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Prevent SQL Injection Attacks and Data Breaches
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Macros – Display or hide the projects tabs
Within ER/Studio Data Architect, we have the option to view one tab for each opened project or to hide these tabs.
In this post, I’ll share a macro that allows us to toggle the display of project tabs.
Macros – Also add Data Security Information
This is the third post regarding the binding of custom properties to specific ER objects.
In this one, we’ll support some new ER objects (Models, Submodels, Business Data Objects) and we’ll filter the types of ER objects that can be bound to each Attachment Type.
Even more importantly, we’ll also integrate the Data Security Information so it can also be automatically bound to their relative ER Objects.
Macros – Add even more custom properties
This post follows the previous one, “Macros – Add custom properties to specific objects”, where we shared scripts to automatically bind Attachments to ER Objects.
In this one, we will share new versions of the different scripts that allow using shared Attachments for various types of ER Objects (instead of duplicating them for each ER Object), and also support Relationships and Views.
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Macros – Add custom properties to specific objects
Sometimes, you may need to specify custom properties for various objects such as Entities, Tables, Attributes, etc.
The macros I’ll be sharing in this post, allow us to:
– Export the attachments from the current project
– Import attachments from an Excel Workbook
– Bind the attachments to specific objects (Entities, etc.).
Macros – Import objects from a diagrams.net | draw.io XML file
A script that imports a particular diagrams.net XML file (formerly draw.io) including specific Data used to retrieve the properties required to create the Entity Relationship Diagram.
Announcing the General Availability of IDERA SQL Secure 4.4
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We are excited to announce the General Availability of DB PowerStudio 18.6!
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Announcing the General Availability of IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 6.2
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Macros – Colorize specific attributes
Using the data modeling features of ER/Studio Data Architect we can create automatic and customized data model diagrams. ER/Studio Data Architect provides functionality such as automatic layouts, custom colors and fonts for our objects, and relationship line control.
To make our model more attractive and easier to read, we can change the background, outline, and font colors along with the font type entities/tables, attributes/columns, views, and relationships in our data model. We can use specific colors and/or fonts to help us organize our data model.
In this blog post, I’ll share a macro which shows how to manage the colors from a script. With the macro, we can search for a string and colorize the attributes and columns which match the string.
SQL Safe Backup 9.2.2 General Availability
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SQL Defrag Manager 3.8 General Availability
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SQL Diagnostic Manager 12.3 General Availability
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SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL 8.9.5 General Availability
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How to adjust the Java heap size of DB Optimizer
DB Optimizer is a Java-based application designed to assist database administrators and developers in optimizing the performance of database systems.
If you are running long profiling sessions, open many different tabs, you may need to adjust the memory used by DB Optimizer to avoid out-of-memory errors.
Macros – Add or Remove the Relationships in the Submodels
ER/Studio Data Architect provides an important navigation feature called Submodels.
In this post, I’ll share a macro which can be used to add|remove the relationships to|from the submodels.
General Availability of Aqua Data Studio (ADS), version 23.1!
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How to adjust the Java heap size of DB Change Manager
DB Change Manager is a Java-based application designed for managing and tracking changes to databases.
If you compare 2 datasources with lots of objects, you may need to adjust the memory used by DB Change Manager to avoid out-of-memory errors.
Database Backup and Restores Drills in SQL Server
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Macros – Switch domains from one data dictionary to another one
In this post, I’ll be sharing a macro based on this sample, updated to switch the bindings for all the domains included in the source dictionary and available in the target data dictionary (with the same name). If there’s no domain with the same name in the target data dictionary, the domain binding will remain unchanged.
For instance, if you intend to replace the domain bindings from the local data dictionary with those included in an Enterprise Data Dictionary.