Here is a list of the main features that MR3 will include:
- SQL Server 2005/2008 support: SQL Server is the fastest growing commercial database (according to Gartner) and the most popular database on Windows. We have received numerous requests to add support for it. Just like Oracle and MySQL, SQS will be natively supported. Expect the full depth of SQS physical features to be supported.
- ODBC: if you need to connect to an (natively) unsupported database, or have a quick prototype implemented in some other database than Oracle, MySQL, SQS then you can use ODBC to import it as a ModelRight model. MR3 will be able to reverse engineer/forward engineer/database sync with any ODBC compliant database. While ODBC doesn’t have the deep support for physical details of a database, tables, columns, indexes, primary and foreign constraints will be supported (ODBC-driver dependent). So far, our tests with Firebird and PostgreSQL look very good.
- Oracle 11g and MySQL 6.x – bring Oracle and MySQL support to the latest versions.
- Diagram navigator – a bird’s eye view of a diagram. This will be a tremendous help with large diagrams. It shows you a scaled down version of the current diagram so one can see exactly where is positioned in the diagram and quickly move around and zoom the diagram.
- Improved Print Dialog - with the ability to select specific pages to print.
- Alias Types - define an alias for a builtin datatype
There may be additional, smaller improvements as well.
We will continue to let you know about the MR3 progress in this forum.
Please let us know of any questions, comments, features that you might want to see in MR3, etc. We’re trying to get a beta release soon.
Thanks
Scott Reynolds
Senior Technical Support
ModelRight, Inc.