Valentina Studio usually uses the most fresh SQLite engine available. Additionally we compile it using few popular extensions. We have expose these built-in extensions in the dialog “Extensions” of a SQLite database. Note, that you can add more if you needed with the help of this dialog.
We have made final switch from Drizzle to MariaDB client library for mySQL plugin and mySQL datasource in Valentina Reports.
Thank to this step we have got C client library with totally same API as native mySQL client library and therefore:
a) Implement support of few results of few commands executed at once.
b) Resolve trouble of some users which have passwords in old format.
In v5.2 of Valentina Studio we have added JSON format of dumps of Database and Table. In SQL Editor’s result pane you can choose Export -> JSON also.
Now you can execute in the SQL Editor few SELECT commands at once, separated by ‘;’ and you will get few result TAB-panels opened automatically. One panel for each result.
This feature works for mySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite starting with v5.2 of Valentina Studio
This is for working with native Valentina databases.
Read this article in the Valentina WIKI about how to work with objects Database -> Tables -> Fields that have hierarchy of Collation Settings.
The Valentina team is happy to announce that Valentina Studio supports MariaDB, the drop-in replacement for MySQL from Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL.
One use of 4.9 Valentina ADK have told us that many his users have databases on DVD in 4,9 format. So if he will try change his app to Valentina 5.0, then how users will be able work with this read-only databases?
To resolve this, we have improve Valentina engine. Now it will make attempt to work with read-only databases in older format as is, without conversion.
Important to note, that this will work fine for 5.x engine opening 4.x databases.
Valentina Studio 5.1 is now available for free through Mac App Store. Valentina Studio 5.1 was recently released with support for SSH, making it your best choice for working with virtual hosting services and the databases you may have stored there.
Valentina Studio on the Mac App Store also has in-app upgrading to Valentina Studio Pro for your convenience.
Have gone month after 5.0 release, and we ship one more release – 5.1.
This release adds three major features:
We make one more feature to be FREE in Valentina Studio!
You can now create and SAVE diagrams in Valentina Studio (free) 5.1. Up to now you could only create them but not save, because this was PRO feature.
Besides, you can do reverse engineering – i.e. add existed database objects to diagram. Note, that Navicat Modeler from the Mac App Store, asks 70$ only for this feature.
Forward-engineering remains as feature of Valentina Studio Pro.
Some fixes in ODBC code, to resolve issues in work with ODBC driver of Pervasive database.
Details you can read in Release Notes 5.1
We have discover that ODBC driver of FileMaker 12 have major bug. While it claims that can return the number of rows in recordset, driver just crashes on such request.
Workaround is not found so far …
A user have contact us with problem that Valentina Studio hangs on connect to his Pervasive database via ODBC.
We have found that Pervasive do not understand “WHERE false” construction. It works fine with e.g. “WHERE 1 = 0”.
So we fixing our code to avoid this “WHERE false”.
Usually mySQL servers are closed to access from external IPs. Instead mySQL users are used to connect to remote host using SSH tunnel and then connect to mySQL server like from localhost.
We have add into Valentina Studio support of SSH connects to remote hosts. It is clear that it can be used for any remote DB server: Valentina Server, mySQL or PostgreSQL.
Also we have to push SSH parameters into the connection string of Valentina Reports, so now reports can connect to e.g. remote mySQL server by SSH tunnel also. Read in WIKI.
After 5.0 release we have made the first attempt to submit Valentina Studio into Apple’s Mac App Store. As expected, it was reject with a couple of fair issues and one advice to hide all PRO features in the free edition of VStudio.
Step by step we have come to a new design. On the picture you can see how start page will looks for 5.1 version of Valentina Studio (MAS).
Since we was need to remove “Projects” section anyway, we have decide to put “in-app store” of Valentina Studio on the start page instead of section “Projects”.
If a user will do in-app purchase then PRO features will be enabled and become visible. The section “Projects” will be visible again on the start page.
In 5.0 Diagrams was a PRO feature, so was available in free version only in the demo mode: you could create and edit diagram, but you was not able save it for future use.
Working on submitting of Valentina Studio into Apple’s App Store, we was asked to remove from free version any such demo-features. We have decide instead remove it completely, open half of its functionality to free edition of VStudio. In 5.1 build of Valentina Studio you will be able
Disabled will be just forward-engineering, i.e. generation of SQL scripts to produce new schema objects and change existed.
Interesting to note, that a competing product in AppStore, asks in-app purchase 70$ for reverse-engineering. Valentina Studio 5.1 will give this for free. Enjoy 🙂