HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL 9.4

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This is a maintenance release with quite some additional new features and enhancements.

• New features:

  • Introduce GUI font preferences setting, so the user can customize the font of all dialogs and forms
  • Add a "clear" button to the both db+table filter textboxes.
  • Make insertion of node text on double click customizable, per tree style options menu
  • Make brace matching color customizable, via Tools > Preferences > SQL.
  • Add menu item "Run SQL file", as a complement to "Load SQL files".
  • Set font size per Ctrl + mousewheel in any grid view.
  • Add new "Options" dropdown button on SQL export dialog, and two new true/false settings: "Add comments" and "Remove auto_increment clauses".
  • Support procedures and functions in "Find text on server" dialog.
  • Support inline valued functions on MSSQL.
  • Make keep-alive-interval customizable in "Advanced" tab on session manager.
  • Display UTC date/time in 5th status bar panel.
  • Add "SQL DELETEs/INSERTs" to grid export formats.
  • Display the version of libpq.dll in the status bar's balloon hint with server details, using PQlibVersion().
  • Support wildcard options in "Find text on server" dialog in a new drop down box, to provide a possibility to find exact matches.
  • MySQL/MariaDB: Implement support for expired passwords. Show a change-password dialog after the very first query of a connection when it returns "Error 1820: You must SET PASSWORD before executing this statement".
  • Support Windows authentication via command line parameter W or winauth.
  • Accept SSL session settings as command line parameters. See http://www.heidisql.com/help.php#commandline for details.
  • Add some hotkeys for focusing table filter, database tree and main tabs. Also, add a new main menu with these actions, so the user can look up these hotkeys.

• Enhancements:

  • Prefetch mass queries fired for each object in a database
  • Support MSSQL's XML data type, and do not cast it to VARCHAR in data grid
  • Increase size of analyzed text file chunk from 100K to 1M, in DetectEncoding(), so it fails less often to see encoding relevant characters
  • Add various missing translation strings
  • Detect table and its alias when using UPDATE/INSERT IGNORE
  • Display column comments on MSSQL
  • Add basic support for MySQL's new JSON data type.
  • Add new MySQL internally used date/time data types.
  • Internally handle MySQL's native column types in an enumeration, not as constants. See mysql.h.pp in the MySQL server code.
  • Add virtual column syntax for MySQL, which seems to differ slightly from the MariaDB implementation.
  • User manager: Allow double quotes in SHOW GRANTS output, to support ANSI mode.
  • Translate SynEdit shortcut captions.
  • Increase width of shortcut tree, so new translations have enough room.
  • Update SynEdit component
  • Remember size of completion proposal between sessions.
  • Rephrase confirmation message for running unsafe queries.
  • Do not quote column names when not required in SELECT query for data grid.
  • Add some new lines in SQL export, especially when "Add comments" is disabled
  • Try to show tooltip when columns in database tree are too narrow to show the full text.
  • Format byte numbers so that we never get a thousands separator in it.
  • Use a better fitting icon for the browse-file button in SQL export dialog.
  • Warn if export output filename contains illegal characters, which TFileStream.Create does not catch for some reason.
  • Do not check existence of IS.routines before querying it.
  • Remember selected encoding in several file-open-dialogs.
  • Use an exact comparison in multi-column filters for some PostgreSQL data types to overcome SQL errors, e.g. UUID, INT etc. Also, prevent other errors by matching the value against a certain regular expression. If it does not match, leave this column away.
  • Update all PostgreSQL libraries
  • Add splitter on procedure editor.
  • Set each procedure parameter on its own line, and remove some tabs.
  • Display number of sorted columns on "Sorting" button.
  • Display number of selected columns besides available columns on "Columns" button in "Data" tab.
  • Add new item "Logging preferences" to context menu in SQL log panel
  • Preferences: Add checkbox for "Horizontal scrollbar" in Logging tab.
  • Preferences: Give each tab an individual icon, and use flat button style for tabs.
  • Display network type in tooltip over server status panel.
  • Cosmetics in session manager: Rearrange and resize labels in statistics tab.
  • Cosmetics: Make status bar panel for server version a bit wider.
  • Update Transifex command line client to 0.12.1.
  • Add client plugin for MariaDB's GSSAPI authentication, basically Windows authentication.
  • Move some menu items for configuring data grids into a new submenu labelled "Grid view options"
  • Create a duplicated menu item there, for "View binary data as text" button from the main toolbar
  • Create a new menu item there, for jumping to the "Data" tab in the preferences window
  • Add related translation strings
  • Move plink.exe path to lpCommandLine parameter instead of passing it as lpApplicationName. This way, a folderless plink.exe call should use the first available one from the path environment.
  • Support multiple objects selected in user manager > add object.
  • Clear contents of filter boxes when pressing Esc key.
  • Support all integer and real data types for displaying as Unix timestamp.
  • Support session name in placeholders for filename.

• Bugfixes:

  • Non functional bind parameter detection
  • Use db.func instead of schema.func when schema is empty, on retrieving MSSQL routine structure
  • MSSQL: Fix broken query for altering column comment via table editor
  • A yes/no message dialog may also return mrCancel, when the user clicks the X button to close it. Handle this case as if the user clicked "no", when HeidiSQL detects an unsafe query.
  • Fix endless loop in retrieval of column comments on MSSQL.
  • Fix order in table column parsing, so that collation is expected before a virtual expression
  • Fix non-working detection of indexes on PostgreSQL pre-9.0 servers
  • Postpone repaint of the data grid to later, after click on a header column with a bad WHERE filter. Fixes a crash in VirtualTree, when handling the click somewhere.
  • Fix position of horizontal splitter on second and successive query tabs.
  • MSSQL: Set textsize to a large value, so the view editor does not load partial code only.
  • Use a reasonable default height for the query editor, to prevent a splitter problem.
  • Prevent various problems with alignment of controls.
  • Fix duplication of query tab controls, when it comes to aligning the query helpers tree.
  • Fix crash when opening completion proposal with only views in a database.
  • Ignore surrounding parentheses when detecting table aliases for completion proposal.
  • Table designer: Do not allow an empty length/set for data types which require one.
  • Slightly increase auto-calculated width of size column in database tree, so it does not use ellipses on wider texts, e.g. "1.023 KiB"
  • In SQL dumps, make "SET NAMES utf8mb4" a version conditional statement for the minimum MySQL version supporting that charset.
  • Implement TPGQuery.TableName, so exporting grid rows get a table name when needed. E.g. for output format "SQL Inserts".
  • Allow tab after double dash comment in SQL highlighter.
  • Fix detection of virtual columns without "GENERATED ALWAYS" clause.
  • Fix unquoted and uncleaned numeric values in data grid updates and inserts.
  • Fix bug in TAdoDBQuery.TableName when multiple queries were executed.
  • Use an exact comparison for PostgreSQL's BOOLEAN datatype.
  • Fix multi column filter concatenated without OR after linebreak.
  • MSSQL: Work around multiple results from a single query, in case of a stored procedure for example.
  • Fill SSL command line parameters only if not empty in HeidiSQL session.
  • Overcome 4000 character limit in IS.VIEW_DEFINITION.
  • Use b'' format only for BIT columns in MySQL only.
  • Fix "Database(s)" string split by space characters. Allow semicolon only.
  • Fix wrong FLOAT data type mapping between DB.TFieldType and TDBDatatypeIndex, in TAdoDBQuery.Execute.
  • Do not complain about empty password when SHOW GRANTS output does not include the IDENTIFIED BY clause on MySQL 5.7.6+.
  • Rewind result set for column comments before iterating over it, as it's an inner loop.
  • Trim database names when passed as semicolon separated list.
  • Use exact text data types instead of their whole category for detecting special binary columns. Fixes unquoted JSON content in SQL exports.
  • Fix slow highlighter when TableNames contains several 1000's of strings. Removes limitation to 1000 table names for highlighting.
  • Fix crash when showing hint (animation) on grid cells with large text portions.
  • Catch exception when clicking "Cancel running operation" and the KILL command cannot be executed.