Software update: DBeaver 6.0.2

DBeaver is a tool to manage databases. It can perform queries, display, filter and edit data, among other things. Support for the well-known databases, such as MySQL, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Firebird and SQLite, is available. It is available in a CE and EE flavour, with the former being open source at no cost. The enterprise flavor adds support for several nosql databases such as MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, and Apache Hive, as well as additional plugins and jdbc drivers. The developers have released version 6.0.2 with the following changes:

DBeaver 6.0.2

• Eclipse 2019-03 is now the default platform
• Embedded editor activation problem fixed (Linux)
• SQL editor:
  • SQL errors now shown in results panel instead of modal dialog (configurable)
  • Certain long strings visibility problem was fixed
  • Auto completion was fixed for CALL/EXEC keywords
  • Tables/schemas were removed from columns proposals
  • Context menu was improved (redundant items were removed)
  • Numerous NPE errors were fixed
  • Multi-statements scripts formatter was improved (adding statement delimiters)
  • Database-specific named parameters prefix was added
  • SQL format was fixed
  • Morph delimited list formatter was fixed (spaces in tokens)
• data editor:
  • Unnecessary focus changing was fixed
  • Calc panel: strings/numbers aggregation toggle was added
• Data transfer: fetch size was added in export settings (may significantly improve performance)
• ERD (custom diagrams):
  • Additional styles were added for notes (colors, transparency, border, font settings)
  • Notes now can be connected with entities
• dashboard:
  • Timeseries dashboard rendering was fixed.
  • New dashboards extraction model was added (statistics reading by intervals)
  • Exasol dashboards were added
• PostgreSQL:
  • Alpha version of GIS/spatial data viewer (maps) was added
  • Explain for queries with parameters was fixed
  • Database description reading was fixed (PG < 9.4)
• Greenplum: tables reading for GP 4.x was fixed
• Oracle:
  • Public synonyms in auto-completion
  • Session manager now shows instance ID (for clusters)
• MySQL/MariaDB:
  • New database dialog now uses server charset/collation defaults
  • Native client was updated (problems with dump/restore compatibility)
• MS SQL Server/Azure: driver version was updated, support of AD MSI authentication was added
• Elasticsearch: metadata reading was fixed (schema/table names escaping)
• Pervasive SQL driver configuration was added
• MySQL NDB cluster driver configuration was added
• Google BigQuery driver was updated
• Numerous localization bugs were fixed
• Many minor UI bug fixes