Database Toolbox Release Notes

Chapter 1
Database Toolbox 3.0 Release Notes

New Features

This section summarizes the new features and enhancements introduced in the Database Toolbox 3.0.

If you are upgrading from a release earlier than Release 14, then you should see New Features in the Database Toolbox 2.2 Release Notes. Note that there were no new features introduced in the Database Toolbox version 2.2.1.

New Data Types Supported

The Database Toolbox now supports Java BINARY (BLOB or Binary Large Objects) and OTHER data types, such as bitmap images and MAT-files. For details, see the relevant sections in the Visual Query Builder documentation and the Database Toolbox functions documentation.

Visual Query Builder (VQB) Enhancements

• You can now use the VQB to export data from MATLAB, and insert it into new rows in a database. See Exporting Data Using the VQB for details.
• You can now use Display menu items in the VQB with structure and numeric formats for retrieved data as specified in Preferences or with setdbprefs. In previous releases, you could use Display menu items for the cell array format only.
• You can now use the VQB for tables and fields that contain spaces in their names. They appear inside quotation marks in the VQB lists.
• When you double-click a variable in the Data field of the VQB, it now opens in the Array Editor. In previous versions, the contents display in the Command Window. You can still display the contents in the Command Window by typing the variable name in the Command Window.
• In the VQB, when you edit the query in the SQL statement field and then select Query -> Save, the query in the SQL statement field is saved rather than the query represented by the other VQB fields.

Database Toolbox Functions Compilable

Because of changes made to the MATLAB Compiler, you can compile Database Toolbox functions to create stand-alone applications that do not require MATLAB when run.

Database Toolbox Release Notes

Major Bug Fixes

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