DBUpdater features

   Provider Supported
The providers supported by the DbUpdater tool are:
  - MSDE
  - Sql Server 2000
  - ASA 8 or superion
  - Access (in development phase)

   Basic
  - Package database schema
  - Live and off-line database installation and update
  - Update all kind of database objects (tables, indexes, stored procedures, db spaces, users)
  - Define which kind of object to update
  - Define which kind of update to do (insert new objects, update existing objects, delete unused objects, rename objects, copy and/or delete data, exclude listed objects from update)
  - Easy-to-use configuration files where define the update policy
  - Easy-to-use visual tool for packaging
  - Update policy specialized for single customer
  - Customer provider different from development team provider
  - Preserve dependencies and referential integrity during updating

   Advanced
  - DataBase Creation
  - Upon primary key changes, automatic update child data by means of foreign keys
  - Copy data from original table to customer table
  - Rename tables
  - Rename fields
  - Update stored procedures and functions, even when they are encrypted
  - Update triggers
  - Delete unused tables, fields, indexex, constraints
  - Support of different providers
  - Synchronize database which are mounted in different providers
  - Customer prefixes used to discard updates for some tables
  - Automatic backup database before update
  - Window for manual handling update sql script before run it
  - Asks confirmation for object deletion
  - Exact field mapping à solved problem with ADO schema info
  - Clear (or partial delete) table content
  - Customizable Console window
  - Customizable Progress Info window
  - Possibility to work in quite mode