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5.83 (7/28/2008)

  • New export options.
  • Minor changes and bugfixes in export routines.

5.82 (5/26/2008)

  • Italian interface added.
  • Minor changes in export routines and SQL engine.
  • Redesigned Open Data Source dialog.
  • New report objects: File Text and File Image (Database Tour Pro only).
  • New functions for report expressions: UNQUOTE and REPLACE (Database Tour Pro only).
  • Highlighting key property in Object Inspector of report designer by bold font (Database Tour Pro only).

5.81 (3/3/2008)

  • Minor changes in export routines.

5.8 (2/18/2008)

  • New export formats: INSERT statements, Excel Instance, Word Instance, dBase table (simplified), Excel (XML-based).
  • New export options.
  • New command line parameters (Database Tour Pro only).

5.7 (11/19/2007)

  • Minor changes in SQL engine.
  • New report engine 2.0 (Database Tour Pro only).
  • New report and report objects' properties (Database Tour Pro only).
  • New report export format: static report (Database Tour Pro only).

5.64 (8/19/2007)

  • Changes in connections to Microsoft Access databases.
  • More precise output in reports (Database Tour Pro only).
  • Minor changes in reports (Database Tour Pro only).

5.63 (08/06/2007)

  • New function QUERYRES for using in report expressions (Database Tour Pro only).
  • Minor changes.

5.62 (07/02/2007)

  • Minor changes in report and SQL engines.
  • Ability to open text of stored procedure for Oracle and Interbase databases.

5.61 (05/14/2007)

  • Minor changes in report and SQL engines.

5.6 (04/23/2007)

  • Better processing queries, especially in Oracle databases.
  • Faster extracting table field information for ADO connections.
  • New command line parameters for executing BDE utilities like packing, duplicating, changing language driver etc. (Database Tour Pro only).
  • Improved prosessing expressions in reports (Database Tour Pro only).

5.53 (03/19/2007)

  • Improvements in SQL editor.

5.52 (03/12/2007)

  • Improvements in SQL editor (including code completion).
  • Using macros in SQL.
  • New command line parameters for specifying SQL macros and parameters (Database Tour Pro only).

5.51 (02/05/2007)

  • Ability to find and replace text via String Data Functions module.
  • New command line parameters for working with field data. This includes also ability to use log of performed operations almost for all modes.
  • Redesigned and more convenient module for command line generating.
  • Minor changes.

5.5 (01/15/2007)

  • Better, more informative help files with new design.
  • Minor changes.

5.4 (12/20/2006)

  • Better multi-language support: using language packages.
  • New report property: report author (Database Tour Pro only).

5.32 (11/13/2006)

  • Improved Blob Editor (working with memo and pictures).
  • Ability to directly open Visual FoxPro (*.dbc) files.
  • Better support of Visual FoxPro in Creating Tables module.
  • Improved printing of images in reports (Database Tour Pro only).

5.31 (08/23/2006)

  • Using predefined parameters in queries.
  • New command line options (Database Tour Pro only).
  • Conditional highlighting of report objects (Database Tour Pro only).

5.3 (08/06/2006)

  • Fixed bug in exporting to file via ADO.
  • Significant improvements in report engine and report builder (Database Tour Pro only).

5.2 (07/16/2006)

  • French interface support.
  • Improved report exporting to HTML (Database Tour Pro only).
  • Fixed bug when printing checkboxes in reports (Database Tour Pro only).

5.11 (06/18/2006)

  • New options for creating tables.
  • Ability to use semicolon separator for CSV export.

5.1 (05/06/2006)

  • New module for creating tables.
  • Corrected and more convenient text export when using ADO.
  • Changes in SQL templates.
  • Generating DDL expressions for tables in Oracle, Interbase, and SQL Server databases.
  • Ability to retrieve additional information about fields and indexes for tables in some database types (for example, SQL Server) when connecting via ADO.
  • Using Database Tour as editor of .INI and .SCH files.
  • Corrections in Polish interface.

5.07 (03/04/2006)

  • Quick changing parameters of open BDE alias with reopening the database after the change.
  • Quick opening databases by going from a folder of lower level to a folder of upper level.
  • Minor changes.

5.06 (01/12/2006)

  • Ability to specify field mappings when exporting data.
  • Ability to load / save field mappings when importing data.
  • New command line switch /FieldMappingsFile for exporting data (Database Tour Pro only).

5.05 (12/22/2005)

  • New objects' alignment utilities in Report Builder module (Database Tour Pro only).
  • Ability to quickly print current record.
  • New command line switch /AppendLog (Database Tour Pro only).
  • Minor changes and bug fixes.

5.04 (11/14/2005)

  • New command line switches to open remote databases: general /SrcUserName, /SrcPassword and for exporting /DestUserName, /DestPassword.

5.03 (10/12/2005)

  • Ability to pack and or regenerate indexes for all DB and DBF tables in one directory at a time (BDE connections only).
  • Generating SQL statements for field definitions (for selected table or for export destination).
  • Fixed a bug, which prevented packing DBF tables.
  • New command line switches: /usepasswords (for Paradox password protected tables) and /notincludetitles (for data exporting).
  • New functions for reports: DATABASENAME and DATASETNAME.
  • New options for creating default report title.

5.02 (09/05/2005)

  • Selecting tasks on startup.
  • Quick access to most recently used report templates in Report Builder (Database Tour Pro only).
  • Minor changes and bug fixes.

5.01 (07/31/2005)

  • Report builder improvement: selecting more than one object at a time, new objects and object properties.
  • Ability to work with databases not only via BDE, but also via ADO. Among other advantages, this gives an ability to open new database types, opening which was very difficult or impossible in previous versions, for example, CSV, XLS, HTML, Lotus, Microsoft Access 2000 and above.
  • Ability to save / load SQL history (page SQL | History). SQL History (all executed SQLs) can be saved to SQL, HTML, RTF files and to internal format (SQH) too and can be loaded from internal format files.
  • New BDE-specific functions (Table | BDE Utilities menu) and options (Options | BDE Options menu) added (for example, regenerating indexes, changing field name, changing language driver either for a table or for database driver).
  • New functions for selected column (Column menu), such as copying values from one record to another, pasting cells from clipboard and so on.
  • More information available about previously opened databases and current database (Database | Database History... and Database | Properties... menu).
  • Easy managing all previously opened databases (Database | Database History... menu).
  • New command line options: general (-ado) and for exporting (-XMLSchema,
    -Encoding, -IncludeImages).
  • Improved tool for automatic creation of the command lines (File | Generate Command Line menu).
  • Find Field function (in Search menu).
  • BLOBs autodetection. Now Database Tour in some cases can automatically
    detect the actual type of data in BLOB fields and show this data properly.
    Note, that it can automatically detect only several graphic formats (bitmap,
    metafile, icon, JPEG) and some other formats (for example, RTF) and only if
    the data contains all needed information for this.

4.9.9 (12/25/2004)

  • SQL editor improvement – dropdown table names and initial key words.
  • Duplicate Record function (from Row menu) works now also for BLOB-fields (MEMO, Graphic).

4.9.8 (11/04/2004)

  • New command line export switch (/closeonerror).
  • Quick relog as another user (SQL databases only). Just click twice ‘User…’ line in the bottom left window under the table list.

4.9.7 (09/28/2004)

  • Ability to capitalize in String Functions.
  • Small changes in report generator and report builder.
  • Several bugfixes, for example, in the context menu of table list.

4.9.4 (08/08/2004)

  • Minor changes and bugfixes.

4.9.3 (07/27/2004)

  • Command line structure changed. /closeafter and /minimize options can be used now for any operations.

4.9.2 (06/27/2004)

  • Ability to specify custom field separator for text export.
  • Fixed bug in calculating report expressions.

4.8 (05/22/2004)

  • Executing multistatement SQL scripts.
  • SQL history added on page SQL | History. This history is saved and available after reopening the program.
  • More convenient working with Fields, Indexes, SQL History tables. For example, data from the tables can be sorted or copied to clipboard.
  • New export features – RTF export added, HTML and XML export improved. When exporting to HTML, the data are exported now in view like it represented in Database Tour (including pictures and conditional formatting of data).
  • New command line export options.
  • Extended Metadata block.

4.7 (03/21/2004)

  • Mouse wheel features in tables and report preview added.
  • Some changes in Report builder.
  • Several changes in report structure. For example, property Display Mask added for Expression and Database Text objects.

4.6 (02/15/2004)

  • New command line export options.
  • Scaling in report preview.

4.5 (02/02/2004)

  • Improved view.
  • New SQL editor functions.
  • German language support.

4.4 (12/06/2003)

  • Improved table export to XML and XLS formats.
  • New SQL editor capabilities: dragging files into, searching / replacing the text, SQL text errors handling, bookmarking etc.
  • Ability to export reports to XLS format.
  • New environment and export options.
  • Search in table, field and index lists.
  • Search in Report Builder.

4.3 (11/11/2003)

  • New export options.
  • SQL syntax highlighting in SQL-editor.

4.2 (10/27/2003)

  • Export to XML, TXT, CSV, HTML formats writes data directly to file, without cashing in memory (as before). This improves performing.
  • Copying data to clipboard improved.
  • New environment settings.
  • Polish language support.
  • Working with bookmarks.

4.1 (07/01/2003)

  • Ability to use the query parameters in report expressions.
  • Several new report schemes (styles) added.
  • New features to work with Blob data (graphics etc.).
  • The bug fixed in whole-word text replacing.
  • Russian language support.

4.0 (05/29/2003)

  • Expanding of importing data into an open table from other data source (also from external databases).
  • New properties of the report objects: multicolumn reports, forcing new page for some bands etc.
  • Ability to set up the column properties in tables individually, including visual properties (color, font, title), mode (e.g. read only) and pick lists. Also you can now fix column to avoid horizontal scrolling of them. Such column settings can be saved in file and loaded from file when needed.
  • Ability to export data through the command line.
  • New command line options.
  • Duplicating tables.
  • Accepting files from the Windows Explorer.
  • Working with RTF data.
  • XML export.

3.21 (11/16/2002)

  • New report and report builder capabilities (e.g. new shape object features, lines tool bar, new colors, etc.).
  • Ability to specify the record range in some database operations.
  • Small bugs fixed in reports.

3.2 (09/15/2002)

  • Export to XLS format.
  • New band-oriented  report builder with lot of capabilities, such as creating calculated fields, more functions in expressions, group and page totals, exporting to HTML or text file and much more.
  • Easy creating Database Tour shortcuts (File | Create Shortcut menu). You can specify some actions, which must be performed automatically by the program, when it starts after the shortcut was activated.
  • Opening InterBase databases (.GDB files) without needing to create aliases.
  • Auto filling the filter condition.
  • Ability to set data of all records of the selected field to the specified incremental numberSetField (i.e. number, which is incremented for each record).
  • Whole words searching option.
  • Ability to copy to clipboard not only full table, but also current record and current column.
  • New environment options.

3.11 (03/18/2002)

  • More execution statistics.
  • Fixed a bug in “silent” encrypting / decrypting files.
  • Fixed a text-printing bug.
  • Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the program to crash while attempting to close a database.

3.1 (02/19/2002)

  • More convenient data view.
  • Some innovations in report and in data printing. This includes color and font style support, graphic fields support and so on.
  • Many operations are executed faster.
  • Ability to cancel some operations (printing, report preview and so on).
  • Quick search function added.
  • Supporting parameterized queries.
  • New capabilities in HTML and text export.
  • Fixed 2 bugs in HTML and text export.

3.0 (12/04/2001)

  • Creating and configuring BDE aliases.
  • Customizing data view.
  • Export to a HTML document or text file.
  • Saving / Loading a report template to / from a file.
  • Some innovations in reports: rearranging columns, building expressions, page numbers, and density of rows.
  • Several new arithmetic functions: minimum and maximum value of a selected field, count of non-empty values of a selected field.
  • Ability to print the table structure and database structure.
  • Setting the field data to the same value.
  • Several new environment options, including SQL editor options.
  • Ability to associate some file types with Database Tour at any time.
  • Using master source in queries.
  • New command line options.
  • Stretch option in the graphic editor.
  • Fixed bug in the Print Table function (Print Data Grid in previous versions), when in some cases not all records were printed.

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