SQuirreL SQL Client Change Log

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Not yet released, available in our GIT repository and in future snapshots and re
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Enhancements:
#469 Show selected row count (like result row count)
#490 Continue offering MS Exel XLS (older file format) export.
Users can now choose between XLSX and XLS.
Bug fixes:
#1144 Error exporting null valued boolean/bit cols to XLS/XLSX
#1143 Error exporting null valued date cols to XLS/XLSX
Reintroduced compatibility with Java 1.6
#1137 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when querying PostGIS geometry columns
Thanks to Jaroslaw Jarmolowicz for the patch
#1129 Export table to XLSX does not work / #1129 Export table to XLSX does not w
ork --> Export broke on null values
#1135 Export of date/time values to XLSX exports number instead of date
#1132 keyboard shortcut alt-down/alt-up not working
Hibernate Plugin: HQL queries that returned results with enum types used to lead
to unmarshall exceptions.

3.5.2 (03/15/2014)
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Note: Automatic updates were disabled. Please use our home page to download late
st versions and snapshots.
Enhancements:
- SQLFilter tab can support custom operators and functions depending on column t
ype
- Improved loading of content tab for tables with big data
- Added support for postgres UUID-s
- Added support for postgres arrays
- Added support for postgis Geometry (requires postgis.jar added to driver class
path).
Geometries are presented and edited as WKT. WKT is more human readable and all
ows quick editing.
Content tab displays summary (containing only: type, center point, and total n
umber of vertexes)
that is lazy loaded and substituted, with full content, when given cell is cli

cked.
Thanks to Jaroslaw Jarmolowicz for the patches
Allowed command line arguments to be defined by Plugins. See Method IPlugin.getP
luginApplicationArguments().
Thanks to David Green for the patch
Bug fixes:
#1130 Unable to save SQLReadOn properties

3.5.1 (02/01/2014)
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Enhancements:
File export: Replaced the old xls export by the newer xlsx export which allows f
ar mor rows to export.
Thanks to Andr Schild for the patch.
This also fixes bug #625
#1108 (in bugs): New entry in table's right mouse menu: Copy column names
Upgraded to the latest RSyntax version (2.5.0 / 3).
Added MongoDB driver to default driver list.
New Plugin: Vertica DB Plugin
New Plugin for the Vertica DB. Thanks to Vertica team.
Added Vertica driver to default driver list.
Fixed bug in windows start script squirrel-sql.bat: javaw.exe could not be found
in certain cases.
Fixed bug in Oracle dialect concerning type information for timestamps.
#1084 Added MariaDB driver to default driver list.
Made data editing problems that concern update row counts more transparent by pr
inting
out details to SQuirreL's message panel. This may help to fix bugs like #1086.
Bug fixes:
SQL editors keyboard short cut to comment block (Ctrl-) didn't work.
#1064 DataSetViewerTextPanel cannot be cast to DataSetViewerTablePanel
Fixed NullPointer during shutdown:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: obj parameter must not be null
at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.recentfiles.RecentFilesManager.sa
veXmlBean(RecentFilesManager.java:84)

at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.Application._saveApplicationState(App
lication.java:302)
at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.Application.shutdown(Application.java
:240)
at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.mainframe.MainFrame.dispose(MainF
rame.java:141)
at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.mainframe.MainFrame$4.windowClosi
ng(MainFrame.java:386)
at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractMarshallerImpl.checkNotNull(Unknown Source
)
at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractMarshallerImpl.marshal(Unknown Source)
at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.recentfiles.RecentFilesManager.sa
veXmlBean(RecentFilesManager.java:77)
3.5.0 (5/5/2013)
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Enhancements:
Updated Italian translations. Thanks to Ivo Neri.
Updated French translations. Thanks to Erwan Duroselle.
SQL script save/open dialog remembers the last selected file name extension.
DBCopy-Plugin: Added table name suggestion to "Paste table as ..."
dialog when a table is selected in the destination Object tree.
Update Tab (in Global Preferences): Added hint/link to Proxy configuration.
Added support for the JTattoo suite of Look-and-Feel classes to the Look-and-Fee
l plugin. Thanks to Michael
Hagen (JTattoo author) for integration tips.
New function to open recent and/or favourite sql script files in the SQL editor.
Available in the SQL editor's and the Aliase's toolbar.
Look for the icon showing a folder with a watch .
Patch #57 Additional features for dataimport plugin.
New checkbox in data import dialog that allows to input rows with over 100.000
characters.
Thanks to Phillip (P_W999) for the patch
Logging of application shutdown:
Sometimes closing SQuirreL can take some time. From looking at the log file
one can find out which shutdown actions take long:
Choose log level: info
Search the log file for: "Application.shutdown"
The first Global preferences tab tells where log and log configuration files a
re.
Introduced keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Enter to rerun SQL results.
Thanks to Johnathan James for re-working and drawing attention to the patch ho
sted at
http://muzso.hu/2011/06/04/patch-for-squirrel-sql-client-v3.2.1-adds-keyboardshortcut-for-sql-query-rerun-re-execut
See also bug #1057.

1609223: New option to enable SQL result tables to read more query results when
the user scrolls to the end of the table.
This option can be switched on in Session Properties and on top of the SQL-Edi
tor just at the place where the
"Limit rows" check box is.
2569169: Find function for SQL result tables.
Closing or reconnecting Sessions caused SQuirreL to hang when the JDBC driver's
connection close method didn't return.
Now closing timeouts after 2 seconds.
Function to detach/close a file while keeping its contents in the SQL editor. Ac
cessible through Toolbar and tools pop up.
Hibernate Plugin:
New function in tools pop up and right mouse menu of HQL editor: Copy SQL gen
erated from current HQL to clipboard.
Sorting can now be returned to natural order by clicking on a column header a th
ird time. (First time is asc, second time desc and third time natural)
Execution time passed is shown during SQL execution.
Session tabs can be detached in separate windows. The tabs can be arbitrarily mo
ved between the main and separated windows using drag and drop.
Cristiano Guadagnino contributed all of the SQL required for the DB2Plugin to pr
operly support the DB2 z/OS
platform. Many thanks to Cristiano Guadagnino.
Overview tab:
- Allows to adjust the maximum number of intervals
- Traces drill downs by coloring clicked buttons
- Offers functionality to view query result data in bar charts. (Uses JFreeChar
t: http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/)
- Has a button to copy a HTML-report of an overview to clipboard
Abbreviation/Auto-correction now works also if it is placed right after an openi
ng bracket.
Added new default driver definition for Starschema BigQuery JDBC Driver.
Updated French translations. Thanks to Erwan Duroselle.
Positions of SQL result tabs and of Session tabs can now be changed using drag a
nd drop.

Bug fixes:
#1076, 1061 Squirrel does not list tables when connected to DB2
Thanks to Gabor Keresztfalvi for the patch.
#1077 EDT Violation reported in log while copying tables
For detached Session windows drag and drop to query builder did not work

because the query builder became hidden behind the Session window.
#1073 db2 plugin - extended error code message. Thanks to Marcin Krol for the pa
tch.
#939 DBCopy-Plugin: Copy to HSQLDB 2.0 failed because column lengths where not d
efined in create table statements for various column types.
This problem existed for other RDBMSes too.
#464 (Feature request) Add tho double quotes to Copy as HTML to become XML well
formed output.
Global Preference: "Select Object tree Nodes On Right Mouse Click" didn't work o
n windows.
Thanks to Betsy Baxter
#1009 FileNotFoundException when trying to save write protected file. (Thanks to
Johnathan James for the patch.)
#1060 When more result tabs than the maximum defined in Session properties are
in execution, SQuirreL freezes.
Fixed bug in logging: Log level could not be set in log4j.properties file.
2759952 (Update fails unless run as admin on Vista): Fixed mis-spelled variable
in squirrel-sql.bat which
caused the application updater to fail to work properly with Windows when UAC is
enabled. Thanks to user
dandar3 for the tip.
Tables cells that contained html where rendered incorrect. Now the plain html st
ring is shown.
When schema info was refreshed (using F5) the SQL editor used to color tables as
undefined (error red).
Column sorting indicator icon was lost when sorted column headers where dragged
to reorder columns
2798081 Right click on column header changes sort order
On DB2 for AS400 column completion didn't work in some cases. (Thanks to Stefan
Hohenstein for the patch.)
3575054: SQL results text mode is not working
Fixed repaint problem in Hibernate Plugin.
Code completion: When selecting a completion by tab, overwriting of subsequent c
haracters does not stop
only at the next white space but also at .,'();"= characters.
3.4.0 (8/6/2012)
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Enhancements:
Hibernate Plugin:

Improved connection error messaging when creation of a Hibernate SessionFacto

ryImpl in an external process fails.
Removed misleading button "Remember widths" from Overview Tab
Instead of displaying the file paths in Session tabs a small button is displayed
when an open file exists.
Clicking the button will open a popup menu that gives access to several inform
ation and functions concerning the file.
3488629: SQL formatting can be configured. See menu File--> Global Preferences -> Tab SQL formatting
Installer: The DB Copy, DB Diff and Refactoring Plugin have been made standard P
lugins.
Graph Plugin: Tables can be selected by rectangle selection like icons on a desk
top of modern operating systems.
SQL Execution: The execution panel that is displayed while an SQL statement is b
eing processed is now closeable.
Before the panel is closed the cancel action gets executed.
Created new Multisource Plugin:
- Allows SQuirreL to support native multiple source queries where one SQL quer
y spans multiple sources.
- The plugin supports standard SQL including joins, group by, aggregation, LIM
IT, and ordering where tables may come from one or more sources.
- The plugin will perform function translation where a user requests a functio
n that is not supported on a certain source.
- Added a new UnityJDBC default driver definition that supports this virtualiz
ation.
Graph Plugin: When a child table was removed from a Graph and the the parent tab
les columns were reordered constraint lines reappeared pointing nowhere.
Syntax Plugin: Upgraded to RSyntax text area version 1.5.2
Add new default driver definitions for HXTT Cobol and XML drivers.
About Dialog:
Added a tab for displaying the status off all threads.
3463374: Ability to rename SQL Worksheet tabs through Session menu, tab's right
mouse menu or shortcut shift F6. (Thanks to Vladislav Vavra for the patch.)
Hibernate Plugin:
- Support of hql results that return plain values instead of mapped objects. Mi
xes of plain values mapped objects are supported, too.
- Support of data changing hql statements.
- Support for JDBC standard date/time/timestamp escape strings in hql queries.
(String are parsed and converted to hql parameters).
DBCopy Plugin:
- Offers a new menu item "Paste table as ..." that allows to change the pasted
table's name.
This function works if only a single table was copied.
- Tables can now be pasted to arbitrary Schemas.
- In the Plugin preferences the user may choose to append copied data to exist

ing tables
Copy as INSERT-VALUES statement now works on almost any table not just on editab
le tables. If a table isn't in
a Session scope ";" is used as statement separator instead of the separator de
fined in Session properties.
Swing Violation Detector Plugin:
This new plugin will help to detect rule violations of the Swing programming m
odel. The usage of this plugin is only recommonend for
testers and developers.
Code Completion Plugin:
The Code Completion Plugin's preferences allows to switch on CamelCase complet
ion
which is a common feature in many modern IDEs.
CamelCase completion may be useful if a RDBMS supports capital and small lette
rs in database object names.
Hibernate Plugin:
- Redesign of HQL result display. Focus is now on displaying result objects in
stead of Hibernate generated SQL.
- User can choose if he wants to use the Session's JDBC connection or the one
configured with Hibernate.
Syntax Plugin:
Duplicate line (ctrl+d) now duplicates the line at cursor if no text is select
ed
and duplicates the selection if a selection exists.
Hibernate Plugin:
On Windows the class path's files defined in the Hibernate configuration would
remain locked even
after disconnecting Hibernate. This doesn't happen anymore when Hibernate is r
un in its own process.
Graph Plugin:
Tables can be added to a Graph from within the SQL-Editor (accessible from rig
ht mouse menu and tools popup).
Graph Plugin:
Graphs can be copied and pasted.
Graph Plugin:
New Session toolbar button to create links to Graphs of other JDBC-URLs or to
Graphs that are placed arbitrary directories.
With this feature it is possible to work with shared repositories of Graphs.
Bug fixes:
Fixed layout problem in code completion preference panel.
Applied patch 3100757: squirrel-sql.bat broke if %TEMP% had white space. Thanks
to Taneli Waltari for the patch.
Hibernate Plugin: Added missing HQL keyword 'by'. Will now be highlighted and av
ailable in HQL code completion.

Graph Plugin --> Query Builder:

When a table was removed from a query builder graph join types of remaining jo
ins were reset to the default inner join type.
Referesh (F5) didn't work right and didn't delete schema cache files when schema
caching was used.
Fixed memory leak: Sessions didn't get garbage collected as soon as a popup (cod
e completion, bookmarks, tools popup) was used.
Connection/Login timeouts (menu File --> Global Preferences --> Tab SQL) as well
as canceling the "Connect to" dialog now works cleanly.
When a Session tab is closed that is not the active tab
the Session menu used to be disabled and keyboard shortcuts didn't work anymore
for the active Session.
Graph Plugin: Query Builder: Mixed up ASC and DESC in SQL generation and "order
by" panel
Hibernate Plugin: Fixed NullPointer that occurred in HQL execution concerning as
sisted but nonetheless initialized objects.
2947296 Table script creation for multiple tables fails (on OpenJDK)
Graph Plugin: Opening Link dialog failed on Windows when one or more links alrea
dy existed.
SQL Editor: Parser mistook minus signs in SQL IN lists as errors.
Error dialog showed up twice when an error occurred during Alias connect.
3026995 Fixed problem in squirrel-sql.bat for 64-bit windows.
Graph Plugin --> Query Builder:
The "Sync result" button of the "Result" view now refreshes the result even if
the SQL statement was not changed.
3.3.0 (11/20/2011)
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Enhancements:
Hibernate Plugin:
Directories containing archive files (Jars, Zips) can now be added to a Hibern
ate configuration's classpath.
All files in the directory will be added as classpath entries.
Hibernate Plugin:
HQL errors during results reading are now displayed as a result tab. (Similar
to the new SQL error display.)
Some performance improvements, when searching in the object tree.
Now, Squirrel will not try to expand a node twice, if no children were f
ound for a node at a previous search.
Updated Translations:
* French (Erwan Duroselle)

The make editable function for SQL result tables now preserves the table's layou
t (ordering, scrolling position, ... ).
New (prettier acorn) icons bundle for MacOS X (Thanks to Travis Hein for arrangi
ng the icon bundle and to the
original photograher - George Georgiades - for releasing the photo under the cre
ative commons license.)
New default SQL driver for LucidDB (Thanks to Brandon Jackson)
To use the new default driver, it must be imported (Menu Drivers => Inst
all default driver definitions)
Improved memory management: Now when SQuirreL runs out of memory, it will attemp
t to close all result tabs,
in order to free some memory. This may allow the user to save their preferences
/scripts and restart SQuirreL.
SQL Scripts Plugin: Added the capability to "store the execution result of an SQ
L query into file". This
allows the user to store the result of the selected SQL directly into a file,
instead of displaying it in
a result table. This is avaiable in the tools pop-up (sql2file) and the menu
(Session ==> Scripts ==> Store result of SQL in file).
DBCopy Plugin: (Feature request #3291501) This plugin now has a command-line int
erface (via DBCopyCLI). See
DBCopy plugin documentation for usage details.
Syntax Plugin:
Ostermiller and Netbeans editors were removed. Users that still used these edi
tors are automatically
switched to the RSyntax editor.
MSSQL Plugin:
- Added display of triggers source code.
- If two views with same name in different schemas exist now the views' source
code is
displayed correctly according to the selected Object tree node.
Thanks to damluar for the patch (Patch ID: 3310900)
New Plugin: Greenplum DB Plugin
New Plugin for the Greenplum DB. Thanks to Adam Winn for the patch (Patch ID 3
217167)
Feature Request 3438689: (Process SQL Server's NVARCHAR fields).
Added dialect mapping support for N* fields in SQL create scripts.
Feature Request 1744964: Copy text from the SQL editor panel as
This functionality is available via the pop-up menu and
. Additionally this mode can be
activated for copy shortcuts.
See: Session Properties => Syntax => Copy shortcuts use
ormat"
To use this, the RSyntax editor (Syntax Plugin) must be

rich text.
the tools pop-up
the "Rich Text F
activated.

Source Tabs:
Syntax highlighting is used for displaying the source of database object
s, if the syntax plugin is installed.

Query Builder / New features in Graph plugin:

The Query Builder is part of the Graph plugin. That means besides the former
default and Zoom/Print modes
Query Builder is a new mode of the Graph Plugin. Any existing Graph can be sw
itched to the new mode.
Besides the Query Builder itself several new features have been added to the
Graph plugin:
- A Graph can be viewed in separate window.
- Tables can be dragged from the Object tree to a Graph window. For convenien
ce there is a
new Session tool bar button that creates a new Graph window and places it r
ight besides the Session's
Object tree.
- Graphs have a Kick off/Start button on the lower left of a Graph panel to g
ive more intuitive access to
Graph functions.
Feature Request 3307812: Select an entire row via the table's pop-up menu.
Oracle Plugin:
- The DDL of a index could be displayed under the source tab.
- Display the table related indexes in the object tree under the table node.
This is additional to the
generally index node, which displays all indexes of the schema.
New plugin "WIKI table configurations":
This plugin provides some predefined configurations for various WIKI engines.
With these configurations,
SQuirreL can transform the selection of a result table into a WIKI table. Curr
ently, configurations for the
following WIKI's are provided:
- Mediawiki
- TiddlyWiki
This plugin is a enhancement for the functionality "Copy as WIKI table"
Copy as WIKI table:
Squirrel is now able, to copy the selection of a result table as WIKI text int
o the clipboard.
(Right click on the result table => Copy as WIKI table)
At the new preferences panel "Global Preferences => Wiki Tables", the user can
configure individual
templates for the WIKI syntax.
Detached result windows now can be rerun.
Feature Request 3185630: SQL Panel layout:
- Squirrel uses a vertical layout for the SQL Panel. Now, this layout can be ch
anged to horizontal,
which might be useful on wide screen displays. This can be configured within
the
Session Properties and New Session Properties => Tab General => Combo Box: SQ
L Panel layout
- A double click on the divider restores the divider position to the default va
lue.
Editing numeric values: SQuirreL now has consistent behavior for signed values i
n all numeric data types.
A minus sign is allowed only at the first position and if the data type allows
signed values.

Hibernate Plugin: Improved display of mapped objects in table cells:

The class name, primary key and toString() are displayed inste
ad of toString() only.
DB-Diff-Plugin:
Allowed to compare tables within one Session the same way as with different Se
ssions using select and
compare of the Object tree's right mouse menu. It is still possible to compare
tables inside the
same Session without using select by marking two tables and just using the com
pare.
Feature request 3129413: The number of decimal digits are now configurable
(See Global Preferences --> 'Data Type Controls')
Feature requests 3001253, 2896494: New icons in Object tree
Display errors in result tab (Feature request 2826179):
SQL execution errors are now additionally displayed in a temporary result tab.
- This new feature is enabled by default and can be disabled by navigating
to File --> New Session Properties --> Tab SQL --> Show SQL execution er
rors in result tab.
- Along with this feature comes a new Message Panel right mouse menu "Save siz
e 0" that allows
to hide the Message panel at application start up.
Bug-fixes:
Graph Plugin / Query Builder: Fixed adding Quotes behavior for IN/NOT IN where c
lause expressions.
3433001: Elapsed time for building output is incorrect.
3183001: ClassCastException occurs, when the first tab should be closed after ru
nning a query.
Hibernate Plugin:
Fixed several bugs in the HQL results reading function concerning lazy loaded n
on collection attributes.
3408086: Non ASCII characters are highlighted as as invalid characters at the SQ
L-Editor pane.
SQLScripts plugin:
Generating data/insert scripts from inside the Object tree failed for tables t
hat didn't belong to the
default schema when the Plugins preferences where chosen not to qualify table
names.
Patch #3401315 (Derby Object tree trigger). Trigger source was not being displa
yed because the
SYS.SYSTRIGGERS.REFERENCINGOLD and SYS.SYSTRIGGERS.REFERENCINGNEW columns no lon
ger accept 1 and 0 as values
for comparison. Now an actual boolean data type is used. (Thanks to Jesus Marin
for the patch)
3139446 fixed squirrelsql.bat: % was missing at the end of line set IZPACK_JAVA=
%JAVA_HOME

3308469, 3209074, 2983094: SQL with aliases don't result always with aliases as
column headings
Affected modules:
- Export as CSV/XLS/XML
- Copy with headers
- Copy as HTML
Fixed some memory issues with closed sessions.
3393589: Introduced performance warning for the global preference " Save Prefere
nces Immediately" when
multiple statements are executed and set the property's default value to false.
2985845: Create table script generates incorrect foreign key stmt: Foreign key c
olumns were used as primary key columns.
If the global setting "General => Save preferences immediately" is enabled, the
SQLHistory will be saved immediately after the execution of a statement.
The column numbers of the header columns are now correct, when exporting the res
ult table as XML.
When displaying the content of a table, the dialog "Please wait while the query
is executed" may not dispose.
This may occurs only for tables of a "In Memory Database" with only a few rows
of data.
When editing table cells in a text area, the input field for the file name will
be shown in an appropriate size
instead of being very small. If the user change the size of the dialog, the in
put field for the file name will use the extra space.
Now, "Press to open logs" shows the current log file by default instead of a ra
ndom one.
SQL Scripts Plugin: Increased multi table script configuration dialog's size.
Fixed NullPointerException in Hibernate Plugin when executing HQL with 'view obj
ects' switched on.
Hibernate Plugin: Made HQL code completion work more exact.
Hibernate Plugin: Removed unused imports to regain compile independence from Hib
ernate API changes, see patch ID 3168381
3309565: Not possible to translate SQL connection error messages, because they a
re hard coded.
3303174: Installer hangs on linux. Updated version of IzPack compiler to 4.3.4.
3293737: A exception occurs if the value of a SMALLINT column is edited in a res
ult table.
3238037: It's impossible to create a foreign key in oracle 10g, if some tables c
ontains a / in their name eg. recycle bins
3222350: Cannot enter negative values for numeric fields when editing the result
table.

3196153: When typing using shift, you must release shift to type space
3175871: On export to Excel, some numeric values are not exported correctly.
3172465: Error connecting to DB after 3.2.1 upgrade
3171762: Wrong syntax for DROP KEY (When qualify table name preference is select
ed this produced two schema
or catalog prefixes on the table name)
3148653: Missing App Icon on Mac OS X (Fix is available in the Mac OS X 3.2.1 in
staller file)
3137852: DB2 Plugin - The source code is not visible, if a char column contains
a default value.
3088572: Squirrel fails when user tries to edit DB fields which have particular
characters.
3.2.1 (12/29/2010)
==================
Enhancements:
Feature request 3030479: New global preference that allows scrollable tabbed pan
e for Session tabs.
Feature request 1608435: (checkbox in I18N administration: "show only bundles wi
th missing translations").
Thanks to Ivo Neri for the patch.
Updated translation for Italian (Thanks to Ivo Neri)
New translation
Japanese (Thanks to Toshiki IGA)
Graph Plugin: Multiple tables can now be selected and moved simultanously
Thanks to Markus Schulz for the patch.
New Session property to let SQuirreL set fetch size (call Statement.setFetchSize
(int)).
See Session properties --> SQL tab.
Thanks to Stefan (wis775) for the patch.
Bug-fixes:
3138746:
3137390:
3136386:
3123014:

Typo within PluginClassName of SyntaxPlugin.

Cannot connect after latest software update.
Deleting table content via context menu does not work.
StackOverflow ProgressCallBackDialog.
Thanks to Stefan (wis775) for the patch.
3055859: Regular expressions did not work in find & replace dialog.
Thanks to Stefan (wis775) for the patch.
Fixed translation label that was not being applied to "Initialize Session Timezo
ne" checkbox.
Thanks to Ivo Neri for the patch.

3.2.0 (11/21/2010)
==================
Enhancements:
Updated Translations:
- Chinese (Thanks to xpdz)
- French (Thanks to Erwan DUROSELLE)
SQL Scripts Plugin:
New preference that allows to choose the escape string for new lines. See Glob
al Preferences --> Tab SQL Scripts
(See patch #3079664 by Paul Wagland)
Hibernate Plugin:
- New handling of limiting object count for HQL queries. This may prevent seve
re performance problems.
Formerly the limit was set more or less under the hood (SQL limit was used).
Setting the limit can cause the performance problems.
- Hibernate session can now be started in an external process.
This can keep SQuirreL from running into memory problems when working with t
he Hibernate Plugin.
See Hibernate configuration panel for details.
Introduced a new general data type property 'Use column labels instead of column
names in result headers'.
See Global Preferences --> Tab 'Data Type Controls'. Will be useful e.g. for MyS
QL if Aliases are used in Select clauses.
Session Property: "Keep SQL result table layout on rerun SQL"
If this option is checked the layout of the table of a SQL result is tried to be
restored after rerunning the SQL.
Note: You rerun an SQL statement when you click the running man button on the up
per left of a SQL result.
New way to view query results: There is a new tab inside a query result named "O
verview".
It might need some trying out to understand what it does.
Incorporated patch which provides a node in the object tree called LOB which lis
ts all LOBs, providing
details about each (Thanks to Bogdan Cristian Paulon)
Incorporated patch which provides a node under each table in the object tree tha
t lists all of the
constraints for that table. (Thanks to Bogdan Cristian Paulon)
Netezza Plugin: Added support for displaying external tables in the object tree.
SQuirreL SQL Client is now built, tested and released with Maven.
Bug-fixes:
2693968: The "Load columns in background" setting (session properties -> SQL tab
) is lost through restarts.
3085119: NullPointerException when adding tables to graph.
3088284: CSV export doesn't escape quotes. Thanks to wolfgang22 for the patch.
3086444: Date/Time/Timestamp types did not display right after application resta

rt when others than standard

formats were chosen in Global Prefs. (See patch 3087989)
2998121: (Update doesn't work, settings seem correct). Now, if the local releas
e.xml file
is not found the error dialog states as the cause, rather than merely s
aying the release.xml file
couldn't be downloaded.
2991971: RSyntax text editor ignores font settings
2992443: Cannot use RSyntax or Netbeans editors
2973045: Export to excel results in strange rounding; Thanks to Bogdan Cristian
Paulon for the patch
1808038: Splash screen was always on top hiding all other windows behind it
Popup-Menu for adding or removing driver specific properties didn't appear in dr
iver properties
tab of alias properties on Win XP. (See patch 3083166)
Double click in Alias tree always opened the selected Alias even if the mouse po
inter wasn't placed on the Alias.
This way Aliases where opened when tree nodes where quickly closed or opened.
RSyntax editor: Replace dialog: Replace button now does a find next after replac
ing.
Fixed problem with sorting after dragging columns
Button sizes differed in Alias and Driver docking frame
Hibernate plugin: Icon buttons for connecting and opening configuration could be
very small.
Firebird Manger Plugin: Removed dialog (that pointed out missing Firebird driver
) from startup routines.
Fixed Alias Properties not showing when drivers getPropertyInfo() fails. Behavio
r has been seen with Oracle driver.
RSyntax: Turned off drag and drop inside the editor. It conflicted with our
drag and drop feature for files and caused editor texts to vanish. See bug #3006
515.
RSyntax: When code reformatting was used on Windows, carriage return chars (\r)
where inserted in the editor.
These chars made keyboard arrow keys fail: If you stepped over an \r the key hit
did nothing.
Parser could be triggered far to often which resulted in high CPU and memory loa
d.
This problem was caused by redundant carriage return chars (\r).
Any redundant carriage return chars (\r) are removed from files.
On Win Platforms carriage return line feeds (\r\n) are kept for new lines.
3.1.1 (4/24/2010)
================
Enhancements:
Code completion Plugin:
- Users may choose to see column remarks in completion lists.

See Menu File --> New Session Properties --> Code Completion --> Checkbox an
bottom of panel
Hibernate Plugin:
- Results of HQL Queries can be displayed as objects
- Hibernate logs can be seen in SQuirreL logs when Hibernate logging is config
ured for console output.
Bug-Fixes:
2991709: Quotes missing in squirrel-sql.bat
2990527: nChar() is unknown field
2982594 / 2988387: RSyntax editor crash
When database errors occured while loading table columns, SQuirreL slowed down a
nd produced a lot of log messages.
2981691 / 2981694: squirrel-sql.bat fails on Windows 7 64 bit
2980873: squirrel-sql.bat doesn't work out of box
2978540: Identifiers starting with '_' where not handled as identifiers by the R
Syntax lexer. This resulted in syntax coloring and completion problems.
2974533: Informix: Method can be called only once. / ErrorCode: -79
2965617: Fail to open session with RSyntax editor
2963371: Splash on 3.1 - copyright (was not updated for 2010)

3.1 (3/3/2010)
================
Enhancements:
Updated Translations:
- Korean (Thanks to Youngwoo Kim)
- Chinese (Thanks to xpdz)
- French (Thanks to Erwan DUROSELLE)
Improved display of SQL result metadata
Hibernate Plugin:
The Classpath configuration now allows to move entries up or down.
New plugin for Netezza NPS database server. This plugin allows for viewing sour
ce and details of Views,
Stored Procedures, and synonyms. It also provides the ability to execute stored
procedures in the SQL Editor.
See Help for screenshots and more details.
Aliases now have the ability to setup a keep-alive SQL statement and sleep time
(in seconds) to prevent a
connection from being disconnected while appearing to be idle. This is done usi
ng the new Connection tab
on the Alias properties dialog.
Derby Plugin:
New tab to display the source code of Derby stored procedures
Thanks to Glenn (bassnfool2) for the patch (Patch ID 2907220)
XML Export:
Tables in SQuirreL's GUI now allow to export data as XML (besides CSV and MS-Ex
cel export)

Thanks to mironsadziak for the patch (Patch ID 2905595)

New editor component: RSyntaxTextArea by fifesoft.com.
New features:
- No long line problems
- Enhanced search functions:
shift F3: Find selected.
F3: Repeat last find.
control shift F3: Mark selected.
escape: Unmark all.
- Line numbers can be displayed
- Current line can be highlighted
Note: On MS-Windows systems the Java-VM parameter -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true mu
st be set in your SQUirreL
start batch to prevent performance problems.
- New Polish translation available (Thanks to Miron Sadziak)
Better table header rendering for MAC OS
Thanks for Brian Mauter's Patch (ID 2856103)
Feature request 2826175:
Number of rows read is now visible on message panel and results tab.
Feature request 1656320:
Background Color Configuration is now available via a new tab ("Color Properti
es") in Alias
Properties dialog.
MySQL Plugin
Fixed object tree menu items:
* Create database (on root node)
* Drop database (on catalog nodes)
* Rename (on table nodes)
SQL Scripts Plugin:
New checkbox 'Use double quotes (") for qualifying' in global scripting prefere
nces.
Feature Request #2818444: Oracle: Connecting as SYS not possible - now it is po
ssible to add the necessary
driver property to connect as SYS, or any other account that needs to connect as
SYSDBA.
Look & Feel Plugin
- Better support for Nimbus: No horizontal scrollbars on pop up lists (e.g. cod
e completion)
- Removed choices for Metouia and OYOAHA as these are not supported for use in
Java 6.
Oracle Plugin
- SQL*Loader control file generation.
Adds a new right mouse menu item to tables in the object tree: "Generate SQL*
Loader control file"
Thanks to Jos David Moreno Jurez for the patch (Patch ID 2776344)
About dialog now has a clickable link to our home page.
- Thanks to Hashim Kubba for this patch (ID 2104309)

Graph Plugin:
- Show constraint name can be selected on each constraint separately. See right
mouse menu on constraint
line.
- Allowed constraints to be created using drag and drop.
To create such a non-DB constraint using drag and drop hold
down the control key. Then right click the constraint to configure it.
Bug-Fixes:
SQuirreL was seen consuming a lot of memory and CPU.
For details about the fix see comments in class ExitParserThreadRequestExceptio
n
See: http://squirrel-sql.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrel-sql/sql12/app/src/
net/sourceforge/squirrel_sql/client/session/parser/kernel/ExitParserThreadReques
tException.java?view=log
Loading and saving files on Windows produced multiple CR (carriage return) chars
in files.
When copy and paste was used on such files multiple empty lines were created.
Note: The Windows standard editor Notepad shows multiple CR chars where they exi
st and allows to remove them.
SQuirreL does not remove them automatically at any place.
Moved focus to SQL Editor when it gets visible through previous Session / next S
ession navigation (Alt left/right)
Fixed class not found exception in Oracle Plugin when setting Session Time Zone.
Thanks to Neville Rowe
2946165:
2946160:
2944128:
2942351:
2927576:
2913463:
2908407:
2891190:
2879711:

preferences messages not translatable

translation missing in refactoring
remote not translatable
Program doesn't launch
NPE at Copy as SQL INSERT-VALUES
Problems with system classpath with quotes
MSSQL driver plugin example URL isn't correct
block comment content produces error
Fix for Excel date export concerning dates earlier than 1900-03-01.
Thanks to mironsadziak for the patch (Patch ID 2905218)
2853329: Ctrl-S overwrites existing file on 2nd try
2819161: squirrel-sql.sh in plain zip had an errant apostrophe. Tested this fi
x on MacOS 10 and Ubuntu 9.04.
Thanks to Jonathan James for vetting the anonymously submitted patch.
2818117 ("Make Editable" uses column label instead of name)
Thanks to Christian Gruenberg for the patch (Patch ID 2924887)
2801011: Sybase (CREATE TABLE script generate decimal(15,2) instead of (15,4))
2794860: Sybase (CREATE TABLE script generate numeric(15) instead (15,2))
2754166: SQLScript plugin loses precision for Timestamp in H2
2746982: Error occured in IPlugin.sessionEnded() for SQL Parametrisation
2713952: Create table script (on Sybase): Always generate "datetime" type for "d
ate" (and datetime)
2657987: Session was closed even if session closing confirm dialog was not confi
rmed. Connection was not
closed then.
ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception occured when more than one Alias was deleted for
m Alias tree

Fixed startup error:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at ... .AliasFolderState.applyExpansionAndSelectionToNode(AliasFolderState.java
:144)
Error in Alias tree: Alias vanished or gave an error when dragged on itself.
SQL Scripts Plugin:
- Several scripting functions did not respect global scripting preferences abou
t qualifying tables.
- When generating insert scripts from a SQL statement the global
preference "Qualify table names in generated scripts with the schema name" di
d not work.
Thanks to Johann Geyer for the patch (Patch ID 2365193)
- Generating data scripts may throw java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException w
hen timestamps where scripted
- Foreign key constraints with more than one column were not scripted correctly
. (Only first column was
included.)
Schema caching:
Removed problems with selective schema caching when the same table name
exisits in two different schemas. E.g. column completion didn't word anymore.
Stored Procedures that return a mix of update counts and results sets weren't di
splayed properly.
3.0.1 (3/23/2009)
================
Enhancements:
- New Korean translation available (Thanks to Youngwoo Kim)
Bug-Fixes:
2686268: OS X Look and Feel is Incorrect
2645286: Quotes missing in squirrel-sql.sh (Thanks to mdykierek for the patch)
2531193: Oracle create table script the "ON UPDATE" is wrong
2644778: "Contents Tab SQL filter" and "Limit cell edit WHERE clause size" dialo
gs didn't work
Other reported bug-fixes:
- Fixed UI freeze issue which sometimes occurred when using software update fea
ture.
- Better support for PointBase 5.7
- Fixed bug which caused NullPointerException in Refactoring when modifying col
umn types
- Fixed bug which occurred when generating FK SQL for DB2 where the update and
delete action clause result
in syntax error for certain standard constraint actions.
- Fixed the case of the install directory (java -> Java) to match the case of t
he directory created by the

installer.
- NullPointerException occured when last tab was closed
- Fixed several problems when Schemas where cached. For example, "Contents Tab
SQL filter" and
"Limit cell edit WHERE clause size" dialogs did not open.
- Fixed a problem where when certain windows were closed (for example, the Sess
ion Properties window) the
first tab was always selected
3.0 (2/21/2009)
==============
Enhancements:
Dataimport Plugin:
* SuggestColumns: if columns in database and in the first line of the file
are equal, they are matched for the import.
Sybase Plugin:
* New ExceptionFormatter for SQLWarnings: better viewing warnings while the pa
rameter
showplan is on (set showplan on)
Look an Feel Plugin:
* Made Nimbus look and feel available (needs at least JDK/JRE 1.6.0_10)
* Made Metal look and feel with Ocean theme the default (used at first start u
p).
* Added warning message that look and feels other than Metal may cause perfoma
nce and/or functional problems
Updated Italian translation (Ivo Neri), Chinese translation (xpdz), French trans
lation (Erwan Duroselle)
New user interface layout: Tabbed layout
Hibernate Plugin:
- Cleaned up details display in mapped objects tab: Now every tree node displ
ays an appropriate details table.
- Added hint to solve StackOverflowError caused by logging that may occur whe
n connecting to a Hibernate configuration.
Object tree search (Feature request 2004240):
Above the Object tree is a text field and a find button.
The search string has to be the exact simple (unqualified) name of an DB obje
ct or may contain placeholders ("%" or "_").
The text field supports code completion.
A filter button allows to apply the search string as Object tree filter.
Object tree filtering:
Multiple (comma separated) Object tree filters can be defined. Filter conditi
ons can be excluding oder including.
Better support for placeholders "%" and "_".
See "Session Properties"/"New Session Properties" dialogs --> Tab "Object Tre
e".
Graph Plugin:

- Qualified table names can now be displayed. Use the right mouse menu on graph
background.
Edit Extras Plugin:
- Improved handling and look of Escape date dialog.
Graph Plugin:
- New entries in table's popup menu: "Copy table name" and "Copy qualified tabl
e name".
- Columns of all tables in a graph can now be ordered at once. Use the right mo
use menu on graph background.
New Plugin: Smarttools by Michael Romankiewicz
- Searching for tables that do not have a primary key or unique index or index
.
- Searching for non nullable columns that contain null values. Some DBs e.g. F
irebird can be tricked to have this inconsistency.
- Changing values database wide according to specified criteria.
For more information see the Plugin's help.
New Plugin: Firebird Manager by Michael Romankiewicz
- Storing and restoring Firebird DBs
- Managing users and roles for the Firebird RDBMS
For more information see the Plugin's help.
- Aliases can be displayed as list or as tree.
- A new preference for choosing Locales is available in Global Preferences -> G
eneral tab. This allows you to
set your preferred locale, and if an optional translation is installed that c
orresponds with the preferred
locale, then restart and the changes take effect.(No longer necessary to hand
edit the start script)
- Copy as "SQL WHERE" / "UPDATE-SET" / "INSERT-VALUES" statement function in ta
bles
Tables offer right mouse menu to copy WHERE, UPDATE-SET or INSERT-VALUES clau
ses of selected data to clip board.
Works like the existing "Copy as SQL IN statement" function.
- New Plugin: SQLReplace by Dieter Engelhardt
This plugin replaces a set of variables before a statement is executed.
The variables to replace can be defined at the Plugin's Global Preferences ta
b.
- Added a preference option to allow the selection of items in lists to change
while activating
the popup menu on a single right-mouse button click. For example, without th
is, you need to
select an object in the tree with a left mouse button click, then press the r
ight mouse button
to activate the popup menu.(See Global Preferences -> General -> Select On Ri
ght Mouse Click)
Data Import Plugin: It now warns the user when importing data into an existing t
able, that it's current data
will be truncated first.
DBCopy Plugin:

- Added support for mapping the DISTINCT source column type for copying data fr
om PostgreSQL
DB2 Plugin: Lars Heller provided a patch to add support for XML column types in
SQuirreL via the
DB2 Plugin (tested against DB2 v9.5 LUW)
Oracle Plugin:
- Added validity (VALID|INVALID) field to trigger details tab for triggers.
- Allow the user to configure whether or not to show the syntax error offset in
the SQL Editor. This feature creates a user-defined function called
SQUIRREL_GET_ERROR_OFFSET, which can be disabled.
- Added ability to recognize "create package" and "create package body" stateme
nts.
PostgreSQL Plugin:
- Added support for PostgreSQL(8.3.x) new XML type.
Contributions from Daniel Regli and Yannick Winiger:
- Menu: added a new "PostgreSQL" menu to the object tree and the session menu f
or
PostgreSQL-specific functionalities.
- Vacuum: added visual (dialog) support for the PostgreSQL-specific VACUUM stat
ement for
garbage-collecting a selection of tables or the whole database.
- Explain: added an additional SQLResultExecuter to the sql panel that shows
the query plan of executed statements.
Refactoring Plugin:
- Fixed bug which caused column comment alter statement to be generated even wh
en no column column
change was made.
- Don't try to order the list of tables to be dropped (forcing FK info retrieva
l)
when there is only one table being dropped.
- Contributions from Daniel Regli and Yannick Winiger:
Added new Refactorings (All new refactoring dialogs can now be closed with th
e ESCAPE key):
- Rename Table
- Add/Rename/Drop View
- Add/Modify/Drop Sequence
- Add/Drop Index
- Add/Drop Foreign Key
- Add/Drop Unique Constraint
- Add Lookup Table
- Add Auto Increment
- Merge Column
- Merge Table
- Refactoring, scripting for Intersystems Cache DB:
Made Refactoring and scripting functions available for the Intersystems Cache
DB by activating its
Hibernate dialect.
Bug-Fixes:
SQL Replace Plugin: Fixed a bug that caused patterns such as $P{startDate} to th

row an exception.
Add/Edit Alias window did not resize properly
SQL Scripts Plugin: On some DBs (e.g. MySQL) "Store result of SQL in table"
did not work for SQLs that returned a lot of rows.
Graph Plugin: Table's right mouse menu "Add Parent tables" did add a parent more
than once when more than one foreign key to the parent existed.
Graph Plugin: Refresh didn't work for newly created constraints
Fixed several bugs which made it impossible to work with SQLite.
Fixed a bug which made it difficult to see text that was being edited in a table
.
2609090: Auto update fails if "empty" change list is validated
2480365: Plugin loading fails when installdir has spaces
2220792: SQLite: content not editable
2184379: (SQuirrel client 2.6.6 fills up 52 gigs of log file space). Added a ne
w log
appender that is based on file size rather than time.
2119937: Windows EOL chars (CRLF) are converted to Linux EOL (LF).
2104422: Fixed some potential bugs (Thanks to Hashim Kubba)
2102894: Missing Scale Placeholder in Sql server dialect. This causes script ge
neration and dbcopy
targeting MS-SQL server to produce decimal columns without the scale attribute (
that is, decimal(7) instead
of decimal(7,5))
2092902: Focus remains on hidden session window for Alt-Arrow. Removed code whi
ch was a
work-around for a bug in java 1.3, that has since been fixed and was actually pr
oducing a
bug seen in java5 and java6, where the Alt-RightArrow key shortcut switched sess
ion windows
into the foreground without giving them focus. Thanks goes to Johnathan James f
or the
bug-fix.
2091569: FAQ is missing its images
2049336: Make Editable disappear from SQL/results tab
2018512: DB2 timestamps still don't work when milliseconds are zero. Patch submi
tted by Daniel Strnger.
2018018: (Bug in FormatSql function) Formatter now uses platform-specific EOL ch
ar sequence.
2013346: export csv with option "carriage return + linefeed"

1995728: Unable to switch database

1958881: (Unable to see source of database views) Adjusted the query for view s
ource to use
underlying system tables instead of INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS, since this view ca
nnot handle views
that are greater than 4000 characters.
1968807: Unsigned INT problem with IMPORT FILE functionality
1968270: Displaying unsigned INT as signed INT in column
1845987: PostgreSQL interval types are not displayed
1840266: Create Table Script sets varchar columns to 8000
1830649: Focus Loss
1824534: Constraint created twice
1902611: (Oracle) Don't fail on SQL-Plus "SET ..." commands in SQL script; Now,
the Oracle plugin skips over
them.
1876352: (DB2) Incorrect TIMESTAMP in create data script (loss of precision - n
anosecond component - also
affected other databases.
1861402: (Informix catalog switching doesn't work correctly)
- Better catalog switching behavior for databases that support catalogs. Now i
f a connection is made
without specifying the catalog, a place-holder
catalog ("None") is inserted into the catalog drop-down menu and removed once
a catalog is selected.
- Fixed a race condition that caused the tree to be refreshed before data was r
efreshed from the database
when the catalog was switched.
- For Informix, setCatalog seems to have no effect, so now an explicit DATABASE
<catalog name> command is
issued.
1848924: Sybase object browser contents not displayed
1769599: fix for permission problem with Windows Vista. Now we create our tempo
rary path file in a temporary
location that the user should always be able to write to. Thanks to user aberde
en61 for contributing the
fix.
1596240: Fixed bug when displaying HSQLDB->Objects->Content, where contents are
not shown and exceptions are
thrown because tables are not being qualified with the schema name.
1541325: (Derby) Connection doesn't close when ending session - thanks goes to A
lex Pivovarov for the
patch that fixed the issue.
Bug-Fix for bug that caused Frontbase indexes not to be displayed in the indexes
tab, for tables in the

Object tree.
Fixed identifier qualification in Progress - tested on OpenEdge 10.1C. Now only
schema is pre-fixed to
identifiers, instead of catalog and schema.
Code Completion Plugin:
- Made column completion available for databases/JDBC drivers that support cata
logs and/or schemas
but don't provide catalog or schemas in their column meta data. For example s
ome versions of MySQL
show this behavior.
DBCopy Plugin:
- Only attempt to order the tables being copied if there is more than one table
in the copy set.
Changing to another window using Alt + left/right arrow did not properly set foc
us.
Hibernate Plugin:
- Class names in completion list could change from fully qualified to simple
while scrolling through the completion list.
- Fixed identifier qualification in Progress - tested on OpenEdge 10.1C.
Now only schema is pre-fixed to identifiers, instead of catalog and schema.
When a statement like "from Kv k where k." was completed the fields for k. wo
uld come from
any arbitrary mapped class which name started with Kv
Refactoring Plugin: When generating DROP TABLE statements, Frontbase requires
CASCADE or RESTRICT. Now we append CASCADE to the DROP TABLE statement.
1830649:
1820792:
1821354:
1820214:
1820020:
1815667:

Focus Loss
Sybase ASE - table not shown in object browser
Changing default value of a column in Derby does nothing
2.5.1 DB aliases do not transfer properly to 2.6.1
modified tables aren't sorted
Create Table Script does not include column defaults

Syntax Plugin: Fixed memory leak which caused sessions not to be garbage
collected.
Bug-fix for plugin unloading where unloading a session plugin did not prevent
it from binding to new sessions.
2.6.1 (10/24/2007)
==============
Bug-Fixes:
1818446: Packaging problem in v2.6 on MacOS X
1805954: Tables not in alpha order in Object view
2.6 (10/20/2007)
==============
Enhancements:
New Plugin (Hibernate)
- allows to generate SQL statements from Hibernate HQL statements

- shows object tree of mapped objects

- HQL Code completion and syntax highlighting
- Three ways to create a HibernateSessionFactory
* Native way using "new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();"
* JPA way using "Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("<persitence-unit n
ame>");"
* User defined way to by calling a user defined provider method.
See help for further details.
Improved speed at which large files are loaded into import popup for
CLOB/VARCHAR cells.
Added basic drag-n-drop to transfer a file from the desktop into an SQL Editor
panel.
New Plugin (SQL Parametrisation - Thorsten Mrell) allows you to put variables
into your SQL statements.
New Plugin (Data import - Thorsten Mrell) allows you to import arbitrary files
into the database.
DBCopy Plugin:
- Copy thread will wait for the dialog record progress bar to be updated
before continuing to copy records.
- Fixed bug which caused cursors to remain open in the source database after
the copy operation was complete.
DB2 Plugin:
- Added tab for displaying the source code for DB2 MQTs as well as DB2
tables.
- Added support for OS/400 (trigger source and details not yet implemented).
Special thanks goes to Tilmann Brenk for submitting OS/400 versions of all SQ
L
statements required to support the plugin features.
- Added support for showing user-defined functions in the object tree and the
source code that is associated with them if it is available.
- Exceptions from DB2 Universal JDBC driver are now interpreted as
DB2Diagnoseable exceptions so that the cause of the exception can be printed
(Thanks to Christoph Schmitz).
- When the source tab of a C-language stored procedure is selected, we now
show the user a nice informative message stating that the source code is
unavailable instead of merely displaying the word "null".
Code Completion Plugin:
When Ctrl+Space is hit while completion popup is already open the prefix up to
where all completion candidates match will be written to the SQL editor. The
completion popup will remain open.
Derby Plugin: New custom QueryTokenizer which allows Derby sessions to give the
command: run '<abs-path-to-script>'
This reads in the file and executes it's statements. This is
supported in Derby's own ij command-line interpreter.
Firebird Plugin: Added triggers node for each table to display triggers.
Informix Plugin:
- 1732161: Fixed Source code of procedures and triggers to work
with Informix version 7.3.1
- When executing an SQL statement with a syntax error, the driver is now asked

to provide the position of the error in the statement. If it is available,

the cursor is moved to the position of the incorrect syntax.
LAF Plugin: Added Substance 4.0 look and feel as an option.
MySQL Plugin:
- Added support for handling stored procedure create statements.
- Added source tab for Stored Procedures, Triggers and Views. Triggers are
displayed as object nodes beneath tables as is done in other plugins.
Oracle Plugin:
- 1446678 (SQL Error Help) Added capability to put the cursor at the position
in the SQL where the statement failed.
- 890843, 1787653: Added support Oracle's SYS.XMLTYPE column.
- Warning message is displayed if string literal timestamp setting is used for
internal where clauses - this setting may result in the inability to edit
tables.
- (Feature Request 1735530: Hide Oracle Bin$.....==$0 tables )
Added configuration for removing the Recycle Bin tables from the object
tree.
- Show the source for Oracle tables, as well as materialized views.
- Added additional query tokenization pass to find begin...end;/ type
anonymous procedures.
PostgreSQL Plugin:
- Added database locks display tab for PostgreSQL sessions. Click on the top
node in the object tree and look for a "Locks" tab. Code was adapted from Rocc
o
Rutte's tab of the same name and purpose in the EclipseSQL project.
Refactoring Plugin:
- Fixed problem where the comment of a column could not be altered if it was
null.
- Refactored drop tables command to not use the event dispatch
thread for calculating foreign keys(UI Responsiveness). Also, now FKs in child
tables are dropped before any parent tables are dropped when cascade
constraints is selected.
SQLScripts Plugin: Now uses types generated by Hibernate dialects for create
table script feature. Also, it now uses the session query tokenizer.
Sybase Plugin: Added new trigger and index nodes beneath tables in the tree.
Also, added trigger source tab for triggers.
Patch 1761706 (Miscellaneous Java 5 Generics) submitted by Bron Eubanks
Task 138098 (Plugins Session Menu Items (Disable)) When using a session that
is not supported by a db-specific plugin, that plugin should disable it's
Session menu items
Task 137959 (Refactor PreferencesManager) removed redundant plugin class
definitions related to Preferences which were very similar.
- Added unload button to plugin summary dialog which will cause the selected
plugin to be unloaded.
- Added support for setting whether or not plugins are loaded at startup
(without physically removing them), using the plugin summary dialog. You must

restart SQuirreL for plugin change to take effect.

- Added 'Use PK' button on the "Edit Where clause" dialog which will cause only
PK columns to be used for updating rows in the table contents panel.
- Added "All Objects" to alias properties.
- Use the last directory that a file was imported from when importing
additional files for binary fields.
1757076: (DATE column seen as TIMESTAMP, update in editable mode fails) Changed
the default of "Read Date as Timestamp" to false. This setting breaks editing
dates on Derby.
1743720: (Save settings immediately, not only when closing SQuirreL). Now there
is a setting in Global Preferences to "Save Preferences Immediately" (Default
is true) Additionally, if this is not desired and it can be disabled to give the
old behavior (faster), and a new menu item under "File" called "Save Preferences
"
is available to immediately save everything that is normally saved during
shutdown.
1742033: (Skipping quoting escape in table dropping) Refactoring plugin drop
table functionality now handles tables with embedded double quotes by doubling
the double quotes to allow the database to recognize the doubled quote as a
single quote which is part of the identifier. Thanks goes to Thomas Mueller
(from www.h2database.com) for contributing code to fix the issue)
1731251: (Cryptic exceptions with DB2 JCC driver) Provides an API to allow
plugin authors to create and register custom exception formatters to be used
when displaying error messages and the like in the session message panel.
Updated French translation (Thanks to Erwan Duroselle)
Finished German translation
Bug-Fixes:
Statements like
"SELECT TestTab.testid, TestTab.testname FROM TestTab"
were not editable.
Fixed bug in CodeReformator which is exposed when the statement separator
is "|". Also, made formatted source tab able to handle this type of problem
more gracefully by showing the source in it's original form, instead of
nothing at all.
Goto line dialog (ctrl+g) was missing labels.
1752089 (ConcurrentModificationException raised when loading schema)
1716859 Can't see data in content tab or row count tab (MS SQLServer databases
with a dash ("-") in their name would cause the content tab or row count
tabs to render no data.
1714476 (DB copy uses wrong case for table names) The copy operation would
sometimes fail to select records from the source table. Since the
case for the source table is always known to be correct, the plugin
no longer erroneously attempts to correct the case.
1714475: (Adding rows from the content tab) When inserting row data, pay
attention to isAutoIncrement flag so that these columns are excluded

like rowId columns. After insert, refresh the table data so that
auto-generated fields are populated.
1704798 ISQLExecutionListeners cannot return "null"
1701380 addSQLExecutionListener is broken
1700093 Formatter fails for insert script with multiple sub-selects
1699294 Squirrel imports BLOB, but does not update data
138092 (PostgreSQL table types) Now PostgreSQL table types list and object tree
exclude "SYSTEM INDEX" type. Treating these objects as tables causes
lots of SQLExceptions from the PostgreSQL jdbc driver.
Refactoring Plugin:
- When building a new TableColumnInfo, if the defaultValue textfield is blank,
then make the default value be null.
Task 137984 (Bug in alias delete) The problem was that notifications were
being sent to the alias drop-down that the item was being deleted which
triggered an update and new selection forcing the connect to alias window to
be launched. Now, the alias drop down is disabled while the update is
happening and enabled immediately afterward.
Fixed a bug that occurred when no plugin installs a custom QueryTokenizer in
a Session - changing the session properties for query tokenizing has no
effect.
Fixed bug which appeared while editing tables in PostgreSQL 8.1. If the table
was created without an OID column, the last column would not be editable.
Fix for issue where dates aren't correctly displayed or updated when using
'treat date as timestamp' pref in the SQl Editor result panel.
2.5 (4/7/2007)
==============
Enhancements:
-

Updated
Updated
Updated
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Czech translation (Thanks to Jan Kostrhun)

Simplified Chinese translation (Thanks to xpdz)
French translation (Thanks to Erwan Duroselle)
Italian translation strings (Thanks to Ivo Neri)

- When the user control-clicks on an identifier in the SQL editor it takes you
will show that object in the object tree (Same behavior as Ctrl-b).
- Dialog prompt to save file changes on exit, now includes the filename in
case there are multiple open files in different sessions. Also, the session
alias name appears in the title, in case the editor contents aren't yet
associated with a file.
- SQL history window
The contents of the SQL history combo box can now be opened in a window
where the user can search for formerly excuted statements. The history
is available through a button next to the SQL history combo box or through
tools pop up (ctrl+t).
- Export: Warn the user when exporting data to CSV/Excel if there are Clob

placeholders (<Clob>) in the table data being exported. Also, let the user
know when the export to file is complete, if no command is to be executed to
show the exported file.
- 'Delete Records' action now orders the selected tables in order to satisfy any
FK dependencies. Previously, this operation would fail if PK tables preceded
(by name alphabetically) FK tables in the object tree list.
- Certain plugins (Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL-Server) now have configuration tabs
(in Global Preferences) to allow for configuration of the statement separator
for scripts independently from the Session properties configuration. For
example, this means that now when you switch between session windows that use
different statement separators (Oracle = ';' / Sybase = 'GO'), you no longer
have to change the global statement separator for all sessions to get the
correct one for script execution. As long as you have the plugin installed
which corresponds to the type of database that a session is accessing, a
reasonable default is supplied to make this configuration unnecessary in most
cases.
- Added better support for executing large scripts (by default, a script is
considered large if it has > 200 SQL statements selected for execution in the
script). Now, only one message is written in the message panel at the bottom
of the session window at the end of running many statements summarizing the
details of execution (timing, statement type and count, etc). The message
"SQL Statement x of y <some sql...>" is still displayed in the results panel t
o
indicate progress. Also, the history bar isn't updated during large script
execution. The "200 SQL statement" default is configurable in Global
Preferences under 'SQL' tab and all of this new functionality can be disabled
by using '0' (zero) as the value of large script statement count. This
dramatically improves UI responsiveness for large scripts (especially those
with statement counts in the thousands) and makes it possible to cancel the
execution using the cancel button - which is otherwise effectively disabled
while the UI attempts to keep up with all of the UI updates in a large script.
New Plugins for H2, PostgreSQL and DB2
These plugins provide source tabs for stored procedures, views and trigg
ers.
They also provide details tab for sequences and triggers
New Plugin for Sybase ASE by Ken McCullough
The plugin allows to script the code of Views and Stored Procedures of t
he
Sybase ASE DB.
Code Completion:
- The number of table columns that should be displayed on top of the
completion list when completion is called outside of the scope of a
table/view is now configurable in code completion properties.
Edit Extras:
- New formatting action - remove newlines. This is useful when copying SQL
from console windows that insert end-of-line characters when copying.
Refactoring Plugin
- Added support for modifying the column type from varchar2 -> clob and
clob -> varchar2 (which isn't directly supported by Oracle's column modify
alter statement).
- 'Drop Tables' action now orders the selected tables in order to satisfy any
FK dependencies. Previously, this operation would fail if PK tables

preceded (by name alphabetically) FK tables in the object tree list.

SQL Scripts Plugin
- Now when selecting 'Create Data Script', the insert statements created are
ordered by the first column.
Oracle Plugin
- Added configuration panel for Oracle plugin in Global Preferences to allow
configuration of new custom Oracle query tokenizer.
- Added support for executing create procedure, create function and create
trigger blocks delimited by a single "/" such as is supported in SQL-Plus.
Also, added support for the "@" construct which is used to specify a script
file to be executed without loading it into the SQL Editor first.
- Source tab for views now presents source code that is formatted and
correctly formed to allow it to be used as an SQL statement to replicate
the view.
- Added the schema name to the SID for session nodes - it's easier now to
find the session you are looking for.
Informix Plugin
- Is now using the code reformatter for formatting the Source Tab for views
The code reformatter was written by Gerd Wagner and previoously located in
the EditExtras plugin. It has been moved to core so that other plugins can
take advantage of this capability.
DBCopy Plugin
- Allow the user to set "0" for the fetch size to indicate that this should
not be called. JDBC-ODBC bridge driver fails to execute *any* SQL once you
have set the fetch size to *any* value.
- Analyzes FKs to be copied and skips them if they already exist in
destination database.
- Now the plugin reorders source tables to satisfy FK dependencies when
copying data into existing tables with similar constraints.
- The error message for SQLExceptions now includes the SQL statement that was
last executed (including bind variable values if it was a PreparedStatement)
Data Type Controls/DBCopy preference sheet scrolling - sped up the scrollbar
so that one click of the down arrow gives ~10 pixels of scroll instead of
only 1 pixel. This makes it so that scrolling with a wheel mouse moves from
top edge to bottom edge in about three full rotations of the wheel instead of
about thirty.
Bug-Fixes:
- Fixed issue where USERS, SESSIONS, INSTANCES nodes in the object tree for
Oracle sessions weren't being populated with child nodes when the session is
first started.
- Added support for identifying Informix XPS, so that the Informix plugin can
be used (Thanks to Dieter Engelhardt for the patch)
- When treating dates like timestamps, simply use the DataTypeTimestamp class
instead of trying to make the DataTypeDate class smart enough to interpret
timestamps. This fixes the issue where a Number format error was encountered
while editing DATEs when they are being interpreted as TIMESTAMPS.
- Fixed NPE that is seen on startup when sessions are set to "Connect at Startup
"
- Fixed functions like Quote/Unquote SQL or Format SQL which were removing new l
ines.
(Now there is a separate function to remove newlines)
- Caching of schemas (serializing to disc) failed. A NotSerializableException
was thrown, due to development code introduced during version 2.5 development.
- An error occured when F5 (Refresh) was hit in a SQL Work Sheet or an Object Tr

ee Window.
1689040 (plugins prefs files saving)
Now preferences for some plugins (DBCopy, MS SQL-Server, Oracle, SQLScri
pt and
Sybase ASE) that were formerly stored in the program plugin directory,
are now
stored in the user's settings directory. This means that preferences fo
r these
plugins should now be preserved when re-installing SQuirreL to a new loc
ation.
To migrate existing settings, command-line arguments can be given:
-DmigratePreferences=true -DoldSQuirreLInstallDir=<old location>
This will result in migrating newer prefs.xml files that are located in
the program plugin directory
(e.g. <old location>/plugins/dbcopy/prefs.xml)
to the user's settings directory
(e.g. USER_HOME/.squirrel-sql/plugins/dbcopy/prefs.xml)
You should edit the launch script to add these settings, start SQuirreL,
stop SQuirreL gracefully, then remove these settings from the launch scr
ipt.
1682289 Schema browser won't show all schemas.
(Thanks to Robert Williams for the patch)
1681202 Access to column metadata by name (that is, COLUMN_NAME) fails. This
affected the SQLScripts and Graph Plugins for some versions of the DB2
JDBC driver)
1680919 failure to export cvs/excel on mac osx (incomplete ClassPath entry in
Info.plist)
1679998 DOUBLE PRECISION is rounded with locale datatype setting
1675787 Bad link in Online Help
1672207 Create Data Script - PostgreSql. PostgreSQL requires insert statement
boolean values to be literal strings "true" or "false", instead
of 1/0.
1660412 Create insert script hangs on explicit Oracle DATE fields (A bug in the
the SQL parsing routine would hang the thread when the word "fro
m"
appeared in a column name in the select statement)
1659412 TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE shows as <Unknown (-101)> - Support was added
for rendering values of columns with this Oracle-specific type.
1646886 (SQL Bookmarks: Duplicate parameters show as duplicates in the dialog bo
x)
Now parameter that appear multiple times in an SQL statement do not
result in multiple entry fields in the boolmark run dialog.

1643307 Title is missing in Save-Dialog (When ending a session for file saves)
1617839 Two new lines with white spaces in between do not separate SQLs when
SQLs are executed without selection.
1639680 Cannot export smallint and decimal to MS Excel
1635259 Session menu has two items with mnemonic "T"
1639662 Block comments can be ended prematurely
(Thanks to Sam Polak for the patch)
1631392 (Dropping materialized views) - The 'Drop' menu item has been replaced
by a 'Drop Table(s)' menu item available with the Refactoring Plugin.
The new menu item allows the user to specify whether or not to cascade
constraints as well as being able to see the SQL that will be executed.
1471672 Float numeric field precision loss in output (DBMS:Oracle)
1447227 Object tree should refresh when changing object tree filters
DBCopy Plugin
- If the source/dest database is Oracle, and the type of column being copied
is DATE, then treat it like a TIMESTAMP for reading or writing the value.
Oracle stores a time component in date columns and this change prevents the
time component value from being lost if the destination database can also
store a time component in DATE columns.
Derby Plugin
- Transformed trigger source tab contents into valid SQL that can be used
to re-create the trigger.
- Fixed multiple bugs that occurred in the source tab when the same
view/trigger name is used in multiple schemas.
Informix Plugin
- Fixed to work with IDS 9 - qualified references to all system views by
prefixing them with the string 'informix.' (no quotes).
- Fixed ordering segements within the body of Stored Procedures.
- Applied code formatting to triggers and view source.
- Fixed erroneous inclusion of extra whitespace which for some definitions
made the SQL invalid.
Oracle Plugin
- Fixed a memory leak where the plugin was holding on to closed sessions
Refactoring Plugin
- 'Drop Column' action now properly delegates db-specific drop column command
to the appropriate dialect for the session.
- Now allows precision and scale for new or modified columns to be set to 0.
- The scrollbar in the column list dialog now appears, where previously it
did not, making tables with many columns difficult to work with for
Add/Modify/Drop column.
2.4 (12/31/2006)
================
New Features/Enhancements:
Note: This is the first release of SQuirreL that specifically requires JDK 1.5

or higher to compile and run. The build scripts and the installer now check for
at least 1.5 before proceeding.
MS Excel export of displayed tables:
Besides the exporting tables displayed in SQuirreL to CSV files it is now
possible to export to MS Excel files. Thanks to Andr Schild for the patch.
Graph Plugin: New right mouse menu item for tables: "View table in Object tree"
Derby Plugin: A new plugin which allows the user to view source for triggers and
views. Also, detailed information about triggers is available.
Informix Plugin: A new plugin which allows the user to view source for stored
procedure, trigger and view objects. Also provides Informix-specific details
for indexes and triggers. Special thanks goes to Doug Lawry for help setting
up an Informix instance for developing the plugin, and providing the system
catalog queries necessary for the object information provided by this plugin.
Refactoring Plugin: A new plugin which currently allows users to alter
tables by adding, modifying and dropping columns as well as adding/dropping
Primary Keys. Uses an extended Hibernate dialect framework to derive SQL which
is syntactically correct for the database being modified.
Made SQuirreL work with hxtt drivers. See www.hxtt.com. Thanks to Yonghong Zhao
for patches.
Oracle Plugin:
Windows for
- DB Output,
- Session Info,
- SGA Trace,
- Invalid Objects
were changed in the following ways:
- Tool bar buttons are not in the main frame tool bar any more but in the
Session tool bar.
- Each window has its own tool bar icon.
- All windows restore their last size and position.
- All windows provide a "Stay on top" check box.
Syntax plugin: Corrections/Abreviations allow new lines. Use \n to create a
new line. Note: Bookmarks are more powerful than abreviations.
SQuirreL paths (-home, -user) are shown in Global Preferences
LAF Plugin: Added Napkin Look and Feel (JDK 1.5 only)
Completion Popup (Code Completion ctrl+space, Tools Popup ctrl+t,
Bookmarks Popup ctrl+j): When the beginning/end of the pop up list is reached
another arrow up/down jumps to the last/first entry.
1015274: Provided better DB2/400 system naming support
1602255: 'Interpret DATE columns as TIMESTAMP' also in SQL view. When this
configuration item is checked, any SQL query result that contains a DATE column
will show the DATE values as TIMESTAMP values (This is useful with Oracle where
DATE columns also contain TIME components)
Schema refresh on catalog combo box change:
Schemas are refreshed automatically, when the user switches to another catalog.
On systems that support Catalogs like Sybase or MSSQL, Schemas within a Catalog

only become accessible when the catalog combo box is switched to the their
Catalog. To make Schemas available in the Object Tree, Code completion etc.
after a Catalog switch Schemas are now automatically refreshed.
(Thanks to Stan Berka for this patch)
Graph Plugin:
The Graph plugin now allows to save jpg images to files instead of printing them
.
The image files are an exact copy of what would be sent to a printer and
can easily be used within other applications.
(Feature requested by David Karr)
DBCopy Plugin: Added support for Informix and HADB. Relocated dialect framework
to core to allow other plugins to use (Refactoring) - this version is now no
longer compatible or supported for previous versions of SQuirreL.
Re-organized the table and view context menus so that the SQLScripts
plugin menu items now appear under the "Scripts" menu item and in the
same order that they appear in the session menu "Scripts" menu item.
Updated Spanish translation strings (Thanks to Diego Schulz)
Added JDBC driver CLASSNAME and CLASSPATH to the Metadata tab so that
it is not necessary to open the driver definition for the current session to
get this information.
Bug-Fixes:
When reconnecting a Session with the current connection dead
SQuirreL always switched to Autocommit = false state. Now the Sessions
Autocommit state is preserved.
MySQL Plugin: Fixed bug which caused the MySQL all of the tabs to appear with no
content.
SQL editor function "View Object at cursor in Object tree" (ctrl+B) now works
for fully qualified object names with leading and trailing quotation marks and
slashes.
Oracle plugin: Fixed the rendering of details/source tabs for indexes
sequences and triggers.
Added support for Informix way of referring to database objects within
catalog and schema as catalog:"schema".objectname.
DBCopy plugin:
- Removed reflective code used for backward compatibility which was causing
IllegalAccessExceptions when the keyword test was applied to column names.
- Fixed bug in copying FK constraints which left cursors open by not properly
closing ResultSets when they were no longer needed.
- Fixed bug in copying FK constraints where the primary key table
name wasn't fully qualified the schema of the destination database. This was
most noticeable when copying tables with FKs into a schema which was not the
default schema for that session.
- Fixed bug where cancelling the copy operation during table data transfer
did not also cancel the transfer of table constraints.

1601610 - Bug while editing integer/long columns

1598162: Fixed the issue when using Java 6 you had to click the Connect button
twice when the app is first started.
1597463: Maximized and multimonitor window size not saved
1595913: Cannot select SQL dropdown under java 6.
Added logic to prevent the MacOS X plugin from loading if not on the mac
platform. It causes the Global Preferences menu item to disappear when it is
loaded and the platform isn't Mac
Look and Feel Plugin: Plastic Look and Feels (JGoodies) weren't available anymor
e.
"Make Editable" on single table SQL did not work when SELECT list contained new
lines.
1554175: (Aliases lost on close)
1532997: (NullPointerException when trying to save alias)
1522229: (Error occured saving Alias Definitions java.lang.NullPointer)
Many people complained about this one. At first we determined this was low
priority since it didn't seem to be reproducable on all jvms. We inadvertantly
changed the SQLDriverPropertyCollectionBeanInfo such that it no longer
accurately described the bean SQLDriverPropertyCollection. in 1.4.2_05 this
triggered an NPE bug in the jvm code (Introspector.addPropertyDescriptor) which
caused the SQLAlias persistence to fail, leaving the user with no aliases.
1584283: (DBCopy plugin - Copying LOBs from Oracle to Oracle fails)
If destination column type is Types.OTHER (1111), try to get
the type name and map it to a valid java SQL type (such as
Types.BLOB or Types.CLOB). This only works when the database column
type name as reported by the JDBC driver is a standard type such as
BLOB, VARCHAR, CLOB, CHAR, etc... A mapping exception is thrown
otherwise.
1584260: (DBCopy plugin - Fix for issue where the same table is found in
multiple schemas/catalogs that the user has access to. Now we specify catalog
or schema if the driver claims to support them.)
1577254: Trigger details tabs aren't rendered
1532857: (DB2 on AS400 table list not shown) Incorporated Colin Bell's patch
to address this issue which causes SQuirreL to give '*ALLUSR' for the schema
value when calling DatabaseMetaData.getTables.
1520156: changed the function of the configurable ref actions checkboxes for
SQLScript plugin. Now, they will override what is contained in the
DatabaseMetaData if checked. If not checked, we now use whatever the database
tells us the ref action is (before we weren't bothering to check the with
the database. Now we do, by default)
1508503: (Double entry for each column fields): Don't add the column to the
list if it is already there - uses the fully qualified version of the column,
so may still see duplicate columns with different types.
Bug Fix: Editing data in multiple tables would sometimes fail erroneously with
an error message like "This row in the Database has changed since you

refreshed the data. No rows will be updated by this operation".

Bug Fix: Solved issue where tables were not appearing in the object tree for
Sun HADB (High-Availability Database). Special thanks to Lars Heill of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. for technical assistance with installing/configuring HADB.
2.3 Final
=========
Enhancements:
An Italian translation of SQuirreL labels/messages is now available in the
installer (Thanks to Ivo Neri)
Bug Fixes:
1563613: Alias property window dies when URL is malformed.
1563610: (Only connection specified DB schema loaded regardless)
Enhanced the catalog selection so that changing the catalog
updates the schema info and expands the TABLES node in the tree
for the selected catalog.
1563603: ORA-01830 error: Date format
1561293: Show Loaded Drivers Only" does not work in "Add Alias" dialog.
1558509: 'create sequence' rejected as invalid SQL
1520156: (Reverse Engineering Foreign Key Cascade Missing). Added
configuration for referential actions clause of FK constraints.
1426012: PLAN_TABLE not found - look for PLAN_TABLE in other schemas and allow
user to choose one.
1371587: Not possible to edit data after SQL query
1250855: (Oracle DATE does not display correctly) Added a new configuration
item to Global Preferences -> Date Type Controls -> Date Section
which allows the user to "Interpret DATE columns as TIMESTAMP".
Bug Fix: Fix for issue where the SGA Trace view wasn't displaying data in the
"Buffer Gets per Row" column.
2.3 rc2
=========
New Features/Enhancements:
Feature Request #1556226: New menu items in the right mouse menu of tables "Adopt all column widths" - Adopts all columns widths of current table to
header/data.
"Always adopt all column widths" (check box) - Widths are automatically
adopted for all tables opened
in the future.
New menu-item "Export CSV" in context menu of table contents spreadsheet allows
the user to choose whether to use formatting from Global Prefs or default
formatting.

SQL result tabs offer to rerun their SQL query to update their data.
Text limit line of Netbeans editor can now be positioned or switched off in
Session Properties.
Bug Fixes:
1448738: (JDK 6.0 regression) This appeared to be a bug in the Java 6 SE, but it
turned out that we weren't using the correct method to load classes fro
m
the ClassLoader. Sun "fixed" the method (ClassLoader.loadClass) that
we were using previously so that it no longer worked as it did in 1.4
and 1.5. For details see:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6446627
We rectified the problem in SQuirreL by following Sun's suggestions
regarding which API methods are being called.
1544447: (Generated SQL script Table names are not fully Qualified, it should
be "SCHEMA"."TABLE_NAME") Added a new global preference panel
and
checkbox to make this alternative behavior configurable. The d
efault
now is to qualify table names with their schema name.
1541154: (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in DataTypeDouble)
1533824: (NPE when loading keywords from DatabaseMetaData) Check the values
returned for null before attempting to parse and store them
(DB2 driver returns null for getCatalogTerm())
Bug fix: When doing a complete refresh (F5) or a refresh item in the Object tree
(see right mouse menu) code completion was not refreshed.
Bug fix: In Oracle Plugin - Avoided open cursors when viewing database output
( dbms_output.put_line() ).
Bug fix: Stored procedures where not shown in Object Tree when the
Oracle Plugin was used.
Bug fix: When a Schema was created and the Object Tree was refreshed the new
Schema was not shown.
Bug fix: In Alias properties for Oracle Note: This bug took effect when default Alias properties were used.
So this fix probably increases Session startup performance for Oracle
users who use the Oracle plugin but do not care for Alias properties.
Bug: When an Alias was configured to load all Schemas and cache non
but the Oracle Alias properties didn't allow to load all schemas
SQuirreL still did load all tables and procedures from the database.
Though the unallowed tables and procedures did not show up in the Object
tree they still caused bad startup perfomance.
Fix: Now only tables and procedures for allowed schemas are loaded.
Bug fix: Object tree table tab titles were not being internationalized as
their values were hard-coded and not available in
I18NStrings.properties files. Now they are.
Installer Changes:

Three new translations were added to the installer:

Simplified Chinese (Thanks to xpdz)
French (Thanks to Erwan Duroselle)
German (Thanks to Andreas Oswald)
Added new optional plugin (DBCopy) to the installer which allows database tables
and their content to be copied from one session to another inside of SQuirreL
using Copy/Paste menu items.
2.3 rc1
=========
If an Alias is configured to Auto Logon but has wrong user name/password
on connecting the user gets an error dialog and has to correct user name/passw
ord.
For convenience the corrected data now is written back to the Alias.
Note: The Writing back is only done when the Alias is configured to Auto Logon
.
Session startup performance
General: New Alias properties allow to configure loading and caching of Schema
s.
Oracle: When the Oracle Plugin ist used an Oracle tab in Alias properties enab
les you
to allow an Alias's Sessions only to see Schemas the user has access t
o.
Fixed bug #1504123: Oracle hints losts
By default SQuirreL treads /*...*/ as comments and removes them before sending
a SQL to a database.
This default may now be changed in the (New) Session Properties. See Menu File
--> New Session Properties --> Tab SQL.
Added toolbar button to toggle auto commit
Bug fixes in Oracle Plugin:
- Explain Plan not visible in Results tab
- Object tree: Sessions, Users and Instances and nodes sometimes not visible
- Object tree: SYS Schema displayed twice for certain user rights
- Fixed Memory Leak (Session were not garbage collected when Oracle Plugin was
used)
Fixed bug #984527: Right mouse popup menu is now available in empty table.
Feature request #1446675 Output tables to CSV files
All tables' right mouse menus have an 'Export CVS ...' item.
In the export dialog you may provide an application (like OpenOffice calc or M
S Excel)
to open the CSV file immediately after creation.
New toolbar button: Select current SQL (control Shift S)
This function is based on SQuirreL's concept of 'current SQL': If there is no s
elected text the current SQL
is the text between the empty line in fornt of cursor position and the empty li

ne after cursor position.

Any function that deals with SQL is aware of this concept.
Installer now includes the following optional translation packages:
- Brazilian Portuguese (contributed by Francis Martin)
- Czech (contributed by Jan Kostrhun)
- Bulgarian (contributed by Ivan Dimov)
Feature request #1441787 Quickly adopt column widths to column values
when table header is double clicked while the resize mouse pointer (<-->) is v
isible. (MS Excel like)
Enhancements of the Bookmarks Plugin
- Bookmark preferences can be opened by the "Edit Bookmarks" button in the Sess
ion toolbar.
- Bookmarks can be run from within the Bookmark Preferences.
- Lots of "SQuirreL Bookmarks" which are templates for many common SQL/DDL stat
ements.
- User can decide if he wants to see "SQuirreL Bookmarks" in the Bookmarks sele
ction popup of the SQL Editor (ctrl j).
Fixed bugs in error and syntax highlighting:
- Error highlighting for "ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT ..."
- Error highlighting for "CREATE VIEW ..."
- Error and syntax highlighting for "CASE [...] WHEN ... THEN ... ELSE .. END"
Centralized Database Meta Data caching. This brings along the following improvem
ents:
- When a DDL statement is run the Object Tree is updated immediately to reflect
the change.
This works as long as standard DDL statements are used.
- Syntax coloring and code completion for newly created tables, views, columns,
procedures is available
right after a DDL statement was run. This works as long as standard DDL statem
ents are used.
- The Refresh button updates the Object tree as well as syntax highlighting and
code completion.
Make the status message for rows affected by executing an SQL statement in the S
QL panel
take into account the type of SQL query issued.
Fixed Bug #1472398: Content tab filters didn't work with views.
Fixed Bug #1465707: Programm slow with big Databases because reading Database Me
ta Data twice.
Technical detail: The SchemaInfo class has become SQuirreL's
central meta data cache.
Fixed Bug: SQuirreL crashed during building output of SQL results when errors oc
cured in number-type or date-type fields.
Fixed Bug in Graph Plugin: In zoomed graphs lines with folding points could not
be selected.
2.2 Final

=========
- Fixed Bug #1467671: Session Properties / General / Appearance: "SQL Results Ta
bs" overwrites
"SQL Execution Tabs" setting.
- Fixed Bug #1464361: Windows bat file is location specific (Thanks to Bill Wall
ace)
- Fixed Bug #1456423: Cannot cancel a query. Changed to allow the cancel operati
on to interrupt the
fetching of results. While resolving the "hanging" of a lo
ng-running this also
allows results that have been fetched so far to be displaye
d.
This can help the user determine why the query was taking a
long time to execute.
- Fixed Bug #1447231: ESCAPE key should close dialogs
- Fixed Bug #1457811: Autocomplete does not work for views when tables and view
names match.
- Fixed Bug for Teradata not showing SQL results. (Thanks to Matthew Dahlman)
- Fixed Bug #1456463: update to allow the user to override the closing of a sess
ion in the event that
there are unsaved edits and they decide not to save them rig
ht away. They can
always choose to not save and discard, closing the session i
mmediately. This
change will make it so that if they choose to not discard, a
nd something happens
during the save that causes the edits not to get saved, the
session will not be
closed. Added independently configurable options to warn wh
en closing a session
if there are any unsaved edits (optional for File or Buffer)
. If the
"Confirm Session Close" option is turned off, these can stil
l be enabled so that
unsaved edits are never lost merely by closing a session. P
reviously it was very
easy to lose changes made in the SQL edit tab when the sessi
on was closed. This
previous behavior, if desired, is still available via Global
Preferences.
- Fixed Bug #1441169: error in removing a deleted row more than once.
- Fixed Bug #1250514: Mysql Error: Cannot edit table.
2.2 RC1
=======
- There is now a printer icon in each SQL entry panel which will allow
the current sql script to be send to a printer. Syntax highlighting
is preserved. SQL entry panel size is used to scale the font.
- Feature request #1441563 Query script generation:

New entry for tables and views in the Objects tree's right mouse menu to creat
e SELECT statements.
- Added menu item and supporting capability to the SQLScripts plugin to
create a drop table script from the selected tables in the object tree.
- Added new property for drivers - website url - and a new menu item for
drivers to launch the system default web browser and load the driver
website url.
- When adding a new driver definition, SQuirreL will now look at the default
driver list and determine if any driver defs are missing from the user's
personal list. If so, SQuirreL will prompt the user to add them.
- MSSQL plugin: Scripting of procedures now works on MSSQL 2005
- Improved performance of the Session window when connecting to a database
over a slow link (especially Oracle). Instead of freezing the window, now
SQuirreL indicates the progress of the session connection in the session
frame status bar and allows the user to perform other tasks in parallel.
Note: The session frame close button is temporarily ignored when the session
is still loading and therefore not in a safe state to be closed. Once
the session has been loaded, the close button will be re-enabled.
- Keyboard short cuts are shown in tool bar tool tips.
- Navigation through SQLs in SQL Editor by tool bar or Alt up/down keys.
Note: The concept of an SQL in SQuirreL is the text between two empty lines. M
any
functions in SQuirreL use this concept. This way the user often doesn't
need to mark the text he wants to execute a function on.
The concept is especially convenient for the Run SQL function (control E
nter).
- Introduced Oracle specific code to allow editing of tables in Oracle that cont
ain Date columns.
Oracle stores time information in java.sql.Types.DATE columns. The where claus
es that SQuirreL
used to create to update data after editing only contained the Date part of th
ose columns. That's why
the where clause didn't match the database row and editing failed.
- SQL Editor: ctrl+backspace deletes word behind cursor.
- SQL Editor: To upper/lower case function available in tools pop up or by short
cut ctrl+shift+u/l
- Row numbers in SQL result and Object Tree tables tables:
Use the right mouse menu in SQL result tables or Object Tree tables to switch
on row numbering.
- Improved handling of detached result windows:
* By default result windows stay on top. A check box in the result window allo
ws to change the default.
* Result windows show up in the window list of the Windows menu and can be nav
igated to by Alt+left/right arrow.
- Added New, Close and Append icons/actions to allow the SQL Panel to function m
ore

like an editor.
- Added "Delete Records" menu item to the context menu for tables to delete all
records
in one or more selected tables.
- Installer now includes an optional Spanish translation package which provides
native
labels and messages for use in a Spanish locale.
- Cleaned up copying from tables:
1. Control+c and copy in the right mouse menu now do the same: They copy data
without column headers.
2. A new right mouse menu entry ('Copy with headers') provides the ability to
copy data including
column headers
- Fixed bug #1450856: The "new" button has no icon
- Fixed bug #1448345: Canceling "Save As... " option (overwrites file anyway)
- Fixed bug #1424828: Not possible to clear Non-nullable fields using backspace
- Fixed bug #1423029: Session window will not close for Postgresql
- Fixed bug #1409055: Copy as HTML in results tab does not set correct mime type
- Fixed bug #1403462: MS SQLServer Plugin throws NPE
- Fixed bug #1401672: NullPointerException when selecting Row IDs tab
- Fixed bug #1399254: Missing i18n strings
- Fixed bug #1370186: SQL Editor discards changes when session is closed
- Fixed bug #1385270: Dropping multiple selected tables produces exceptions
- Fixed bug #1256021: Refresh item on a table showing the row number does not up
date the row count
- Fixed bug #1230126: ClassCastException when editing table data for tables with
short and long column
- Fixed bugs #1043604 and #1043599: Unlocalized decimal separator caused problem
s when data was pasted
for example to Open Office Calc. In the Global preferences
the user is now able
to chose the Java default format for floating point values
or the localized form.
- Fixed bug # 863673: cannot DROP TABLE
- Fixed bug # 887525: When Object Tree Nodes are the selected by keystrokes the
selected node is scrolled
to visible.
- Fixed bug # 763347: Alias and Datasource loss on crash. Files are now written
to a temp file first and
then renamed.
- Fixed bug: In
- Fixed bug: In
able alias name
in
pta)

Code Completion, the database-dependent keywords where missing

code completion, columns weren't shown correctly when the same t
was used
different statements for different tables (Thanks to Abhishek Gu

2.1 final
=========
- Fixed bug #757354 Aliases not reordering on change: Introduced sort button in
Alias window tool bar.
- Fixed bug #732696: Dump application success window title and Dump application
file filter.
- SQuirreL is ready for internationalization. The new I18n plugin supports trans
lations.

Put the Plugin in your Plugin path, restart SQuirreL and open the Global Prefe
rences dialog.
There you'll find a new tab named I18n. Follow the instructions there.
- Fixed bug #1386916 (Informix 3.0 JC3 is considered "not JDBC 2.1 compliant) Th
e
algorithm for detecting non-compliance incorrectly concluded non-compliance if
the
database doesn't support save points.
- Oracle Plugin: Added access to SYS schema in the object tree for non-privilege
d
users since this is where the user-oriented DDL information tables and views a
re located.
- Fixed bug #1377304: Ant-built distributions do not preserve file permissions
(Thanks to Charles Albrecht)
- Fixed bug #1376981: SQL Scripts plugin fails to create table script for Axion
DB.
- Fixed *ugly* bug in editing SQL results:
To reproduce the bug you had to have two editable SQLs for different tables. E
xecute the first
and edit some results. Close the result tab. Execute the second SQL. Editing o
f this
result would fail. The reason was that SQuirreL reuses result tabs but did not
properly initialize
them before reuse. Because of this editing could feel terribly instable when s
ome results had been closed
and SQuirreL began to reuse tabs.
- Sizes of Properies and Preferences windows are restored.
- Made Syntax highlighting work for: Data Types, Functions, Operators, Identifie
rs, White Spaces
- Fixed bug #1276957: Oracle protocol violation.
- Oracle Plugin (v0.15) - If the user doesn't have the DBA privilege, then only
loads the
schemas in the object tree to which the user has been granted access.
2.1 rc2
=======
- Bug fix: If SQLs are saved to a file the Session window's title bar displayed
an error message instead of
the alias and file name.
- Bug fix: If two Sessions are open and one is closed the one left open lost key
bindings
which means that for example arrow navigation keys don't work anymore.
2.1 rc1
=======
- Selecting a code completion with tab (instead of enter) will delete the string
between the carret position and the next white space.
- New Session properties to configure code completion for functions. Examples: {
call myFun(<IN Integer myParam>} or plain myFun()
- Fixed memory leaks. The memory panel in the status bar now tells which Session
are garbage collected.
Use JDK 1.5.x for better memory behavior.
- Fixed several problems when reconnecting an open Session. (See menu Session -> reconnect)

- Improved Exception handling and new Log panel in Status bar:

SQuirreL's: exception/log handling had two problems:
i. Exceptions could easily occur without being logged.
ii. It was hard for users to get aware of logs. The only way was to regularly
open the logs window.
It is taken care now that all exceptions are logged. The user is notified that
a log was produced by the
new Log panel in SQuirreL's status bar. A traffic lights color of the last log
is displayed on one of the
Log panel's buttons. The last log color is displayed for 5 seconds and is the
n turned bag to white.
This allows the user to have an eye an the logs without much disturbance.
The buttons of the Log panel allow the user to view the last Log and to open t
he logs window.
-

New Memory panel in Status bar.

Cleaned up SQuirreL logs
Made Swingset's Aqua Look and Feel available
Fixed bug: No line counter label on SQL Worksheet (opened by ctrl+n)
Fixed the following Exception on Sybase when the Object tab was used:
java.sql.SQLException: "..."."dbo"."..." not found
(Thanks to Gupta, Abhishek)
- Added "cut/copy SQL to be executed" function to the editor. Since SQuirreL kno
ws the concept
of SQL text without selection (from caret position between previous and next e
mpty line),
these functions are short hands for the usual copy and cut which only work on
selected text.
- Fixed deleting rows from editable SQL result and from contents tab (ArrayIndex
OutOfBounds)
- Fixed bug #1331445: Line comments could change SQLs.
- Patch #1326472 - Oracle plugin is smarter about accessing restricted tables as
an unprivileged user
(Thanks to Alexander Buloichik)
- Bug fix: Limited rows/SQL - hints on top of a result tab could be corrupted (f
or example multi lined) because of missing HTML escaping.
- Improved messaging for driver definition.
- Bug fix: Driver Icon did not update when driver was changed.
- Added IBM DB2 Net driver to default drivers.
- The source SQL statement used to create a view is now available via the MS SQL
Server plugin.
- Patch #1324774 The source SQL statement used to create a view is now available
via the
Oracle Plugin (Thanks to Alexander Buloichik)
- Added Session Property "load columns in background". This option might help pe
ople who feel that the SQL editor
hangs because they use databases with a lot of objects and/or use low data tra
nsfer rates.
- Configurable warning for JDBC API version mismatch between the JVM and JDBC dr
iver
- Fixed bug #1316903 (SQL Panel hangs when Ctrl-B on whitespace)
- Added comment/uncomment functions to the SQL editor.
- Made auto corrections and duplicate line available outside the Netbeans editor
.
- Bug fix: Code completion did not work when object was directly preceded by =,>
or <. Example: Table1.col1=Tab...
- Enabled code completion when a ' or a " is on front of the name to complete (R
FE 1305802)

- Fixed bug #1288519 (Postgres: editing boolean fields)

- Fixed for table and tree row height for large fonts. (Thanks to Mitch Skinner)
- User may define an Object tree filter through the Session Properties. Useful f
or large databases. (Thanks to Oliver Jehle)
2.0 final
=========
- Fix for not shown SQL result on derby DB
- Right Mouse Menu on SQL result tabs (Not working on JDK 1.4 with scrollable ta
bbed panes due to Bug #4465870.)
Functions also available in tools popup
- Session property: Limit SQL result tabs.
By default limiting is switched on and set to 15 tabs.
- Fixed Bug #1234642 (Missing query numbers in message panel)
- When executing a SQL batch (several SQL's separated by statement separator)
in case of an error the errornous SQL is printed to the message panel.
- From within the SQL Editor one can jump to the Object at cursor in the Object
tree.
To do so use the ctrl+B shortcut or the right mouse menu or the tools popup (c
trl+T)
- New Session property: 'Write SQL Execution Errors to log file'.
The execution errors of an SQL statement shown in the message panel
may now also be written to the squirrel-sql.log file
- Fixed bug #1244287 (white space after statement)
- Fixed bug #1217765 (Editing table data for tables with BIT column type)
- Mnemonics for Main Tabbed Pain
- Fixes in editing SQL Results:
Editing didn't work when a column was in the select list twice
Editing didn't work when a column was when the statement was like 'SELECT * FR
OM MyTable ORDER BY MyID'
- Added new Global Preference to show the plugin files being loaded in Splash Sc
reen on startup

2.0rc1
======
Most important changes:
-Multiple Session Windows: User may open extra Object Tree or SQL Window
-Tools popup in SQL Editor (Ctrl+T)
Standard and Base installation. Standard bundled with the following Plugins (See
help for further details):
-Code Completion: Offers code completion the same way as modern IDEs do.
-Syntax: Syntax highlighting.
-Edit Extras: Auxiliary functions to work with SQL code for example formatting
-Graph: Create a chart of the tables and foreign-key relationships between them
-SQL Script: Generation of SQL and DDL scripts
-SQL Bookmarks: Managing SQL code templates
-Look and Feel: Switching the look and feel
-Saving/Loading files integrated in SQuirreL's core
-Selected tab and slider location on the SQL tab are remembered
-Copy as SQL IN Statement function in tables
-Display text reminding the user if the results of a query have been limited to
X rows

1.2beta7

========
Enhancements
------------ Arguments passed to both the shell script and the batch file will be passed
on to SQuirreL.
- Replace newlines with <BR> when doing a "Copy as HTML" from the results of a
query.
- Display text reminding the user if the results of a query have been limted to
X rows.
- Prompt for confirmation before closing a session.
- Display the catalog in the session title.
- Display a welcome screen the first time SQuirreL is run.
- When sorting columns in a table use a non-case sensitive but locale aware
method.
- If you close the aliases and drivers windows this is remembered when you
restart SQuirreL.
Bug Fixes
--------- Allow for nulls when displayng Date, Time, and Tmestamp columns.
- Remove <CTRL><SHIFT>L from Display Logs menu item as it is used by another
menu item.
- Remove the Filter option from the popup menu in the object tree as this
functionality hasn't been implemented.
- Bring the main window to the front when it is first displayed. Required with
some JREs on Linux.
- Fixed logging config argument in shell script.
- Fix displaying of clob columns. The display would appear to lockup.
- List Drivers button now works when a JDBC driver spans multiple jar files.
- Don't list abstract classes (I.E. JDBC drivers that can't be loaded) when the
List Drivers button pressed.
- Allow for DB2 not returning all possible schema names.
- Make sure popup dialogs aren't positioned off screen.
- The data displayed within the Contents tab was lost when a session sheet was
deactivated and then activated.
- Use default Look and Feel for the installer as the Kunststoff Look and Feel
didn't display correctly on OSX.
- On Linux the $JAVA_HOME variable in the squirrel-sql.sh script was replaced
with the actual value during the install which caused problems if a new
version of Java was later installed.
- Fix ClassCastException thrown by the parser (Gerd Wagner).
- Fix Bug #981490 OutOfMemoryException partly caused by the parser (Gerd
Wagner).
Other
----- Allow for JDBC drivers that return null for Driver.getPropertyInfo(...)
instead of an empty array.
1.2beta6
========
Enhancements
------------ Added "Reformat XML" popup menu option to show formatted XML in a column
(Gerd Wagner).
- User may identify specific columns to use in WHERE clause when editing
cells in table by using the "Limit cell edit WHERE clause size" entry in

the Session menu (Glenn Griffin).

- All tables may be printed. Use right mouse click, "print". Large tables
are automatically split across multiple pages both horizontally and
vertically (Glenn Griffin).
- The "Session Properties"->"Format" screen has been moved to "Global
Preferences"->"Data Type Controls", and many new controls have been added
to adjust how specific data types are used or displayed. (Glenn Griffin)
Examples:
- Some DBs do not allow LONGVARCHAR to be used in the WHERE clause, so t
his
may now be disabled
- Dates, Times and Timestamps may be displayed and entered in a
user-selected format
- Strings containing newlines may display the newlines as "\n" or not sh
ow
them as selected by the user.
Bug Fixes
--------- Close metadata result sets once they are no longer required.
- Fixed bug where inserting/updating and deleting rows in the SQL tab would
loop (Gerd Wagner).
- Fixed bug where setting the statement separator to an empty string then
wouldn't allow you to change it to anything else (Gerd Wagner).
- Fixed bug where minimized session windows weren't restored correctly (Gerd
Wagner).
- Improved Undo handing (Gerd Wagner).
- Fix NullPointerException when starting an Oracle 8.1.7.4 session (Gerd
Wagner).
- Fix bug under Linux where sometimes the SQL history combobox would fill the
entire window (Gerd Wagner).
- Fix for multiple result set handling under the Cache DBMS from Intersystems
(Gerd Wagner).
- Fixed incorrect handling of the "log-config-file" argument (Kevin Gilpin)
- Tables with many columns should now allow editing by using the "Limit cell
edit WHERE clause size" session tool (Glenn Griffin).
1.2beta5
========
Enhancements
------------ added the 'IS NULL' and 'IS NOT NULL' to the choices for operator in
the Where Clause panel (Maury Hammel).
- When the 'add' button is pressed to put a Where Clause construct into
the text area, the 'Value' text area is cleared (Maury Hammel).
- Enabled wrapping and added JScrollPanes to the Where Clause and Order
By Clause text areas, so Panels behave better where large values are put
in them (Maury Hammel).
- You can now specify whether JDBC logging uses the deprecated output stream or
the new writer (Neville Rowe).
- You can now filter the catalogs displayed in the object tree (Keith
Mashinter).
- You can now specify whether to load schemas/catalogs in the object tree
(Keith Mashinter).
- You can now specify whether to load result set metadata when executing an SQL
(Keith Mashinter).
- You can Import/Export cell data to/from files and operate on that data with

external commands (e.g. VI, etc) (Glenn Griffin)

- BLOBs and CLOBs are now fully editable, as are all of the most common SQL
types (Glenn Griffin).
- Data that can be edited only in the Popup (ie. not in the cell) is now shown
with a Cyan background to tell the user that it can be edited, but only in
the Popup (Glenn Griffin).
- Data containing newlines now shows the newlines explicitly in the in-cell
view, i.e. as "\n" (Glenn Griffin).
- User may select specific columns to use in the WHERE clause when editing
a specific table.
- A new row can be inserted into an empty table using the Contents tab
by using the right mouse button on the (empty) panel.
Bug Fixes
--------- SQL that returns multiple result sets is now handled correctly (Neville
Rowe).
- Fix manifest file so the the squirrel-sql.jar file is again executable (Denis
Lundberg).
- Fix resource strings (Dennis Lundberg).
- Do a better job of handling MS SQL server catalog names that contain periods.
- Strings (VARCHAR and CLOB) fields containing newlines would loose those
newlines if edited within the cell. In-cell editing of that data is now
blocked (Glenn Griffin).
- SQL problem with WHERE clause being too long (table has too many columns)
fixed by allowing user to select specific columns to use in WHERE.
Other
----- New API ISession.addToToolbar(Action action) added (Gerd Wagner).
- Don't default to displaying the Contents Tab for a table. This can cause
performance issues when looking at SQL Views (Gerd Wagner).
1.2beta4
========
Enhancements
------------ Add "Get Last SQL" button to SQL entry area.
- Show tooltip in sql history combo when combo collapsed.
- You can now filter the schemas displayed in the object tree (Keith
Mashinter).
- Show the position of the caret from the SQL entry area caret in a new label
in status bar.
- Added a statusbar to the Help Viewer.
- New session property "Abort On Error".
- Data in the Popup (from double-clicking a cell in ContentsTab) is now
editable (Glenn Griffin).
- Data in individual cells may be imported, exported, or operated on by an
external program from the Popup window (double-click on cell in ContentsTab)
(Glenn Griffin).
Bug Fixes
-------- Fixed NullPointerException thrown by the Syntax plugin.
- The title from the wrong column was used in the popup window for a columns
data if the columns in the table had been resequenced (Joseph Boyd).
- Allow for SQLException thrown by HSQLDB 1.7.1 on ResultSetmetaData.isSigned.

- If the columns in a table were resequenced and then the data was copied to
the clipboard then the column headings in the clipboard were in the wrong
order (Joseph Boyd).
- Entries in the catalogs dropdown are now sorted.
Other
----- Move DataCache class to fw classes.
- Add StringManager class to allow strings to be stored in property
files rather than hardcoded. Once this is used throughout the
application it will mean that SQuirreL can be internationalized.
- Add jGoodies Forms library for building GUIs.
- Use Apache CLI library for processing command line arguments.
- New method in SQL execution listener 'allStatementsExecuting'.
- New API allowing plugins to add/remove items from the status bars.
1.2beta3
========
Enhancements
------------ Contents tab has been made the default when first displaying table in
Object view (Glenn Griffin).
Bug Fixes
--------- Fix for selecting which SQL gets executed. When the cursor is on a line in
the SQL entry that contains at least part of aan SQL statement then only that
SQL statment should be executed.
- Don't save duplicates in SQL history.
- Only load SQL history once.
1.2beta2
========
Enhancements
------------ Change the background of the contents tab when in "edit mode" (Glenn
Griffin)
- Put quotes around character data in the contents tab Filter (Maury Hammel).
- Column names in the Contents Tab Filter are now sorted (Maury Hammel).
- The IN operator has been added to the Contents Tab Filter (Maury
Hammel).
- New application setting allows you to specify whether the coloured icons are
shown in toolbars (Bai Yuhong).
Bug Fixes
--------- Fix data corruption issue if you change the selected table in the
object tree while editing data (Glenn Griffin)
1.2beta1
========
Enhancements
------------ Enhanced the highlighting in the message panel (Victor Ott).

- Can now filter the data on the Contents tab (Maury Hammel).
- Add Firebird Jaybird to the list of default drivers.
- Allow for bug in Opta2000 driver which limits the number of rows
modified by an UPDATE statement to that specified by setMaxRows()
(Gerd Wagner).
- Display warnings issued by SQL connections and statements in the
message panel.
- Can now specify session sheets to be opened maximized.
- Show as much as possible of the SQL statement in the SQL history
dropdown and show it all in the tooltip.
- Put focus to SQL entry area when SQL tab selected (Gerd Wagner).
- The SQL separator character can now be a multiple character string
(Gerd Wagner).
- New application argument -useNativeLAF which will make SQuirreL use
the native Look and Feel rather than the Java one.
- Data can now be maintained in the Contents tab (Glenn Griffin).
- Orientation of tabs can now be specified in session properties.
- Remove the plugin Help menu options and display their help in the main
help window.
- Display error message if no SQL selected for execution.
- Cache database metadata information.
- Refresh catalogs dropdown when object tree refreshed
- Make Plugins Summary dialog modeless.
- Allow queries to be cancelled when they are "building output".
- Driver properties can now be specified on the alias.
- You can now "word wrap" data in the Column Data popup window.
- Text Popup menu can now be displayed in the Column Data popup window.
- Show chained SQL exceptions in error dialog.
- Add "Copy" menu options to the popup menu in the object tree.
- Add the MySQL driver to the default list of drivers. Update the jTDS
URL for the latest version of jTDS (Dennis Lundberg).
- You can now specify that an Alias will connect when SQuirreL starts
up.
- Allow user to define an Alias to logon automatically without prompting
for user and password (Gerd Wagner).
- Allow user to store a password in the Alias definition (Gerd Wagner).
- You can now display only loaded JDBC drivers in the Drivers list.
- You can now limit the size of the SQL history combobox.
- Allow SQL history to be persistent and shareable between different
sessions (Lynn Pye).
- Added Next and Previous Session commands to the menu system (Gerd
Wagner).
- Do a better job of handling schemas and/or catalogs when building the
object tree for DBMS's/drivers that misreport catalog/schema
information (Gerd Wagner).
- Allow for multiple result sets returned from an SQL statement.
- Add "Goto Next Result Tab" and "Goto Previous Result Tab" options to
Session menu.
- Remember the selected alias and driver between restarts.
- Added SQL execution statistics to the Info tab on the SQL output
panel.
- Better positioning of the Column Details popup (Maury Hammel)
- Added JavaDoc target to build file (Johnathan James).
- When clearing the message panel the background is reset to white
(Maury Hammel).
- Display column header as a tooltip if the table column isn't wide
enough to display it (Stephen Straub).
- Add the ability to "Tile Vertically" and "Tile Horizontally" (Rick
Strickland).

Bug Fixes
--------- Show all errors in the driver maintenance dialog.
- Fix to be able to display data in PostgreSQL UDT columns.
- Fix for single character separator at end of line/document
- Fix NullPointer exception when updating caret position in statusbar.
- Clear all metadata result sets when finished with them.
- Default catalogs dropdown to the correct catalog when session opened.
- Remove Clear option from standard text popup menu.
- Retrieve time as well as date for Oracle Date type columns.
- Hide password contents on Proxy settings panel.
- Put correct default port in the MM MySQL driver (Dennis Lundberg).
- Allow for drivers that return null for getTableTypes().
- Clear data in output tabs before writing. This stops the problem of
seeing data related to the previously selected object in the object
tree if you are not authorised to the newly selected object in the
tree.
- Fix bug where sorting by clicking in the column header for a table
wouldn't work correctly when the columns had been resequenced by
dragging (Johnathan James).
Other
----- Use smaller icons to indicate sort sequence in tables.
- Cleanup handling of the SQL entry area.
- No longer print error message in the log if a JDBC driver isn't
available.
1.1final1
========
Bug Fixes
--------- Fix for error when displaying catalogs/schemas when
using jTDS 4 and above.
- Fix column privileges for MySQL.
1.1final
========
Enhancements
------------ Allow retrieval of all data types from SQL
results.
- Allow for JDBC drivers that return null
for DatabaseMetaData.getTableTypes().
Bug Fixes
--------- Fix bug where the "Start of Line Comment"
characters weren't recognized when executing
multiple SQL statements.
- When the "ResultSet Output Type" is changed
for a session don't attempt to change the output
type for existing ResultSet output panels in
that session.
- When "New Session" settings are changed don't
change settings for existing sessions.

1.1rc2
======
Enhancements
------------ Add default catalog selection to popup menu
- Add plugin class path to application dump.
- Allow for some drivers that don't return 'guest'
as a schema for Microsoft SQL and Sybase.
- Catalogs and Schemas tabs added to the session
node.
- Catalogs and schemas added to session dump.
- Drivers and Aliases windows can now be closed.
Bug Fixes
--------- Fix shell script to work with Cygwin.
- Fix NullPointerException when changing output
type for result sets in New Session Properties
dialog.
- Fix Copy cmd in tables so that if only a single
column selected it doesn't put all the rows on one
line.
- Make tree node refresh work.
- Fix line wrapping in multiple line labels.
- Allow for spaces in %CLASSPATH% in
squirrel-sql.bat (again).
- Save and restore current catalog, transaction
isolation and auto-commit settings when
executing the Session/Reconnect commmand.
1.1rc1
======
Enhancements
------------ Information windows (such as Help) can now be moved
outside of the main window.
- Add home toolbar button to the HTML Viewer.
- Fix Refresh in HtmlViewer.
- Change icons for commit/rollback. The old icons were
too similar and confused people.
- Add Proxy settings to Application Preferences.
- Add file sizes into SQuirreL Logs dropdown.
- Sort the driver names in dropdown box in a
case-insensitive manner.
- Make all windows resizeable.
- Add Refresh button to HTLM Viewer toolbar.
- Add FAQ to the Help menu.
- Added "Install Default Drivers" menu option which will
copy driver definitions from the default drivers file to
the drivers list.
- Add SAPDB, DB2 and PointBase to default drivers.
- Add HSQL to list of default drivers (Glenn Griffin).
- Cleanup example URLs for many of the default drivers (Glenn Griffin).
- Add toolbar to HTML Viewer with back, forward and close buttons.
- Documentation updated.

- Allow Squirrel to be run from directories other than the current

directory (Tim Shadel).
- Treat Types.OTHER columns as strings when displaying data.
- Add plugins location to plugin summary dialog.
- Add plugins location to application dump.
- Create Windows shortcut in installer.
- Make shell script executable in installer.
- Add icons for program shortcuts (Greg Mackness).
- Add an icon to the main window (Greg Mackness).
- The name of the item selected in the object tree will
be displayed in the statusbar.
- Remove unnecessary borders on UI components.
- Add jTDS to list of default drivers.
- The "Start of line comment" characters can now be
specified in preferences instead of just using '--'.
Bug Fixes
--------- Reload Metal Look and Feel when first loading
SQuirreL so that the "Blue" theme is used.
- Position focus to the text area when first displaying
the HTML viewer window.
- Stop driver maintenance window from resizing when jars
added/removed.
- Improve error handling when loading drivers and aliases.
- Incorrect error message was displayed in View Help
command (Glenn Griffin).
- Fix Nullpointer exception in HTML viewer under JDK1.3.
- CLOB/BLOB columns weren't handled correctly on metadata and
Content tabs.
- The line/column number displayed for the SQL entry area
now starts from 1,1 not 0,0
- Make multiple line label use the same font as static text controls not
editable text controls.
- Links in the Help file now work (Victor Ott).
- Fix deadlock when viewing logs.
- Add missing "contributors" file for About Box.
Plugin API
---------- Move metadata methods to metadata classes.
Other
----- Add build directory to source distribution.
- Don't display icons in menus.
- Cleanup ResultSetMetaData handling.
- Make the installation window resizeable.
1.1beta6
========
Enhancements
------------ Run View Logs in a thread.
- Doubleclick in the memory status panel will now run garbage collection.
- Add Mckoi and Think SQL drivers to the default drivers.
- Add menu item allowing reconnection to the database.
- Add a "Row Count" tab to the Tables tabbed folder.

- Add a "Status" tab to the database node in the object tree.

- Can now select directories as well as jars in the extra class path tab
in driver maintenance.
- Errors are now displayed in the sessions message panel in red (Victor Ott).
- Rewrite of the object tree code.
- Show both schemas and catalogs in the object tree for databases that
support both.
- Added "Help", "Change Log" and "Licence" options to Help menu for SQuirreL
and for plugins.
- Documentation updated.
- Allow for errors in ResultSet.getBoolean() implementation.
- Axion and Mimer added to default drivers
- Added "Dump Application" and "Dump Session" options to menus to aid in
debugging issues with different drivers and databases.
Bug Fixes
--------- Fix bug where closing the "New Session" properties dialog would make the
object tree tabbed panel change back to the first tab.
- Fix "too tall" About Box under the first beta of JDK1.4.1
- When output type (text or table) is changed all existing panels are now update
d.
- Expand first level of object tree for JDBC/ODBC bridge when session
first started.
- Handle sorting by different data types in tables.
- Fix XMLBeanWriter to transparently handle arrays of strings.
- Fix error handling in data types display.
Plugin API
---------- Add ability to
- Move APIs from
- Add API to add
- Add API to add
- Add API to add

load jars in a plugins lib directory.

ISession to their own classes.
nodes to the object tree.
tabs to the object tree details panel.
options to the object tree popup menu.

1.1beta5
========
Enhancements
------------ Added keyboard accelerators to "Close all SQL Result Tabs" and
"Close all SQL Result Windows" menu options.
- Display more information about the executing query on the
execution panel.
- Split query execution times into "sql execution" and "building
- Add handling of blob, clob, binary, varbinary and longvarbinary
columns.
- Allow for some combinations of the JDBC/ODBC bridge and MSSQL
that give duplicate table types from the database metadata.
- Add "Close Session" option to Session menu.
- Add "View Logs" item to the Windows menu.
- Set maximum allowed width for the Window menu.
- Added Sunopsis XML JDBC driver and Microsoft MSSQL JDBC driver (Ken Arway)
to default drivers.
- Display session name in Session Properties Dialog to
differentiate it from another sessions dialog.
- Log any error other than an SQL error to the logger
when user executes SQL.

- Consolidated the plethora of "meta data" output type settings into a

single setting.
- Main window toolbar is now floatable.
- Using icons from the Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) project.
Bug Fixes
--------- Fix bug where changing "autocommit" during a session wasn't
recognized.
- Limit rows checkbox wasn't updated when session properties
changed.
- Fix incorrect row count in Info tab for a table.
- Add error handling to result set metadata displays.
- Don't show closed property dialogs in Windows menu.
- Directory list combo boxes now only show required file types.
- Fix option in Windows batch file not to show command window.
- Show decimal positions in column data when required.
- Show <null> when column data is null instead of an empty string.
- Fixed metadata problems with the JDBC/ODBC bridge.
1.1beta4
========
Bug Fixes
--------- Correctly size the java Classpath listbox.
- Indicate whether driver can be loaded whenever the driver classpath is changed
- Add missing batch file (addpath.bat) to distribution.
1.1beta3
========
Enhancements
------------ Add Sybase drivers to list of default drivers.
- Windows batch file now uses Java in %JAVAHOME% if it is defined else
uses the current path.
- Windows batch file now loads all jars from /lib directory.
- Unix shell script now uses Java in $JAVAHOME if it is defined else
uses the current path (Sergio Ballestrero).
- Unix shell script now loads all jars from /lib
directory (Sergio Ballestrero)
- Commit/Rollback options added to the session menu.
- Session Sheet can show/hide its toolbar.
- Aliases and Drivers can show/hide their toolbars.
- Aliases and Drivers windows can now be resized.
- The toolbar in the main window can now be hidden.
- Multiple jars can now be specified for an SQL driver.
- You can now search a jar in the classpath for a JDBC driver.
- Row count is only shown on the Table Info tab if "Show Row Count"
is specified in session properties.
- New "Refresh Row Count" button on the Table Information tab.
- Updated to use Apache log4j 1.2.
- The log file is now rotated.
- Log files are now written to the logs subirectory within user home.
- When resizing a session window the SQL results now gets any extra space.
- Error Dialog controls have better sizing.
- The default Metal Look and Feel now has a blue theme (Karsten Lentzsch)

- Error message dialog can now show the stack trace if available.
- New status bar in main window.
- SQL settings moved from the General tab in the Global Preferences
dialog to its own SQL tab.
- Nullable, Searchable and boolean columns in Data Types display
now show meaningful text.
- The squirrel-sql.jar file is now executable.
- Function and keyword lists moved out of the main metadata tab and
placed in their own tabs (David MacLean).
- The DATA_TYPE column in the metadata tab now has a descriptive entry
as well as the numeric code (David MacLean).
- Now shows catalogs in object tree for more DBMS's.
- Can now select the current catalog via a dropdown for those DBMS's
that support catalogs.
- Now shows table hierarchies if the JDBC driver supports them (Henner Zeller).
Bug Fixes
--------- Show main window scrollbars at startup if tool windows are offscreen.
- Don't show error dialog until it is properly positioned.
- All SQL statements now get saved into the history.
- Load images correctly in framework classes.
- Use correct background color in Splash Screen and About Box to match
the graphic.
1.1beta2
========
Bug Fixes
--------- Windows batch file now allows for spaces in the classpath (Bruno Haas).
- Windows batch file now passes the -classic flag to the VM to stop
plugins looking for files in the "Colin Bell" or "Johan Compagner"
directories instead of the plugins private directory.
- "Torn off" SQL results windows are now closed when the session is
closed.
- Unix shell script now has correct line terminators.
- QueryTokenizer improperly parsed strings with quotes on multiple lines
and caused SQLException (Todd Larsen).
- Application Settings dialog now has a more sensible width under JDK1.4.
- If no alises defined then the Alises dropdown has a sensible width
under JDK1.4.
- If Aliases dropdown is empty when adding the first one to it then make
the new one the selected one.
- When adding aliases/drivers then select the newly added one in the list.
- When deleting aliases/drivers then ensure that another one selected
in the list.
- longvarchars will now be displayed instead of <null> (Johan Compagner)
- JDBC drivers reloaded when they have been modified through the
maintenance window.
- Keeping the state when refreshing the tree works now (Johan Compagner)
Enhancements
------------ Now showing all columns in meta data displays.
- Drop table menu item on the ObjectTree (Johan Compagner)
- Full column data can be displayed in a popup window if you double click on
it (Johan Compagner)
- If only one cell selected in table when pressing copy then no header

will be appended. (Johan Compagner)

- Icon shown for drivers that are loaded or not (Johan Compagner/Henner Zeller)
- TableSorting by clicking column headers (Johan Compagner)
- Escape now cancels Connection Dialog.
Other
----- Licence for the client application changed from GPL to LGPL.
- JDK1.4 specific code now called through reflection so application
can be compiled using JDK1.3.
1.1beta1
========
- Plugin architecture added.
- Now under JDK1.4 have option to scroll tabbed pane tabs
rather than wrap them.
- Look and Feel functionality moved to a plugin.
- The results of queries can be displayed in multiple tabs and these tabs
can be "torn off" (Johan Compagner).
- Can now enter execute multiple SQL statements (Johan Compagner).
- The message panel is now resizable (Johan Compagner).
- New "Info" tab on SQL query results.
- No longer try to load blob fields from SQL Result set.
- View SQL data entry caret line/column in status bar
- Removed control characters from SQL Result tab headings.
- The characters -- at the beginning of a line of SQL will turn it into a commen
t.
- Properties windows are now modeless.
- Driver and Alias maintenance windows are now modeless.
- Aliaes and Drivers tool window now resized when Look and Feel changed (if requ
ired).
- Now displaying SQL Error Code and State when an SQL error occurs.
- Can now select the Font for the SQL entry area.
- New "Show Native SQL" item in Session menu.
- "New Session" options moved from Global Prefernces dialog to new Session Prope
rties dialog.
- New options on the session menu - Close all result tabs and close all Result w
indows.
- New option on the Windows menu - Close all sessions.
- Bring aliases/driver window to front if action requested.
- New application argument -noplugins which will run SQuirreL without
any plugins being loaded.
- Undo/redo support now added to the SQL entry area (Johan Compagner).
- Copying SQL results now includes the column headings (Johan Compagner).
- New "Copy as HTML" option for SQL results (Johan Compagner).
- Bug fixed in About Box where the thread that updates the memory status
continued updating when the About Box was not being displayed.
- Dialogs have been cleaned up.
- Apache log4j is used for the logging subsystem.
- JDBC debug can be specified in the global preferences.
- New application argument allows you to override the user settings
directory. E.G. -settingsdir=c:\my-squirrel-settings
- Stored proc column information now available.
- Connection window is now modeless.
- SQL execution and object tree expansion now run in a separate thread so
that the user interface is still responsive (Johan Compagner).
- Row count is now available on the Info tab for a table.
- Meta data is available for the results of SQL execution.
- Replaced the JDOM library with NanoXML.

1.0 final2
===============================
Bug Fixes
--------- Put up a new splash screen that worked with JDK1.4
The following fixes were actually done in 1.0final1 but I forget
to update this file.
- Removed wrong path separator used in the install script for
<instdir>\plugins\lafs and <instdir>\plugins\skins which
didn't work under Unix.
- Got working with Sybase/jConnect.
1.0 final
===============================
Bug Fixes
------------ Handle gracefully the errors caused by JDBC drivers that require a more
recent version of the JDK than the one that Squirrel SQL is being run on.
- Popup menus are now correctly positioned under JDK1.2
Enhancements
------------ I'm now using the IzPack Java installer from
http://www.izforge.com/izpack
- Thanks to Greg Mackness, Squirrel SQL now has a decent splash screen.
1.0 beta7
===============================
Bug Fixes
------------ Allow for AbstractMethodErrors in DatabaseMetaData function calls.
- Allow for null ResultSet objects to be returned from DatabaseMetaData
function calls.
Enhancements
------------ Add edit popup menu to tablular output.
- Make main window area scrollable.
- Now uses version 1.1 of the Skin Look and Feel.
- Added PostgreSQL JDBC Driver to default drivers file.
Changes
------- A lot of code cleanup.
1.0 beta6
===============================
Bug Fixes
------------

- New sessions didn't take into account the "SQL Limit Rows"
setting from the "New Session" Application Settings tab. It
always defaulted to true.
- The hourglass cursor was shown after the main window was created.
- If the preferences positioned the main window (or aliases/drivers
tool windows) to a position on the screen only visible under a
high resolution (EG 1024X768) and you then changed the display
resolution to one under which the window could not be seen then
when Squirrel-SQL was started the window could not be seen.
- If you tried to maintain a driver with a Driver JAR file that
didn't exist an error dialog that couldn't be dismissed was
displayed.
- Errors that occured for metadata information (such as data types) didn't
always display in the message area.
- Errors in SQL Driver Maintenance weren't always displayed.
- If invalid data for the data type in a column (E.G. blanks in a numeric)
were found in metadata information (such as data types) then no further
information was displayed.
Enhancements
------------ User name now displayed in the title for a session window.
- Logging is now done to a text file (squirrel-sql.log) in the user
perferences directory instead of to standard output.
- You can now drop a Look and Feel implementation (see www.javatoo.com
for examples of Look and Feel implementations) into the /plugins/lafs
directory within the application directory and have it selectable from
the "Look and Feel" dropdown on the General tab of the Global
Preferences dialog.
Changes
------- Global Preferences option is now on the File menu.
1.0 beta5
===============================
Bug Fixes
------------ If a connection failed to open the error wasn't always displayed.
- If an image couldn't be found for an Action the application wouldn't load.
- Changing the class name of a driver wouldn't always take effect until
Squirrel-SQL was restarted.
- The session properties dialog is now correctly positioned on screen.
- The Class Loader used for the JDBC drivers wasn't searching for classes
correctly.
Enhancements
------------ The number of rows in a table can be displayed in the object tree. This
is controlled by a new session setting.
- The Aliases and Drivers lists are now in their own windows.
- A "Connect To" dropdown has been added to the toolbar.
- The SQL tab in the Application Preferences dialog has been split into
two tabs; global settings that apply to all open sessions and a Default
tab that applies to new sessions.
- If the Look and Feel is changed it is not shown until the application
is restarted. Not all components are rendered correctly if the Look and
Feel is changed on the fly.

- The System Status dialog has been merged with the About Box.
- New global property - Show Tooltips.
1.0 beta4
===============================
Bug Fixes
--------- When changing an existing alias the default URL from the driver was
displayed rather than the URL associated with the alias.
- Resolved inconsistent handling of catalogs and schemas.
Enhancements
------------ Now supports Skin Look and Feel Themes from http://www.L2FProd.com.
- Merged the Driver Class dropdown and text field on the Driver Maintenance
dialog into one dropdown control.
- Drivers dropdown in Alias Maintenance dialog is now sorted.
1.0 beta3
===============================
Bug Fixes
--------- Only issue rollback/commit when closing a session if AutoCommit is false.
- Fixed bug where incorrect alias/driver selected in listbox if an
alias/driver had its name changed or one was deleted.
Changes
------- JDBC driver jar files can now be specified dynamically.
- Can now specify commit/rollback when closing session. Previously
defaulted to rollback.
- Added UDT information to object tree.
- If text is selected in the SQL entry field then only that text
is executed as SQL.
- Width of the panel holding the aliases and drivers is now saved and
restored.
- Display the name of the driver in the connection dialog rather than
the class name of the driver.
- Added MMMySQL JDBC Driver to default drivers file.
- Row type output (such as the metadata or the SQL results panels) now
defaults to a JTable instead of the text output.
- Doubleclicking in drivers listbox will maintain the currently selected driver.
- Doubleclicking in aliases listbox will open the currently selected alias.
- Added Commit and Rollback menu and toolbar options.
1.0 beta2
===============================
- Modified to allow for DBMS's that don't support either catalogues or
schemas.
- Modified to get around issue with InstantDB (3.13) returning "TABLES" for
MetaData.getTableTypes instead of "TABLE" and "SYSTEM TABLE".
- Added InstantDB Driver to default drivers file.
- When retrieving information about a tables privileges an incorrect
index into a resultset was being used.
- When lines were added to the message panel no new line character was

added to the end of a line.

- Fixed bug where only SQL statements that generated a ResultSet were
written to the history dropdown.
- Added System Status dialog to the Help menu.
- Fixed Cascade option on Windows menu.
1.0beta1
===============================
- First beta release.