A new build 6 of the ElevateDB preview will be available today (Jan 19th).

Unfortunately, the format of the catalog and configuration files has changed
again and will require rebuilding from scratch again.  The reason for this
change this time is that a Nullable attribute has been added to table
columns so that you don't have to define CHECK expressions for each column.
Instead, you can now very simply just check or uncheck a Nullable check box.
This makes table definition a bit easier.

A lot of little bug fixes are present in this build, especially with
reference to table creation in the EDB Manager and constraint alteration.

The SQL documentation will be wrapped up by Monday and we'll put up a new
build then with the new docs.  The VCL and component documentation will be
done by the final release.

Included with build 6 is a new CD Collector sample application.  You can
find it in the \example\cdcollector subdirectory off of the main
installation directory.  It was written using Delphi 7, but should be
compilable using Delphi 5 -> BDS 2006.  There are IFDEFs in the code for
things like the Variants unit, etc.  If you have any trouble compiling the
project with non-Delphi 7 IDEs, just let me know and I'll correct the issue.
Sample data is provided with the application and can be found in the
\example\cdcollector\data subdirectory.

Unicode support will be available for BDS 2006 only, at least for the
initial release of EDB, due to issues with proper WideString support in BDS
2005 and earlier, specifically things like TWideMemoField.  A new build next
week will include the Unicode support.  We just have to make a couple of
more adjustments to our build system to support the Unicode builds.  The
Unicode support will appear as a separate BDS 2006 download, so there will
be two BDS 2006 (Delphi and C++ personality) downloads - one for ANSI and
one for Unicode.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

One other thing:

The TEDBSession.LoginUser and LoginPassword properties are no longer
auto-populated with the default user name and password due to issues with
the property streaming when these properties were cleared.

The default user name and password are:

Administrator
EDBDefault (case-sensitive)

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com