Winstep Nexus Dock

What's new in this version:

Logical Design:
DbSchema supports logical design. The logical design is database-independent, with entities and sub-entities:
Logical Design Sub-Entities:
- Sub-entities can be created by adding a field of type sub-entity to a table

There are also supported different relation types:
Logical Design Relations:
- The logical model can be converted to a physical model and synchronized with the database
- We continue to improve the logical design also in the upcoming releases

Reverse engineer using DDL:
- In the previous versions, we reverse-engineer the schema by reading the metadata from system tables
- For most of the databases, we call methods from the JDBC driver, and only for a few of them did we execute direct queries on the system tables
- Now, we are using a DDL parser that can reverse engineer the schema from the CREATE TABLE DDL statement
- The DDL is generated using commands like ‘Show create table’, or using a dedicated procedure (SqlServer)

Comment Tags:
- Besides text, the table, column, and foreign keys can use key/value comment tags
- The tags can be used in the automation scripts, and in the logical design for the entity or field’s physical name

Reverse Engineer Using DDL:
- This allows us to reverse engineer all parameters, like collation, partition keys, etc., and more table-specific parameters - like temporal tables, etc
- This feature is available for all databases where we found a way to generate the table DDL

Here are the current databases where this feature is implemented:
- MySql, MariaDb, Oracle, SqlServer, AzureSQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Vertica, Sqlite, Exasol, SAPHana, GoogleBigQuery, Databricks, Cassandra
- Improvements for MongoDB
- We do diagrams and schema validation rules for MongoDB. Whenever a validation rule is defined, we reverse engineer the collection structure using it
- If not, we deduce the collection structure by introspecting a few documents
- Whenever you design a collection, the collection validation rule gets updated

Automation Scripts for generating HTML or PDF Documentation:
- We added more parameters for generating the HTML or PDF documentation
- Therefore we created a more flexible method in Java. Please have a look on the DbSchema API for details

Further improvements:
- Feature: Result Pane error message as dialog
- Feature: InfluxDB integrations
- Feature: PDF documentation, add parameter for skipping tooltip comments. Improve look.
- Feature: Add more options to the documentation dialog
- Feature: Exasol support hashtype data type
- Feature: Color picker editable hex value
- Bug: Fixes and improvements in the DDL Parser
- Bug: MongoDB load statement using the driver class loader. This solves issues with ObjectId.