0.7 released

Roy van der Kuil — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:01:24 -0000

We are proud to release version 0.7. It comes with a lot of bug fixes/enhancements and new features. We feel the application is getting ready for a 1.0 release where documentation and api (development) stability is more garanteed.

Improvements include:
* added settings command to change settings and set variables
* more tab completion
* dump/read (import/export) command is improved. Tested for files larger then 4GB in size.

We hope you enjoy this release as much as we do.

Roy van der Kuil
SQLShell Developer

sqlshell 0.6.1

Roy van der Kuil — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:58:19 -0000

Please use this version since 0.6 introcuded a last minute bug that whas caused by code cleanup.

sqlshell 0.6 released

Roy van der Kuil — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:26:05 -0000

The Internet: december 22 2008
After quite a busy time and finally some holidays we managed to get the sixth
release of sqlshell out the doors. It doesn't come with a lot of new features
(at least not as many as I would have hoped) but the overall stability and speed
should have improved a lot. This release is mostly a 'switching toolkit' release,
since it now can run on both jcurses (http://jcurses.sf.net) and charva (http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/Screenshots.html).
We do feel Charva has fixed a lot of the multithreading issues we came across when using jcurses.

Some new features of 0.6 include:
* Added tab completion for connect @
* Add description of column in 'show tables having <column>' command
* Add persistent history (thanks to the work of vladimiralarcon _at_ yahoo _dot_ com)
And bugfixes:
* Mysql case sensitivity fixes
* Tab completion case sensitive fix (For example jo<tab> -> Job)

See the Changelog file for a complete list.

I would like to thank Stefan Rotman for his time spent in the last couple of months on
SQLShell. I know he has been busy but he still managed to find some time to improve SQLShell.

Hopefully there is more to come in the next release. Please do send me your ideas,
bugs and missing features. In the meantime please make sure
you still have the same amount of fingers when starting next year.

Kind regards,
Roy

SQLShell 0.5 released

Roy van der Kuil — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:38:19 -0000

The SQLShell team is proud to announce the 0.5 release. A lot of work has gone into implementing the possibility to abort a running query. If a query can be aborted is mostly up to the jdbc implementation you are using. Aborting a query can be done by pressing 'ctrl+a'. My main target database platform used to be Oracle, which explains why the previous versions where mostly targetted at Oracle compatibility. A month ago I started using Mysql for a personal project and as a result I had to add some fixes to SQLShell for it to be usefull in Mysql. I hope, with these fixes, to have addressed more issues for other database vendors.

New features include:
* Allow for commands to start in the background, this will allow to continue reading keyboard input (currently used to abort commands)
* Added help to keyboard mappings (pageup/down/end/home, etc)
* BUGFIX: Added fixes for mysql, mysql uses lowercase tablenames where oracle uses uppercase. Currenlty SQLShell tries to figure out which one to use automatically
* timestamp display fixes
* Tabcompletion improvements (fixed deadlock caused by an error in regular expressions api from java)
* Improved navigation in edit mode (home/end). It should be more intuitive and usefull now
* Removed border of one character to maximize the usage of the screen

Also some good news from the development department. Another person has shown interest into working on SQLShell. He has some nice ideas, like persistant history over sessions. For more ideas please see the discussion forum. We hope to be able to include his fixes for the next version.

As far as 1.0 is concerned. There is no releaseplan for a full (API) stable release yet. But we are working hard to make/keep SQLShell releases as stable as possible for daily production work.

Kind regards,
Roy

SQLShell releases version 0.4

Roy van der Kuil — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:48:04 -0000

januari 24, 2008 The INTERNET - The SQLShell team is proud to announce the 0.4 release. We feel this release has made great progress at becoming a full featured sql shell. A lot of work went into improving tab completion to allow you to type as little as possible. Still a lot more ideas to limit the number of keystrokes exist. We hope to address (some of) them in the next 0.5 release.

New features include:
* Improved speed for displaying large( >200 <20000 rows) query results
* Fix display of time in date column (at least for oracle)
* Improved overall tab comnpletion
* Added tabcompletion for:
* desc
* execute batch command
* show
* group by (limited support for now)
* order by (limited support for now)
* allow enter in pwd field to 'ok' data
* fix in replace ~/ with users home dir in spool

We would also like to take the change to explain why this is still a 0.x release. This is not because it will crash your database (although we never garantee it won't :)) but mostly because the command api is far from stable. Every new release thus far has seen some small changes in it's API. Porting commands hasn't been really difficult but we feel that when version 1.0 will be shipped the command API needs to be stable.

We really hope you enjoy this new release as much as we do.

Last but not least we want to whish one of the developers of SQLShell the best of luck with his new challenge at the "Mimeistry's School of Ministering Arts". We still hope he finds some time to send in patches and or new features.

SQLShell 0.3 released

Roy van der Kuil — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:37:40 -0000

THE INTERNET - With pride and joy we announce the 0.3 release of SQLShell. With this release SQLShell grows towards maturity even more :)
The main focus for the 0.3 release are usability improvements, making it even more of a joy to use this SQL client.
The most important improvements include:
* Database connection; The focus on the connection dialog is more intuitive now, and it's possible to connect through command line arguments.
* Improved DESC command; This supports tab completion now, plus it shows usuable information about a table now, instead of just table names :)
* Improved TAB completion

We hope you'll explore the wonderfull world of SQLShell.

sqlshell 0.2 released

Roy van der Kuil — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:24:16 -0000

The internet. We are happy to announce the release of version 0.2 of sqlshell (or as some say sqlheaven). Dispite it's version number (0.2) it is already a very usable and stable version with lots of features added and bugs fixed since 0.1. I won't name all, but here is a short list of what has changed:
- Search in history (for example by entering '/query' to make the current command the last command with query in it)
- Show tables (show a list of tables that is available for querying)
- Make columns in select query fit the max result with instead of the max column width
- improved editing of sql commands
- added help

Initial release

Roy van der Kuil — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:26:46 -0000

august 30, 2007.
Today the initial release of a powerful sql shell client is released. It's goal is to make sql hacking in a command line like environment as easy as possible. To many times there is only a text based connection available and most sql clients just aren't powerful enough to match the need.

This client makes it possible and by using java JDBC it is possible to use this client with nearly every database server out there. Of course new feature requests and bug reports are welcome so that this client can evolve over time and my and your sql hacking fun can begin.

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