Toad Data Modeler 3.5Release InformationThe current version of Toad Data Modeler is 3.5. New Features and Enhancements include:- Support for Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit
- Support for IBM DB2 LUW 9.7 and PostgreSQL 8.4
- Templates now allow users to use pre-defined templates, customizable templates or Toad templates to save time and give you greater flexibility
- Application Variables allow users to define default values (i.e. relationship names - <%ParentTableName%>_<%ChildTableName%>), create user templates in the Template Editor and for properties that contain SQL code (SQL, Before Script, After Script etc.)
- Object Viewer has been enhanced, allowing for quick searching of objects in the model and easier access to editing of model properties
- Naming conventions have been updated to allow for the deployment and management of naming standards to save time
- Default Values dialog has been simplified significantly so users can define default values for new objects of their models comfortably
- Macros functionality has been enhanced, allowing for visual creation of macros - you can also add macros to the pop-up menu of particular objects and use enhanced scripting (new sample macros Infer Relationships and Aplhabetic Autolayout are available in Macros menu)
- Alter Script generation enhancements greatly reduces the steps and time needed to compare a model to a database and generate an alter script
- Reverse Engineering Wizard has been updated by new options such as Reload Aliases, Divide Objects on Workspace by User/Schema and improved Filter functionality
- SQL/DDL Script Generation offers enhacements that include the ability to drop keys (primary, alternate), indexes, relationships and triggers outside the Create Table statement OR possibity to generate keys, indexes or triggers without the necessity to generate tables or views and more (users can change order of generated objects from the DDL Script Generation dialog directly)
- GUI enhancements include insert image to Workspace (WS), highlight key attributes and select a color for them - also, you can select parent and child objects on the WS at one jump, option to set the same size of selected objects on the WS, and much more
A complete list of new features can be found in the release notes.
Visit the Toad Data Modeler community for more information on these new features. You can also view the functionality in action here.
Supported Platforms
| Oracle | Basic support for Oracle 9 Support for Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g | | MS SQL Server | Basic support for MS SQL Server 2000 Support for MS SQL Server 2005 and 2008 | | MySQL | Basic support for MySQL Support for MySQL v5.0 and v5.1 | | PostgreSQL | Basic support for PostgreSQL Support for PostgreSQL v8.1, v8.2, v8.3 and v8.4 | | Sybase ASE | Basic support for Sybase ASE Support for Sybase ASE v12.5 and v15 | | DB2 (LUW) | Basic support for DB2 (LUW) Support for DB2 v8, v9, v9.5 and v9.7 (LUW) | | MS Access | Basic support for MS Access Support for MS Access 2000/2002/2003 |
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