DB PowerStudio DBA Edition Releases

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DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - Multiplatform 19.0Major versionSep 2, 2025
Features

DB Optimizer 19.0

  • Enhances Tablespace compression for Oracle
    • Tablespace extraction now defaults to COMPRESS BASIC, offering improved performance and storage efficiency for schema export/import operations.
  • Introduces PostgreSQL function reporting
    • Report generation now includes support for PostgreSQL functions, improving visibility, documentation, and auditing in complex environments.
  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves role management in DB Optimizer
    • The DB Optimizer Users and Roles tab now supports seamless role modification, streamlining user and permission management, and enhancing security workflows.
  • Streamlines PostgreSQL query profiling
    • The Explain Plan in DB Optimizer now opens directly from the SQL tab in the profiling editor, enabling faster and more accurate performance tuning.
  • Clarifies Oracle data comparison
    • When comparing Live and Archive Oracle datasources in DB Optimizer, empty or null properties now display more clearly, improving report accuracy and eliminating misleading Not Found labels.

Rapid SQL 19.0

  • Enhances Tablespace compression for Oracle
    • Tablespace extraction now defaults to COMPRESS BASIC, offering improved performance and storage efficiency for schema export/import operations.
  • Introduces PostgreSQL function reporting
    • Report generation now includes support for PostgreSQL functions, improving visibility, documentation, and auditing in complex environments.
  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.

DB Change Manager 19.0

  • Enhances Tablespace compression for Oracle
    • Tablespace extraction now defaults to COMPRESS BASIC, offering improved performance and storage efficiency for schema export/import operations.
  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves MAXDOP formatting for index creation
    • Large numeric values for MAXDOP in DB Change Manager are now auto-formatted with commas, enhancing readability, reducing syntax errors, and improving compliance with SQL Server standards.
Fixes

DB Optimizer Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.
  • [Oracle] Resolves issues occurring when using COMPRESS functionality during a SQL extract.
  • [Oracle] Resolves an issue causing some users to receive an "Error in Execute Method" message when attempting to add a column to a table.
  • [PostgreSQL] Resolves a DB Optimizer issue preventing the Explain Plan from opening for a statement on the SQL tab of the Profiling Editor.

Rapid SQL All-Platforms 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.
  • [Oracle] Resolves issues occurring when using COMPRESS functionality during a SQL extract.
  • [PostgreSQL] Returns the reporting functionality for PostgreSQL functions.
  • [Oracle] Resolves an issue causing some users to receive an "Error in Execute Method" message when attempting to add a column to a table.
  • [Oracle] Resolves a Rapid SQL issue causing errors with Alter tables in Rapid SQL 18.8.1 and 18.9 using Oracle 19c Enterprise Edition.

DB Change Manager Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.
  • [MySQL] Resolves a Change Manager issue preventing to DDL Extract tab from displaying the PK constraint and clustered PK when generating the Schema Archive job.
  • [Oracle] Resolves issues occurring when using COMPRESS functionality during a SQL extract.
  • [Oracle] Resolves an issue causing some users to receive an "Error in Execute Method" message when attempting to add a column to a table.
  • [Oracle] Resolves a Change Manager issue causing properties with no value to appear as "Not Found" when comparing Live and Archive Oracle Datasource.
DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - for DB2 19.0Major versionSep 2, 2025
Features

DB Optimizer 19.0

  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves role management in DB Optimizer
    • The DB Optimizer Users and Roles tab now supports seamless role modification, streamlining user and permission management, and enhancing security workflows.

Rapid SQL 19.0

  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.

DB Change Manager 19.0

  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves MAXDOP formatting for index creation
    • Large numeric values for MAXDOP in DB Change Manager are now auto-formatted with commas, enhancing readability, reducing syntax errors, and improving compliance with SQL Server standards.
Fixes

DB Optimizer Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.

Rapid SQL All-Platforms 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.

DB Change Manager Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.
DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - for Oracle 19.0Major versionSep 2, 2025
Features

DB Optimizer 19.0

  • Enhances Tablespace compression for Oracle
    • Tablespace extraction now defaults to COMPRESS BASIC, offering improved performance and storage efficiency for schema export/import operations.
  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves role management in DB Optimizer
    • The DB Optimizer Users and Roles tab now supports seamless role modification, streamlining user and permission management, and enhancing security workflows.
  • Clarifies Oracle data comparison
    • When comparing Live and Archive Oracle datasources in DB Optimizer, empty or null properties now display more clearly, improving report accuracy and eliminating misleading Not Found labels.

Rapid SQL 19.0

  • Enhances Tablespace compression for Oracle
    • Tablespace extraction now defaults to COMPRESS BASIC, offering improved performance and storage efficiency for schema export/import operations.
  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.

DB Change Manager 19.0

  • Enhances Tablespace compression for Oracle
    • Tablespace extraction now defaults to COMPRESS BASIC, offering improved performance and storage efficiency for schema export/import operations.
  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves MAXDOP formatting for index creation
    • Large numeric values for MAXDOP in DB Change Manager are now auto-formatted with commas, enhancing readability, reducing syntax errors, and improving compliance with SQL Server standards.
Fixes

DB Optimizer Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.
  • [Oracle] Resolves issues occurring when using COMPRESS functionality during a SQL extract.
  • [Oracle] Resolves an issue causing some users to receive an "Error in Execute Method" message when attempting to add a column to a table.

Rapid SQL All-Platforms 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.
  • [Oracle] Resolves issues occurring when using COMPRESS functionality during a SQL extract.
  • [Oracle] Resolves an issue causing some users to receive an "Error in Execute Method" message when attempting to add a column to a table.
  • [Oracle] Resolves a Rapid SQL issue causing errors with Alter tables in Rapid SQL 18.8.1 and 18.9 using Oracle 19c Enterprise Edition.

DB Change Manager Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.
  • [Oracle] Resolves issues occurring when using COMPRESS functionality during a SQL extract.
  • [Oracle] Resolves an issue causing some users to receive an "Error in Execute Method" message when attempting to add a column to a table.
  • [Oracle] Resolves a Change Manager issue causing properties with no value to appear as "Not Found" when comparing Live and Archive Oracle Datasource.
DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - for SQL Server 19.0Major versionSep 2, 2025
Features

DB Optimizer 19.0

  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves role management in DB Optimizer
    • The DB Optimizer Users and Roles tab now supports seamless role modification, streamlining user and permission management, and enhancing security workflows.

Rapid SQL 19.0

  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.

DB Change Manager 19.0

  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves MAXDOP formatting for index creation
    • Large numeric values for MAXDOP in DB Change Manager are now auto-formatted with commas, enhancing readability, reducing syntax errors, and improving compliance with SQL Server standards.
Fixes

DB Optimizer Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.

Rapid SQL All-Platforms 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.

DB Change Manager Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.
DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - for Sybase 19.0Major versionSep 2, 2025
Features

DB Optimizer 19.0

  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves role management in DB Optimizer
    • The DB Optimizer Users and Roles tab now supports seamless role modification, streamlining user and permission management, and enhancing security workflows.

Rapid SQL 19.0

  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.

DB Change Manager 19.0

  • Improves DDL Extraction
    • The DDL Extract tab now correctly displays all primary key constraints, including clustered keys, ensuring complete and accurate schema archives.
  • Modernizes the user interface
    • The New Data Source wizard is updated for Windows 11, providing a more intuitive and visually-consistent experience.
  • Improves MAXDOP formatting for index creation
    • Large numeric values for MAXDOP in DB Change Manager are now auto-formatted with commas, enhancing readability, reducing syntax errors, and improving compliance with SQL Server standards.
Fixes

DB Optimizer Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.

Rapid SQL All-Platforms 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.

DB Change Manager Multiplatform 19.0

  • Reduces security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolves an issue causing a comma (,) to appear as the MAXDOP value after setting a number containing more than three digits when creating an index.
DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - for DB2 18.9Apr 8, 2025
Features

DBArtisan

  • Improved the Recent Project menu selection:
    • Increased the number of projects appearing in the Recent Projects. This increase improves the user experience by providing more choices for a quick selection.
  • Added the ability to keep NOT TRUSTED when modifying FK constraints:
    • DB2 for LUW users now can use the NOT TRUSTED function when modifying foreign key (referential) constraints. Trusted/not trusted context affects how your application server interacts with the database server.
  • Improved performance for DB2 users - this release of DBArtisan can take advantage of performance improvements for DB2 users with updates to:
    • 'tablespaces' now allows null values, allowing users to formulate queries easily to allow for calculations by not including empty rows.
    • 'tablespaces' are now partitioned by range, ensuring accurate data and avoiding bottlenecks.

DB Optimizer

  • Added the ability to keep NOT TRUSTED when modifying FK constraints:
    • DB2 for LUW users now can use the NOT TRUSTED function when modifying foreign key (referential) constraints. Trusted/not trusted context affects how your application server interacts with the database server.

Rapid SQL

  • Added the ability to keep NOT TRUSTED when modifying FK constraints
    • DB2 for LUW users now can use the NOT TRUSTED function when modifying foreign key (referential) constraints. Trusted/not trusted context affects how your application server interacts with the database server.
DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - for Oracle 18.9Apr 8, 2025
Features

DBArtisan

  • Improved the Recent Project menu selection:
    • Increased the number of projects appearing in the Recent Projects. This increase improves the user experience by providing more choices for a quick selection.
DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - for SQL Server 18.9Apr 8, 2025
Features

DBArtisan

  • Improved the Recent Project menu selection:
    • Increased the number of projects appearing in the Recent Projects. This increase improves the user experience by providing more choices for a quick selection.
DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - for Sybase 18.9Apr 8, 2025
Features

DBArtisan

  • Improved the Recent Project menu selection:
    • Increased the number of projects appearing in the Recent Projects. This increase improves the user experience by providing more choices for a quick selection.

DB Optimizer

  • Included enhanced Sybase optimization in DB Optimizer:
    • DB Optimizer users will notice updated profiling to accurately show the sessions.
DB PowerStudio DBA Edition - Multiplatform 18.9Apr 8, 2025
Features

DBArtisan

  • Improved the Recent Project menu selection:
    • Increased the number of projects appearing in the Recent Projects. This increase improves the user experience by providing more choices for a quick selection.
  • Added the ability to keep NOT TRUSTED when modifying FK constraints:
    • DB2 for LUW users now can use the NOT TRUSTED function when modifying foreign key (referential) constraints. Trusted/not trusted context affects how your application server interacts with the database server.
  • Improved performance for DB2 users - this release of DBArtisan can take advantage of performance improvements for DB2 users with updates to:
    • 'tablespaces' now allows null values, allowing users to formulate queries easily to allow for calculations by not including empty rows.
    • 'tablespaces' are now partitioned by range, ensuring accurate data and avoiding bottlenecks.

DB Optimizer

  • Added the ability to keep NOT TRUSTED when modifying FK constraints:
    • DB2 for LUW users now can use the NOT TRUSTED function when modifying foreign key (referential) constraints. Trusted/not trusted context affects how your application server interacts with the database server.
  • Included enhanced Sybase optimization in DB Optimizer:
    • DB Optimizer users will notice updated profiling to accurately show the sessions.

Rapid SQL

  • Added the ability to keep NOT TRUSTED when modifying FK constraints
    • DB2 for LUW users now can use the NOT TRUSTED function when modifying foreign key (referential) constraints. Trusted/not trusted context affects how your application server interacts with the database server.