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Documentation: Aqua Data Studio 6.0 - New Features     HTML Documentation download, ZIP: ads-docs.zip (Size: 20MB) / ads-docs-no-shots.zip (Size: 368KB)
  Getting Started
  Installation
  JDBC Drivers
  I. Oracle
  II. DB2 UDB
  III. SQL Server
  IV. Sybase ASE
  V. Sybase Anywhere
  VI. Sybase IQ
  VII. Informix
  VIII. PostgreSQL
  IX. MySQL
  Memory Configuration
  Character sets
  Registering Servers
  I. MSDE 2000
  II. SQL Express 2005
  III. PostgreSQL SSL
  Application
  I. Browser and Scripting
  II. Visual Editing
  III. SQL History
  IV. Shortcut Toolbar
  V. Key Mappings
  VI. Custom Keymap Profiles
  VII. Options
  VIII. Settings
  Query Window
  I. Basics
  II. Toolbar
  III. Server Side Comments
  IV. SQL Automation
  V. Variable Binding
  VI. Results
  VII. Save Results
  VIII. Auto-completion
  IX. SQL Formatter
  X. Permissions
  XI. Parameterized
  Editors
  I. SQL Editor
  II. Text Editor
  III. HTML Editor
  IV. XML Editor
  V. Regular Expressions
  Image Viewer
  Visual Explain Plan
  I. Basics
  II. Explain Plan
  III. Explain Diagram
  IV. Whiteboard
  Procedure/Package Editor
  Tools
  I. Table Data Editor
  II. Script Generator
  III. ER Diagram
  IV. Query Builder
  V. Import Tool
  VI. Export Tool
  VII. Execution Monitor
  Difference Tools
  I. Schema Diff
  II. Tab Diff
  III. Directory Diff
  IV. File Diff
  V. Copy History Diff
  Oracle DBA Tools
  I. Instance Manager
  II. Storage Manager
  III. Rollback Manager
  IV. Log Manager
  V. Security Manager
  VI. Session Manager
  VII. SGA Manager
  VIII. Server Statistics
  SQL Server DBA Tools
  I. Instance Manager
  II. Storage Manager
  III. Security Manager
  IV. Session Manager
  V. SQL Agent Manager
  Sybase DBA Tools
  I. Instance Manager
  II. Storage Manager
  III. Security Manager
  IV. Session Manager

Toolbar Functionality - Within the Query Analyzer window you can create a new query, open a script, save a query, save a query as, save results, print, parse, execute current, and execute edit. The toolbar allows you to find and replace, enable autocompletion, refresh the auto schema and set the maximum results displayed. You can quickly change the database you are analyzing in the dropdown menu above the edit window.

Scripts and SQL Statement separation Separate your statements with "GO" or "/" - To correctly use all of Query Analyzer's functionality you need to separate your SQL Statements. This allows Aqua Data Studio to quickly identify which statement you are working on so that it may intelligently provide Auto-Completion, Describe, SQL Template, and Execute as a script on the current statement. If you do not do this you might get the impression that Aqua Data Studio doesn't work. Check out #2 and #3.

Do not separate your statements with ";" - The reason Aqua Data Studio does not use ";" as a separator for SQL Statements is because PL/SQL and T-SQL may contain ";". To keep the parser fast and simple for Auto-Completion and Describe we do not use it. If you try to use it as a separator Aqua Data Studio will not be able to identify your current statement and will give you the impression that Auto-Completion and other features do not work. Executing as a script will also generate errors from the RDBMS unable to understand your statement.

You must separate your SQL Statements - If you do not separate your statements Aqua Data Studio will not be able to identify your current statement or separate them for script execution. This might give you the impression that Aqua Data Studio's features do not work.
Auto-Completion - The Query Analyzer provides auto-completion popups for tables, views, synonyms and their columns. It determines when to popup tables or columns according to the cursor position in the SQL statement at the time of popup. Although the query window will intelligently decide when to popup options, you may activate the auto-completion feature with the CTRL-SPACE hot key.
Encoding SQL Scripts & Query Results -ADS supports SQL Scripts encoded in different encoding formats. When openning an SQL Script select the 'File Type' with the appropriate encoding. ADS also supports the saving of resultsets into different encoding types.

Unicode/Charactersets -ADS supports Unicode and International charactersets, but you must make sure you are using the international JRE and that ADS is using a font which supports the characterset you are using. The bundled JRE which comes with ADS is the International version, but if you are using your own you must make sure it supports International charactersets. The default font used by ADS does not support all charactersets, so if you need support for Japanese, Chinese and other languages you may need to change your font by selecting File-Options-> [Appearance Tab] and select an appropriate font.



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