For those out there who might be interested (which I assume are not really that many): I'm currently in the process of fixing all bugs submitted so far and adding some minor features. I'm aiming for releasing a bug fix release 1.21 RC3 when this is done. No clue yet when this will be the case, but I hope it won't take too long.
Major changes will be left for the next major release which is probably going to take a significant time before being released as I'm currently quite busy in my job, so there is not much time left to spend on SQLTools++, unfortunately.
Regards,
Randolf
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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Hi Randolf!
I'm one of those "not really that many" who is interested in your work on SQLTools++. I appreciate your effort to maintain and improve such a nice Oracle tool.
I want to suggest one improvement for the next release. I already suggested it here to Aleksey Kochetov, original SQLTools author; so I cite that post:
Use of DBA_% views instead of ALL_% views
Currently, SQLTools uses views ALL_OBJECTS, ALL_TABLES, ALL_SOURCE etc. for Objects List and DDL extraction. But when user connected doesn't have any privileges on some objects in target schema (e.g. developer on production db), these objects don't appear in objects list. This greatly reduces the power of SQL Tools in such environment. It would be nice to use DBA_% views instead to see as much objects as possible.
On the other hand, there are environments where DBA_% views are not accessible to non-DBA users. So the best way IMHO is to have an option in Tools/Settings/Session which views to use. (Like it is in PL/SQL Developer for example).
Thank you for your feedback, it's always appreciated.
Actually this feature request has already been logged on the Sourceforge.net site of SQLTools++.
You can check it here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=220648&atid=1050080
Please feel free to go through the list there and submit any other features that you find useful and have not been logged so far.
Best Regards,
Randolf
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Hello,
I'm also one of those "not really that many" who is interested in SQLTools++, this is a really stable and easy to use tool (my prefered).
I would propose you to have a look at tora, this other GUI for Oracle, http://sourceforge.net/projects/tora/
that contains a nice session monitor that could help ;o)
Do you know oracle instant client
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html ? that's very usefull to quickly install a client, just copy the files in the same directory than sqltools++ and its work !
It seems that it also permits to compile the application with the client libs ... like that there is no more need of any oracle client installation.
oracmd http://www.withdata.com/oracmd_news.html
already do that. What do you think about this for SQLTools ?
Regards
PAscal (grand.brun.63@wanadoo.fr)
Randolf!
You saved my job so far. Keep up the great work! Thank You!!
Hey! Thanks for this good oracle tools. It does all I need, and it's more fast and user friendly than toad and other tools. What about an icons restyle? Take a look at www.famfamfam.com, you'll find a good (free) icon set!
I've never used Toad, but I've used many free Oracle sql browsers (including the bloated Oracle SQL Developer) and this is by far the best of them. Thanks to Aleksey Kochetov and to you for keeping this tool up-to-date.
Simply a great PL/SQL development tool. I love it more than any. Just wondering if there is going to be a port to Linux, I know it's going to be a lot of work porting all the MFC and win32 but if it were, it would be brilliant.
Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated.
I see SQLTools++ as a simple and straightforward SQL frontend. It's much more convenient than SQL*Plus and doesn't require installation.
But I wouldn't actually recommend it for large scale team PL/SQL development, because I think there are tools out there that offer many more useful features regarding this particular task.
It's not free but I've used PL/SQL Developer in some large scale projects already and I think it's one of the best tools available for PL/SQL development.
It supports Microsoft SCC version control systems from within the tool and by using the CVS SCC or SVN SCC plug-in by PushOK software (a small russian software company) you can successfully use CVS or SVN directly from within PL/SQL developer. I've used these tools and it really worked quite well for a team of several PL/SQL developers.
Regarding the port to Linux: One should say never, but it's quite unlikely that I'm going to be the one for this task.
I'm hardly able to maintain SQLTools++ in my spare time so there absolutely no time left for such a big project.
Have you ever attempted to use SQLTools++ using the WINE emulator under Linux?
very good!
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