Frequently Asked Questions

Both tools, Database Tour Pro and Reportizer, use the same report engine (vlReport). The report templates of these tools usually compatible and can be edited by both tools.

But there are also important differences between these tools. While Database Tour Pro is a general database tool, where database reporting is one of the many features, Reportizer is designed for reporting purposes only. Each of them has its own advantages, but Reportizer in most cases provides more powerful and convenient way to design database reports, which achieved by including the following features:

- Opportunity to work with report collections (folders or databases with reports).
- Ability to disable report editing by the program administrator (with password protection), which is necessary sometimes when the program is used by several people and some of them are not advanced users and have permissions only to print reports, not edit.
- Ability to edit reports not only in visual designer, but also in text mode.

Both tools, Exportizer Pro and Database Tour (Pro), use the same export engine and has almost the same export possibilities. But Database Tour has a lot of other possibilities, while Exportizer Pro is designed for export purposes mainly.

First uninstall the program from the old computer using the Control Panel. Next install it on the new computer. If you already purchased it, register it with your registration name and serial number.

Note, that you may use your purchased product on the amount of computers, which is allowed by purchased license.

For example, if you purchased one license, you may use the program on one computer only, as it is described here.

In your case, it means you have already activated Database Tour with your serial number on other computer(s) and you are trying to activate it on extra computer. So, you should uninstall Database Tour on some other computer(s) and try again. If the problem still exists, please contact us with specifying your serial number.

The activation of Database Tour is done in two steps: validation of your serial number, and the activation itself.

You usually should not have problems with first step, if you have valid serial number.

The second step (activation) is used to prevent casual piracy. Note, that you may use your purchased product on the amount of computers, which is allowed by purchased license. Activation just ensures that your serial number was used in compliance with Database Tour license; in other words, it ensures, that amount of computers, where your serial number is used, is not larger than amount of copies purchased.

For example, if you purchased one license, you may use the program on one computer only, as it is described here.

Activation is usually done automatically behind the scene, after you enter your serial number and if you have Internet connection.

In your case, it seems, the serial number validation passed successfully, but activation failed due to either your serial number is used on other computer(s), or you have not Internet connection on your computer.

If you have not Internet connection on the computer where you want to use Database Tour, you should obtain the activation code using another computer, which has Internet connection, and then enter it in the program; just follow instructions, which appear after unsuccessful activation.

Yes. Database Tour Pro can perform database operations from command line with optional use of /silent switch.

See also
Brief info and examples: Command Line Using.
Full technical documentation about command line.

Database Tour (Pro) executes SQL queries by passing them to the database engine or server used when opening the database. So please refer to the corresponding database engine or server documentation.

Here are some examples:

You are working with an Oracle database: read the Oracle documentation
You are working with a SQL Server database: read the SQL Server documentation
You are working with a PostgreSQL database: read the PostgreSQL documentation
You are working with dBase (dbf) files via BDE: read BDE Local SQL documentation
You are working with a MS Access (mdb) database via Microsoft Jet engine: read the Microsoft Jet documentation

and so on.

See also
Working with SQL Queries

Yes. When this library exists in the folder, where BDE (Borland Database Engine) files are located, the corresponding items will appear in Database Tour Table | BDE utilities menu.

Attention! BDE is obsolete technology. You use this feature at your own risk.