[Tora-announce] TOra 1.3.1 alpha release available for download.

[Henrik J. <hp...@gl...>]

KDE3 support, improved waitstate analyzer, tempfiles in storage manager, 
open cursor
caching, improved MySQL support, improved indentation, improved explain 
plan, scrolling
in charts, track charts to files, alarms on chart values, new backup 
manager tool, better
KDE installation, very preliminary support for PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL 
and ODBC.
Changed packaging with Oracle & MySQL in separate rpm:s if posible.

The main new feature in this release is the preliminary support for the 
QSql API of Qt 3.0.1.
Currently the only thing supported by these is using the worksheet, but 
it's a start. This support
is for Qt above 3.0 though so the normal KDE binaries does not have 
PostgreSQL support
since these are based on Qt 2.3.

Another really cool new feature is that when you explain plans in the 
SGA they will be
explained from the context of the user who parsed them, not the user you 
connect as right
now. You can now also use explain plan PL/SQL blocks and get plans for 
the DML statements
found inside them.

Also charts have seen large improvements in this release adding such 
features as tracking to
files, scrollbars and ability to hold a longer history than is displayed 
by default. You can also
set alarms on chart values to get basic monitoring functionality from 
TOra. Currently the alarm
can only pop up a dialog with the warning but in the future email 
notification will probably be
added.

/Mauritz
GlobeCom AB