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Active Query Builder ActiveX Edition updated

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:22:38 GMT

Visually building a query for a SQL Server database.

Active Query Builder ActiveX Edition is a visual query builder component which gives your end-users the ability to create complex SQL queries containing unions and sub-queries via an intuitive visual interface. Active Query Builder has complete support of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, SQLite and ANSI-92 SQL dialects and can be integrated with your application by setting a few properties or adding a few lines of code.

Updates in 1.17

Behavior changes

The Select checkbox is checked automatically now on adding a new expression.
Grouping is set automatically now on specifying the aggregate for a column now.
The numbers entered into condition for string fields are treated as literals.
The "=TRUE" condition is set automatically on adding a logical expression now. Useful on adding the EXISTS expressions.
Automatic alias assignment is made when user adds two or more columns with same name to the query. The warning message is shown when multiple columns with same name appear in sub-queries in result of user actions as this may lead to inconsistence in the calling sub-query.
The new UserMessage event is added. It is fired when the Query Builder is about to show the warning message to the user. You may override this behavior by handling this event.

SQL Syntax changes

SQLite: The component can load foreign keys now.
SQLite: The list of aggregates and built-in functions is filled now.
MS SQL Server: Fetching metadata object descriptions from database is made.
MySQL Query Properties form is redesigned.
MySQL: The SELECT [DISTINCT|ALL] options are added to the query properties dialog.

ActiveX Edition specific changes:

Nexus DB 3: Metadata fetching is made.
Language files are converted to UTF8. The component allows to read language files in both ANSI and UTF8 encoding now.
OLE drag-and-drop of text items to design area and criteria grid is made.

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. We put a lot of effort in to provide technologies which save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.

Active Query Builder Java Edition 1.4 released

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:23:08 GMT

Building a SQL query with Active Query Builder.

Active Query Builder Java Edition is a visual query builder component suite that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries with unions and sub queries via an intuitive visual interface. Active Query Builder Java Edition is a Swing-based Java bean component built using JRE 6 (1.6) and supports all modern Java development environments including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA.

Updates in 1.4

Behavior changes

The Select checkbox is checked automatically now on adding a new expression.
Grouping is set automatically now on specifying the aggregate for a column now.
The numbers entered into condition for string fields are treated as literals.
The "=TRUE" condition is set automatically on adding a logical expression now. Useful on adding the EXISTS expressions.
Automatic alias assignment is made when user adds two or more columns with same name to the query. The warning message is shown when multiple columns with same name appear in sub-queries in result of user actions as this may lead to inconsistence in the calling sub-query.
The new UserMessage event is added. It is fired when the Query Builder is about to show the warning message to the user. You may override this behavior by handling this event.

SQL Syntax changes

SQLite: The component can load foreign keys now.
SQLite: The list of aggregates and built-in functions is filled now.
MS SQL Server: Fetching metadata object descriptions from database is made.
MySQL Query Properties form is redesigned.
MySQL: The SELECT [DISTINCT|ALL] options are added to the query properties dialog.

About Active Database Software

Active Query Builder VCL Edition 1.17 updated

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:22:13 GMT

Building a SQL query with Active Query Builder VCL Edition.

Active Query Builder VCL Edition is a query builder component suite for Borland Delphi and C++Builder which gives your end-users the ability to create complex SQL queries containing unions and sub-queries via an intuitive visual interface. Active Query Builder has complete support of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Informix and more SQL dialects and can be integrated with your application by setting a few properties or adding a few lines of code.

Updates in 1.17

Behavior changes

The Select checkbox is checked automatically now on adding a new expression.
Grouping is set automatically now on specifying the aggregate for a column now.
The numbers entered into condition for string fields are treated as literals.
The "=TRUE" condition is set automatically on adding a logical expression now. Useful on adding the EXISTS expressions.
Automatic alias assignment is made when user adds two or more columns with same name to the query. The warning message is shown when multiple columns with same name appear in sub-queries in result of user actions as this may lead to inconsistence in the calling sub-query.
The new UserMessage event is added. It is fired when the Query Builder is about to show the warning message to the user. You may override this behavior by handling this event.

SQL Syntax changes

SQLite: The component can load foreign keys now.
SQLite: The list of aggregates and built-in functions is filled now.
MS SQL Server: Fetching metadata object descriptions from database is made.
MySQL Query Properties form is redesigned.
MySQL: The SELECT [DISTINCT|ALL] options are added to the query properties dialog.

VCL Edition specific changes:

Nexus DB 3: Metadata fetching is made.
Language files are converted to UTF8. The component allows you to read language files in both ANSI and UTF8 encoding now.
OLE drag-and-drop of text items to design area and criteria grid is made.

About Active Database Software

Active Query Builder for .NET updated

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:16:39 GMT

Visually building a query for a SQL Server database.

Active Query Builder for .NET is a visual query builder component suite that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries with unions and sub queries via an intuitive visual interface. Active Query Builder .NET Edition supports Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, Windows.Forms environment (100% Managed Code, No direct Win32 interop calls). The Active Query Builder ASP.NET Edition is designed for ASP.NET 2.0 environment, it provides a native and easy way to embed visual query building functionality into your ASP.NET projects. Active Query Builder ASP.NET Edition is based on Active Query Builder .NET (Windows Forms) Edition. Utilizing the same powerful SQL parsing engine, it's end-user Web interface has much in common with the ancestor.

Updates in v1.15

Behavior changes

The Select checkbox is checked automatically now on adding a new expression.
Grouping is set automatically now on specifying the aggregate for a column now.
The numbers entered into condition for string fields are treated as literals.
The "=TRUE" condition is set automatically on adding a logical expression now. Useful on adding the EXISTS expressions.
Automatic alias assignment is made when user adds two or more columns with same name to the query. The warning message is shown when multiple columns with same name appear in sub-queries in result of user actions as this may lead to inconsistence in the calling sub-query.
The new UserMessage event is added. It is fired when the Query Builder is about to show the warning message to the user. You may override this behavior by handling this event.

SQL Syntax changes

SQLite: The component can load foreign keys now.
SQLite: The list of aggregates and built-in functions is filled now.
MS SQL Server: Fetching metadata object descriptions from database is made.
MySQL Query Properties form is redesigned.
MySQL: The SELECT [DISTINCT|ALL] options are added to the query properties dialog.

WinForms .NET Edition specific changes:

Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Swedish and Turkish translations are added; Spanish and Polish translations are updated
Algorithm of automatic objects placement on the diagram pane is improved
Memory consumption and performance optimizations are made, memory leaks are eliminated

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. The company aims to provide technologies that save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.

Active Query Builder adds translations

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:30:00 GMT

Visually building a query for a SQL Server database.

.NET Edition V1.14.X adds Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, plus improved recursive CTE processing.

Updates in V1.14.X

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.1.261

Fixed parsing of derived tables without alias.
Fixed parsing of joins with parentheses.

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.1.259

Arabic (Saudi Arabia) [ar-sa] translation is added.
Swedish [sv] translation is added.
Bug with nested NOT expressions is fixed.

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.0.258

Recursive CTE processing is improved.

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.0.257

MySQL: CONVERT function is fixed.
PlainTextSQLBuilder formatting properties are correctly expanded now (in designer).

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.0.256

SqlTextEditor: Fixed exception when the suggestion window is visible on the control disposing.
MetadataEditor: Fixed exception when creating foreign keys with drag and drop.
Missing strings for "Collapse" and "Expand" commands are added into en.xml translation template file.
Source code examples are updated for compatibility with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010.

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.0.255

ToolboxManager slightly improved (will hasten installation a bit).
de, es, fr, it, pt-br translations updated.
DevExpress dependencies of ActiveDatabaseSoftware.DevExpressControlFactory.dll are updated to v10.2.3.0.
SqlTextEditor and ExpressionEditor: syntax coloring properties goes public.
Server version auto-detection is implemented.
Renaming of common table expressions (CTE) is implemented.
MetadataEditor: adding and editing of virtual objects and fields are implemented.
Images on tabs are implemented. To hide images use ShowTabIcons property.
To set custom images use TabsImageList property (must contain 4 images: main query, sub-query, derived table, common table expression (CTE)).
Oracle: loading of materialized views is fixed.
SqlTextEditor: fixed AVG function highlighting for MS Access syntax.
Firebird: DateAdd, DateDiff, Overlay, Position builtin functions are fixed.
MS Access: problem with '$' char in builtin function names is fixed.
Automatic alias generation is fixed.

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. The company puts a lot of effort in to provide technologies which save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.

Active Query Builder adds subscription

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:30:00 GMT

Visually building a query for a SQL Server database.

Professional Subscription includes WinForms and ASP.NET editions, plus advanced SQL text editor and expression editor.

Active Query Builder for .NET is a visual SQL query builder component that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries via an intuitive visual query building interface easily. Active Query Builder is also a SQL parser that can analyze and modify SQL queries programmatically. It can be embedded into a database administration tool or a user report generator, in a Windows application or Web page. Its user-friendly interface and unique query parsing and research capabilities provide optimized results and is sure to increase the number of potential users of your product.

Unlike the Standard Subscriptions that provide access to specific versions of Active Query Builder, the .NET Professional Subscription lets you to receive all future versions of Active Query Builder and other components for the .NET Framework. Active Query Builder .NET Professional Subscription currently includes:

Active Query Builder WinForms .NET Edition
Active Query Builder ASP.NET Edition
Advanced SQL Text Editor for WinForms .NET Edition
Advanced Expression Editor for WinForms .NET Edition
DevExpress controls User Interface for WinForms .NET Edition
Optional: Full Source Code

Updates in V1.13

Added - Oracle: global pipelined functions can be used in FROM clause.
Added - Professional edition of the component suite is introduced.
Added - New ExpressionEditor component available in the Professional edition only.
Added - New improved Metadata Editor (in all editions).
Improved - DevExpress dependencies of ActiveDatabaseSoftware.DevExpressControlFactory.dll are updated to v10.1.4.0.
Improved - OracleNativeMetadataProvider: Oracle.DataAccess.dll references updated to the latest version (v2.111.7.20).
Fixed - Expression Editor: exception when trying to insert a function using the context menu is fixed.
Fixed - Expression Editor: items in the function list were duplicating sometimes.

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. The company puts a lot of effort in to provide technologies which save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.

Virtual objects for Active Query Builder

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:23:00 GMT

Building a SQL query with Active Query Builder.

New version adds support for virtual database objects and fields.

Active Query Builder is a visual query builder component suite that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries with unions and sub queries via an intuitive visual interface. Active Query Builder Java Edition is a Swing-based Java bean component built using JRE 6 (1.6) and supports all modern Java development environments including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA.

The following editions are available:

Updates

New features in all editions:

New feature: Virtual database objects and fields. It allows to hide complex expressions and sub-queries behind ordinary fields and save derived tables as ordinary database objects. See the Virtual Objects And Fields source code sample for demonstration and details.
Now it's possible to add Common Table Expressions visually using the context menu item of the query building area.
MS SQL Server, Sybase: Support of the old-style TransactSQL outer join operators ("*=" and "*=") is made.

Additional new features in .NET and Java Editions:

Metadata and syntax providers for Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition are made.
Portuguese (Brazil) and French translations are added.

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. It aims to provide technologies which save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.

Active Query Builder .NET updated

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:06:00 GMT

Visually building a query for a SQL Server database.

Latest release adds support for VistaDB 4.0 and includes Brazilian Portuguese translation.

Active Query Builder .NET Edition is a visual query builder component suite that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries with unions and sub queries via an intuitive visual interface. Active Query Builder .NET Edition supports Visual Studio 2005, Windows.Forms environment (100% Managed Code, No direct Win32 interop calls).

The following editions are also available:

Updates in V1.11

Support VistaDB 4.0 is implemented
Portuguese (Brazil) translation is added
SQLite: The query properties form is implemented, Ability to fetch metadata from "attached" databases is added
Oracle: Retrieval of descriptions for objects and fields from the database is implemented
The LIKE criteria parsing is improved. Manually entered criteria like "LIKE John Doe" will be distinguished as "LIKE 'John Doe'"
Basic support for custom aggregate functions is implemented
MS SQL Server: Custom aggregate functions retrieval is made
MS SQL Server: Parsing of DatePart, DateName, DateDiff, DateAdd functions is fixed
MS SQL Server: Fixed parsing of fields with names matching datatype names, like "DateTime"
Oracle: Parsing of the SEED keyword is fixed
Oracle: Parsing of "CONNECT BY" and "START WITH" clauses sequence is fixed
Oracle and PostgreSQL: interval literals support is added
Firebird: List of reserved words is imported into the grammar
The INNER keyword can be omitted now in join specifications for Firebird and MS SQL Server via the InnerKeywordInLinks property
SQL dialects without databases support (like Oracle) didn't skip default schema from object names. Fixed now
Unambiguous reading metadata from XML generated by other AQB Editions (VCL/ActiveX, Java) is made
CROSS JOIN processing bug is fixed
New properties in the QueryBuilder and PlainTextSQLBuilder components: AsKeywordInExpressionAlias and AsKeywordInObjectAlias. You can use them to force the query builder to always show or omit AS keyword before aliases
The new events DatasourceFieldRemoving, DatasourceFieldRemoved are added to control removal of fields by unchecking them from the datasource field list
The new properties are made to control case sensitivity of metadata filter items: MetadataFilterItem.SchemaMaskCaseSensitive and MetadataFilterItem.ObjectMaskCaseSensitive
The new property is added to create aliases automatically based on alternate names: SelectListOptions.CreateColumnAliasesFromAltNames
API changes: MetadataFieldNameList class is renamed to MetadataQualifiedNameList

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. The company aims to provide technologies that save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.

Active Query Builder ActiveX/VCL updated

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:06:00 GMT

Screenshot from Active Query Builder VCL Edition.

Version 1.14 features improved parsing of LIKE criteria and basic support for custom aggregate functions.

Active Query Builder is a query builder component which gives your end-users the ability to create complex SQL queries containing unions and sub-queries via an intuitive visual interface. It features complete support for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, SQLite and ANSI-92 SQL dialects and can be integrated with your application by setting a few properties or adding a few lines of code.

Active Query Builder VCL Edition is designed for Borland Delphi and C++Builder.
Active Query Builder ActiveX Edition is a .NET-ready ActiveX.

The following editions are also available:

Updates in V1.14

General fixes and improvements:

SQLite: The query properties form is implemented, Ability to fetch metadata from "attached" databases is added.
Oracle: Retrieval of descriptions for objects and fields from the database is implemented.
The LIKE criteria parsing is improved. Manually entered criteria like "LIKE John Doe" will be distinguished as "LIKE 'John Doe'".
Basic support for custom aggregate functions is implemented.
MS SQL Server: Custom aggregate functions retrieval is made.
MS SQL Server: Parsing of DatePart, DateName, DateDiff, DateAdd functions is fixed.
MS SQL Server: Fixed parsing of fields with names matching datatype names, like "DateTime".
Oracle: Parsing of the SEED keyword is fixed.
Oracle: Parsing of "CONNECT BY" and "START WITH" clauses sequence is fixed.
Oracle and PostgreSQL: interval literals support is added.
Firebird, InterBase: List of reserved words is imported into the grammar.
The INNER keyword can be omitted now in join specifications for Firebird, Interbase and MS SQL Server via the InnerKeywordInLinks property.
SQL dialects without databases support (like Oracle) didn't skip default schema from object names. Fixed now.
Unambiguous reading metadata from XML generated by other AQB Editions (.Net, Java) is made.
CROSS JOIN processing bug is fixed.

AcitveX Edition fixes and improvements:

The new IFieldsListDescriptionColumnOptions.ShowLongDescription property is added to control which description will be shown in the Description column of the fields list:
- when it's False (default), the IMetadataField.ShortDescription is shown;
- when it's True, the IMetadataField.LongDescription is shown.
The new property is added to create aliases automatically based on alternate names: IActiveQueryBuilderX.SelectListOptions.CreateColumnAliasesFromAltNames.
The new properties are made to control case sensitivity of metadata filter items: IMetadataFilterItem.SchemaMaskCaseSensitive and IMetadataFilterItem.ObjectMaskCaseSensitive.
The new properties are made to force the query builder to show or omit the AS keyword in alias definition: IActiveQueryBuilderX.AsKeywordInExpressionAlias and IActiveQueryBuilderX.AsKeywordInObjectAlias.
The new demo is made to illustrate custom letadata loading in .NET and ASP.NET projects (CSCustomMetadataLoading).
The new property: IActiveQueryBuilderX.SQLSyntaxParams - can be used to control some server-specific syntax options.
The new event is added to change object's captions at the query building area: IActiveQueryBuilderX.OnCustomizeDatasourceCaption.

VCL Edition fixes and improvements:

The new TacFieldsListDescriptionColumnOptions.ShowLongDescription property is added to control which description will be shown in the Description column of the fields list:
- when it's False (default), the TacMetadataField.ShortDescription is shown;
- when it's True, the TacMetadataField.LongDescription is shown.
The new property is added to create aliases automatically based on alternate names: TacQueryBuilder.SelectListOptions.CreateColumnAliasesFromAltNames.
The new properties are made to control case sensitivity of metadata filter items: TacMetadataFilterItem.SchemaMaskCaseSensitive and TacMetadataFilterItem.ObjectMaskCaseSensitive.
The new properties are made to force the query builder to show or omit the AS keyword in alias definition. Use the TacQueryBuilder and TacBaseSQLBuilder AsKeywordInExpressionAlias and AsKeywordInObjectAlias properties for this purpose.
The new methods are added to get database schemes list:
- TacBaseSyntaxProvider.GetSchemaNames - for specific database servers;
- TacBaseMetadataProvider.GetSchemaNames - for generic ADO connections.
The new TacMSAccessSyntaxProvider.LoadLinkedTables property is made to control loading of linked database objects into metadata container.
The new events are added to control unchecking of a field from the datasource field list: OnDatasourceFieldRemoving and OnDatasourceFieldRemoved.
API changes: TacMetadataFieldNamesList class is renamed to TacMetadataQualifiedNameList.

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. The company aims to provide technologies that save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.