fields such list is created automatically. |
| • | The View, Edit, and Delete command links are now placed at the left of data columns by default. |
| • | The wizard window becomes resizable. Also it can be maximized or minimized. |
| • | Now our software generates classic PHP opening tags (<?php) instead of short ones (<?). |
Other new features:
| • | Data Pump: now you can execute custom SQL scripts after connecting, before data importing and after pumping. |
| • | ASP.NET generator: since this version it is possible to specify a custom connection string. |
| • | All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made. |
08/22/2007 PostgreSQL Data Wizard 7.8 released
A new version of PostgreSQL Data Wizard, a powerful utility for managing your PostgreSQL data, has been released.
Please consider the list of new features implemented in PostgreSQL Data Wizard 7.8:
| • | The main feature of this version is ASP.NET Generator, a powerful tool for producing ASP.NET scripts for the selected tables, views and queries for the further working with these objects through the web. Key features: |
| • | full customization of the HTML pages appearance with some standard HTML templates provided for your convenience; |
| • | full adjustment of the result script: you can enable/disable record filtering, column ordering, adding/editing/deleting records in the result script and many more; |
| • | advanced security options allowing you to request user name and password when someone attempts to access your script or to execute some of the specific actions: detailed viewing, adding, editing, or deleting of a table/query row; |
| • | filtering and sorting abilities of the result scripts; |
| • | automatic creation of lookup menus for foreign key constraints and custom values; |
| • | integrated script navigation with customization; |
| • | ability to create multilingual web apps. |
| • | New Shell Application with Ribbon toolbars (like Office 2007) and more. |
| • | PHP Generator: now it is possible to create a lookup menu for a column using a custom value list. |
| • | Data Pump: now optimized for Microsoft.Jet engine. |
| • | Data Import: the speed of loading of Excel files was significantly increased. |
| • | All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made. |
06/30/2006 - PostgreSQL Data Wizard 6.6 released
A new version of PostgreSQL Data Wizard, a powerful utility for managing your PostgreSQL data, has been released.
Please consider the list of new features implemented in PostgreSQL Data Wizard 6.6:
| • | Data Wizard Task Scheduler implemented: now there is no need to perform repeated actions, just set the task (or task list) to be executed by schedule in background mode minutely, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly. You can also cease the task from executing at a specified date or after a certain number of the process repetitions; |
| • | implemented a lot of security options for PHP Generator Wizard. These options allow you to request user name and password when a user attempts to access your script or to execute some of the specific actions: detailed viewing, adding, editing, or deleting of a table/query row. All the settings are available at the Security Options page; |
| • | added an opportunity to edit Lookup options while the web pages are being created: these features help you to customize the HTML appearance of your PosgreSQL databases for easy and efficient operating your data in the future: while working with the site you will only need to select the required names instead of entering the IDs manually; to make a comparison, you can view an example of the result page generated with lookup options applied and the one generated without lookup options; |
| • | several minor improvements for better code generation performed in PHP Generator; |
| • | improved Data Pump interface; |
| • | fixed a possible problem with exporting custom query result in some cases, if the query text contains characters typed in uppercase; |
| • | Data Export Wizard now determines column size for custom queries correctly (fixed after a bug report); |
| • | fixed some minor bugs. |
05/01/2006 - First public release of PostgreSQL Data Wizard
We are pleased to introduce PostgreSQL Data Wizard 6.5 - a powerful utility for managing your PostgreSQL data.
PostgreSQL Data Wizard provides you with a number of easy-to-use wizards for performing the required data manipulation easily and quickly. It allows you to generate PHP scripts for the selected tables and queries, convert any ADO-compatible database to the PostgreSQL database with its structure and data, export data from PostgreSQL tables and queries to most popular formats and import data into the tables.
Product release versions are formalized according to temporal principles: the first figure of the product version stands for the year of release; the second figure of the version is meant to indicate the month of the current version release. Hence the present version is 6.5.
While developing the new software product we tried to implement the usable features available in the existing products and provide it with unique functionality. Please consider the short list of PostgreSQL Data Wizard 6.5 main features below:
| • | powerful PHP Generator for creating PHP scripts from PostgreSQL tables and queries from different databases; full customization of the result HTML appearance with some standard HTML templates provided for your convenience; full customization of the result script: you can enable/disable record filtering, column ordering, adding/editing/deleting records in the result script and many more; |
| • | Data Pump Wizard implementation: you can convert any local or remote ADO-compatible database with its structure and data to your PostgreSQL database in a few mouse clicks; full customization of the target database and objects: you can create a new database or convert it to the existing one, select objects for conversion and adjust their properties for the target database; adjustable data import from the source tables to the target ones with the ability of viewing and editing the SQL script generated for the database conversion; |
| • | easy data export operations: PostgreSQL Data Wizard 6.5 provides a powerful tool for exporting data from PostgreSQL tables and queries to any of the 14 available formats: MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word, RTF, HTML, PDF, XML, TXT, DBF, CSV, SYLK, DIF, LaTeX and SQL to different databases with an ability to select fields to be included into the result files and full customization of the result export files: formats, headers/footers, record count, etc. and powerful options for specific customization: full Excel formatting including notes and hyperlinks, RTF formatting, full HTML and PDF appearance adjustment, and more; |
| • | efficient tools for importing data: PostgreSQL Data Wizard 6.5 provides a powerful tool for importing data into PostgreSQL tables from different databases with the following available formats: MS Excel, MS Access, XML, DBF, TXT and CSV; easy adjustments of the source file columns and the destination table fields and full customization of the import process for each imported file including data formats for all or selected fields, commit options, number of rows to skip and records to import, etc., the ability to define the key columns for the table and select whether to skip, update or delete the records if their keys value match the imported ones; |
| • | the Shell Application that provides friendly user interface for working with all the implemented wizards: easy-to-use interface provided by the PostgreSQL Data Wizard will make your work with PostgreSQL data fast and highly efficient; |
We hope that you will enjoy working with your PostgreSQL SQL data!
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