
Chyfo version 2.9.2

Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Ispirer Systems.
All Rights Reserved.

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+ improvement/modification
! bug fixed

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Version 2.9.2
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[+] Generation of DDL statements and command scripts for Sybase.
[+] Added the option to convert CLOB (TEXT, MEMO) data to other data types.
[+] Added option /OTF to specify the output text file name exactly with an
extension.
[+] Added options to specify tablespaces for IBM DB2.
[!] Fixed using blanks in the table, column and index names.
[!] Fixed converting IBM DB2 BLOB and CLOB into MS SQL Server IMAGE and TEXT
datatypes.

Version 2.9
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[+] Generation of DDL statements and command scripts for MySQL.
[+] Generation of command scripts to run DDL statements.
[+] Customization for IBM DB2 and MySQL script generations (database, user,
password)
[+] Added the option /LOBIN to write the LOB data inside of the text file.
[+] Generation of format files for the Microsoft BCP utility.
[+] Loading LOBs (TEXT, IMAGE) into MS SQL Server using the BCP utility.
[+] Improvement of logging facilities.
[!] Retrieving of PRIMARY KEYS from MS Access databases.

Version 2.7
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[+] Generation of DDL statements for CHECK and UNIQUE constraints for Oracle,
IBM DB2 and MS SQL Server (Chyfo Pro only)
[+] Extraction of VIEW definitions from Oracle, IBM DB2 and MS SQL Server
[+] Retrieving of column DEFAULT values for Oracle, IBM DB2 and MS SQL Server
[+] Added the option /STDEL to specify a statement termination character
[+] Added the option /NSTOP to continue processing when an error occurs
[+] Customization for the Microsoft BCP utility script generations 
(server name, user, password)
[!] Fixed some bugs in INSERT statements generations
[!] Fixed some bugs in DDL statements generations from MS Access and MySQL

Version 2.5
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[+] Generation of INSERT statements
[+] Added the option to generate COMMIT statement after specified number of 
INSERT statements are generated
[+] Added the option /DECPT to specify a decimal point character.
[+] Added the option to convert floating point values (REAL, FLOAT, DOUBLE) by 
Chyfo (allows getting around limitations of some ODBC drivers)
[+] Added the option to automatically shift LOB columns to the end of column
list (allows getting around limitations of some ODBC drivers - "Invalid
descriptor index" error)
[!] Loading of empty and NULL LOB columns into Oracle

Version 2.3
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[+] Generation of DDL statements for PRIMARY KEYS (Chyfo Pro only)
[+] Generation of DDL statements for REFERENTIAL CONSTRAINTS (Chyfo Pro only)
[+] Added the option to put all DDL scripts to one file
[+] Added the option to generate DROP TABLE statement
[+] Support of early ODBC versions
[!] Fixed converting of large DOUBLE numbers

Version 2.1
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[+] Converting of large numbers of tables using templates (like %.%, schema1.%)
    (Chyfo Pro only)
[+] Providing a list of tables for converting (from the command prompt or
    a file) 
[+] Added option /TABLST to create the list of tables available on the
    database by template (Chyfo Pro only)
[+] Support MS SQL Server UNIQUEIDENTIFIER and BIT data types
[+] Added the option for converting MS SQL DATETIME without the millisecond
part
[+] Added the option /EMPS to omit the schema name in generated DDL statements
[+] Added the option /CDEL to specify a column delimiter for CSV text format
[!] Defining the output schema name
[!] Converting MS SQL Server SMALLDATETIME columns

Version 1.7.5
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[+] Generation of DDL statements for table indexes (CREATE INDEX scripts)
[+] Customization for Oracle SQL Loader script generations 
    (userid, date formats, load option)
[+] Added the option for converting DB2 TIMESTAMP without the microsecond part 
[+] Added the schema name option to change or set schema name for the output
    table  
[+] LONG VARCHAR columns which are less than 4000 chars converted into 
    VARCHAR2 for Oracle
[+] Added the option for DECODE function in Oracle SQL Loader control file
    that allows loading empty strings into CHAR NOT NULL columns for
    fixed length text file
[!] Loading empty strings (not NULL) into CHAR NOT NULL columns in Oracle
    for CSV format

Version 1.7.4
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[+] Added initialization file for saving common options
[+] Option /DDL for DDL statements generation only
[+] LOBs are saved in the subdirectory LOBS of /DIR by default

Version 1.7.3
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[+] SELECT clause definition from a file
[+] Support LOB (CLOB, BLOB) data types
[!] Rule for defining table name in queries
[!] Enclose empty strings (not NULL) in double quotes
[!] Enclose TIMESTAMP values in double quotes 
[!] Converting from DB2 LONG VARCHAR into Oracle CLOB

Version 1.7.1
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[+] Table's creation scripts
[+] MS SQL Server support
[+] List of columns to be excluded from converting 
[!] Converting LONG VARCHAR data type 

Version 1.7
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[+] TAB format
[+] Support IBM DB2 IMPORT and LOAD commands 
[+] Start row and number of rows to be exported
[!] CSV format

Version 1.3.1 
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[+] Support Oracle SQL Loader utility
[!] Fixed some converting bugs

Version 1.3 
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First public release.
