Dear Friends,

We are happy to announce the new release of Context Database
Designer & Database Extensions v.2.12.

Context Database Designer & Extensions now supports:
 - MS SQL 2000/2005/Express
 - MS Access
 - Interbase\Firebird\Yaffil (NEW!)
 - My SQL 4 & 5
 - Mimer 9
 - Oracle 8
 - DBISAM 3 & 4
 - Nexus 1 & 2
 - Paradox

This version introduces several improvements and bug fixes:

Issues Addressed

#482 Fixed bug in reverse engineering of MS Access database. Memo
    fields were converted to VARCHAR instead of LONGTEXT.

#483 Fixed bug with in MS Access database profile: GO was not
    generated after ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY statement.

#484 Fixed bug: size property should be visible only for field
    types that support it (database engine specific).

Improvements

#485 Added warning when string field has zero size when testing
    database schema consistency.

#486 Added generation of default values for fields in MS Access
    SQL generation.

#487 Added support for autoincrement field type in MS Access SQL
    generation.

#488 Added FBPlus adapter for Firebird, Interbase and Yaffil,
    based on FIB Plus components by DevRace (http://www.devrace.com).

#489 Added diagram page arranging by dragging and dropping page
    tabs.

#490 Added reverse engineering from Information Schema for Mimer
    9 database engine.


Both products are immediately available for download at:

 http://www.contextsoft.com/products/dbdesign/downloads.jsp.
and
 http://www.contextsoft.com/products/ctxdbext/downloads.jsp.

See screenshots here:
 http://www.contextsoft.com/products/dbdesign/screenshots.jsp

General Information About Context Database Designer
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Context Database Designer is a great tool for designing and
managing database schemas. It provides the full cycle of database
schema design and maintenance, including: creating of tables,
relations, views and stored procedures; drawing of sophisticated
and professional looking diagrams; maintaining the history of
changes made to the database schema; comparing any two
versions of any two schemes, viewing the difference and instantly
building upgrade SQL script for any given database engine.

We believe, that Context Database Designer is one of the most
powerfull, flexible and feature-rich tools available on the
market today. We highly appreciate your comments and suggestions
that help us making it even better and more accessible for all
database developers.

Fully functional trial version is available at:

Context Database Designer
http://www.contextsoft.com/products/dbdesign/downloads.jsp

Context Database Extensions
http://www.contextsoft.com/products/ctxdbext/downloads.jsp

For more details, please go to
http://www.contextsoft.com/products/dbdesign
http://www.contextsoft.com/products/ctxdbext
and refer to the included help files, demos and screenshots.

Sincerely,
Michael Baytalsky
e-mail: mike@contextsoft.com
http://www.contextsoft.com