Eduphant

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Eduphant
Software Details:
Version: 2.0b2
Upload Date: 3 Jan 15
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 16
Size: 1063 Kb

Rating: nan/5 (Total Votes: 0)

EduPhant is a PostgreSQL client targeted at both SQL novices and PostgreSQL developers.
The SQL query templates will allow the novices to quickly pick up the SQL syntax and logic, and they will jog the memory of the more advanced users. Plus they make it a breeze to rapidly construct your SQL queries through pointing and clicking rather than by typing. You can also store your own custom SQL templates.
Another great help with building queries is the ability to click on any item of the query results table or of the database overview table to quickly insert them in your queries without typing either. (And therefore without typos too!)
The help button contains links to the most essential PostgreSQL information on the internet, which will quickly make EduPhant the center of all your PostgreSQL related work.
EduPhant has support for STDIN and STDOUT, which is very rare.
The log shows you the inner workings of the PostgreSQL server, which is also a unique feature of EduPhant. Programmers just love it! And you can quickly hide it when you don't need it.
Another critical feature of EduPhant is its excellent support for text encodings. Most other SQL clients dumbly enter data in PostgreSQL in their operating system's default text encoding, regardless of the encoding in which your database has been defined. This results in corrupted data that isn't usable cross-platform or with other clients that do respect the text encodings like EduPhant. The corruption is most noticable with non-ASCII characters like an accented "e."
EduPhant is also one of the very few clients that supports UNICODE!
All this makes EduPhant probably the best and safest cross-platform client around for working with PostgreSQL. Oh, and did we mention it's free?

What is new in this release:

Changes since 2.0b1: 2.0b1 wasn't a public release but was available a few days on our site for our own experimentation purposes. It had a 20 minutes limit on connection time with PostgreSQL and an expiration date which are now removed and a few other minor changes were made, especially to solve a problem with the Windows version.
Changes since 1.0b1: Version 2.0 is a major upgrade from version 1.0! There are many new features.
Corrected bugs:
- The only known bug in 1.0b1 was that EduPhant could sometimes wrongly report the database text encoding with PostgreSQL 7.2 and below. It did know which encoding to deal with, but could sometimes stick a wrong name on it.
New features:
- EduPhant can now open multiple document windows which allow you to connect to several different databases simultaneously.
- You can save your connection documents.
- Amongst the SQL templates there's a new button called "Custom" in which you can store you're own SQL statements. (They are saved with your Eduphant document.) Just to the right of it there's a smaller button without caption that allows you to execute your custom queries without modifying the query field.
- You can easily hide the log and choose not to work with message boxes, etc.
- The structure of your database is shown in a table and you can click on its items to add them to your queries. E.g. instead of typing a column name in your query you just click on it in the database overview. (In 1.0b1 you could already click on items of your query results.)
- You can now copy and/or save several chunks of information: the query field, the query results, and the log. Saving is possible in Unicode UTF-8 or your system's default text encoding.
- There is support for STDIN and STDOUT. You can assign a file on your hard disk to these and then do a "COPY mytable FROM STDIN" for instance.
- The broken links in the "Help" button have been updated.
- EduPhant can now check by itself whether there is a new version of itself available. You can set this in the preferences. This requires an active internet connection of course.
If you like EduPhant please post a review. Thank you!

Requirements:

Mac OS X, PostgreSQL 6.4 and later

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