SQLShell releases version 0.4

januari 24, 2008 The INTERNET - The SQLShell team is proud to announce the 0.4 release. We feel this release has made great progress at becoming a full featured sql shell. A lot of work went into improving tab completion to allow you to type as little as possible. Still a lot more ideas to limit the number of keystrokes exist. We hope to address (some of) them in the next 0.5 release.

New features include:
* Improved speed for displaying large( >200 <20000 rows) query results
* Fix display of time in date column (at least for oracle)
* Improved overall tab comnpletion
* Added tabcompletion for:
* desc
* execute batch command
* show
* group by (limited support for now)
* order by (limited support for now)
* allow enter in pwd field to 'ok' data
* fix in replace ~/ with users home dir in spool

We would also like to take the change to explain why this is still a 0.x release. This is not because it will crash your database (although we never garantee it won't :)) but mostly because the command api is far from stable. Every new release thus far has seen some small changes in it's API. Porting commands hasn't been really difficult but we feel that when version 1.0 will be shipped the command API needs to be stable.

We really hope you enjoy this new release as much as we do.

Last but not least we want to whish one of the developers of SQLShell the best of luck with his new challenge at the "Mimeistry's School of Ministering Arts". We still hope he finds some time to send in patches and or new features.