Release Notes
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
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With Toad, developers and database administrators can use a familiar, proven tool to manage databases. Toad empowers developers and administrators, of varying skill levels, to rapidly create and execute queries, automate database object management, and develop SQL more efficiently.
Toad also provides utilities to compare, extract and search for objects, manage projects, import/export data and administer the database, while increasing your productivity and delivering access to an active user community.
Toad for SAP Solutions 4.0.7 is a patch release with new enhancements and resolved issues.
Before installing Toad, ensure that your client system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
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Platform |
2 GHz processor (recommended minimum) |
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Memory |
Note: The memory required may vary based on the following:
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Hard Disk Space |
800 MB to install Toad Note: The disk space required may vary based on the edition of Toad selected for installation. |
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Operating System |
Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP2 Windows Server® 2012 Windows Server® 2012 R2 Windows Server® 2016 Windows Server® 2019 Windows® 7 SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows® 8.1 (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows® 10, version 1809 |
| .NET Framework |
Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.7.1 |
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Additional Requirements |
Web Browser Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 11 or later Screen Toad supports screen resolutions up to 3200 x 1800 and display DPI settings up to 150% |
Before installing Toad, ensure that your server meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
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Database Server |
SAP ASE 15.5, 15.7, 16 SP03 SAP IQ 15, 16 SAP SQL Anywhere 10, 11, 12, 16 SAP HANA SPS 08, SPS 09, SPS 10, SPS 11, SPS 12, SAP HANA 2.0, SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 02 Note: To use Access 2016 64-bit to connect to an Access database in Toad, the Microsoft Access Database Engine is required and might not be included in the Access installation. The engine must match the architecture (bitness) of Toad. |
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Application Virtualization |
When deploying Toad in a virtualization environment, for best results ensure the system accurately reflects the applicable client hardware and software requirements listed in this document. Toad has been developed using Microsoft guidelines (see Remote Desktop Services programming guidelines) and can be deployed and operated in virtualization environments such as Citrix XenApp, Microsoft App-V, and VirtualBox. |
| Server Virtualization |
Toad has been tested with the following:
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Only Windows Administrators and Power Users can install Toad.
If an Administrator installs Toad, the Administrator can share the Toad shortcut icon on the desktop and menu items with any user—a Power User, Restricted User—on the computer.
If a Power User installs Toad, a Restricted User cannot do the following:
The following describes the requirements and restrictions for users who launch and run Toad:
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release of Toad for SAP Solutions:
Resolved Issues in 4.0.7
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| General | Support bundle now generates correctly. | QAT-14988 |
| Script Generation | Generating INSERT statements now works instantly even for tables with large numbers of rows. | TSS-1663/4512804 |
| Pivot Grid | Pivot Grid column subtotals can now be formatted. | QAT-14608 |
| Default subtotal summary type was changed to SUM for string values in Pivot Grid. | QAT-14837 | |
| There is an new option to show aggregate total values for row categories that only have one value. The default is to not display totals when there is only one value. | QAT-14998 | |
| It is now possible to display subtotals for single values. Click Set pivot grid properties on Pivot Grid toolbar to enable. | QAT-14998 |
Resolved Issues in 4.0.6
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | An issue when Excel spreadsheet exported during Automation was not displayed is now fixed. | QAT-14819/4498499 |
| Installation | Users should be able to deploy license keys during installation. This was broken in Toad Data Point 5.0 and is now fixed. | QAT-14834/
4510329, 4516827, 4516600 |
| Pivot Grid | A scroll bar has been added to the row area in Pivot Grid. | QAT-14705 |
| Query Builder |
Vertical scroll bar is now displayed in Cross-Connection Query Mode of Query Builder. |
QAT-14749 |
| Query Builder |
A Group By button for aggregated functions has been added to Query Builder. |
QAT-14609 |
Resolved Issues in 4.0.5
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Connection Manager |
Displaying of database objects on SAP ASE 16 SP03 now works correctly. |
QAT-13928 |
| Installation | Allow Saving Passwords option in installation wizard now works correctly for 32-bit installer too. | QAT-14822 |
Resolved Issues in 4.0.4
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Editor | Users can now select the directory to serialize large results sets. The option is located under Database | Script results | QAT-14377 |
Resolved Issues in 4.0.3
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | Usage connection from parent activity has been reworked. A new option From parent has been added which indicates whether the currently used connection should recursively search for parents | QAT-13279 |
Resolved Issues in 4.0.2
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | Error when .xlsm file could not be exported using Automation script has been fixed | QAT-14201 |
| Object Editor (DOE) | An issue in Create like connection feature has been fixed | QAT-12420 |
| Pivot Grid | Pivot Grid now allows you to use Aggregated data values in a calculated field | QAT-14074 |
| SQL Editor | New option in Tools | Options | Editor | Tools | Auto highlight selected word enables auto highlighting of selected words | TSS-1606 |
Resolved Issues in 4.0.1
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Data Compare & Sync | Error when data cannot be filtered has been fixed | QAT-14057 |
| Pivot Grid | Pivot Grid now supports Top N rows so one can sort and filter for top N values of pivoted data | QAT-12434 |
| Query Builder | Corrected issue in Query Builder to reverse engineer SQL that contained a UNION and where condition | QAT-13812 |
| Query Builder | Prior to executing mixed case aliases, the Query Builder would change to upper case causing the execution to fail | QAT-13581 |
| SQL Editor | Corrected issue where function/procedure could not be executed that had a long parameter name when using SAP ASE connections | QAT-13795 |
Resolved Issues in 4.0
| Feature | Resolved Issue | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | Execution of procedures in Select to File Activity now works correctly | 12124/4175590 |
| Explain Plan | Query Plan now checks for user privilege and displays error message | 10945/4062923 |
| Display of Query Plan has been optimized | 11379/4062923 | |
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On ASE it is necessary to enable resource limits on the server to allow Explain Plan to work correctly |
12217/4180645 | |
| Extract DDL | An issue related to encryption of ASE password has been fixed | 12512/4221396 |
| Object Editor | Toad now handles Login profiles correctly | 10838/4059748 |
| Create like login in HANA 2.0 now works correctly | 12420/4204361 | |
| SAP IQ events are now dropped and created again when altered | 12433/4208440 | |
| Object Explorer | Indexes are now included on table Script Generation | 11304/4094561 |
| Time needed for loading some tables on ASE was decreased | 11483/4104342 | |
| Display of row count in Object Explorer has been enhanced | 11696/4130487 | |
| Script Generation | Set flushmessage on now works correctly on SAP ASE |
10364 |
| Schema Compare and Sync | Details Report in Schema Compare now works correctly | 11645/4118758 |
| SQL Editor | Issue caused by a specific SQL statement was fixed in HANA 2.0 SPS01 Revision 12.01 | 9346 |
| Behavior of query cancelling has been improved | 11669/4130482 | |
| SQL Editor tab now displays an icon to indicate an error with SQL script instead of changing focus | 11695 | |
| Filtering data columns in Result Set now works correctly | 12339/4193695, 4199384 |
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release.
| Feature | Known Issue | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Query Builder |
In SAP Sybase IQ and SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere, queries with a varchar datatype that contain single quotation marks do not function correctly when generating the query plan. Workaround: Replace single quotation marks with double single quotation marks when generating the explain plan. Note: This fix only affects the explain plan code for IQ and SQL Anywhere. |
ST92945 |
| Debugger | An ASE exception occurs when stepping into or over a function during procedure debugging. |
ST94273 |
| Schema Compare | Schema Compare add-in that generates DLL does not currently work from all objects context menus. | TSY-524 |
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An error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" displays when some snapshots are opened directly in Toad. |
2305673-1/TSY-236 | |
| Monitor | The monitor is enabled by default after Tools | Monitor | Process Browser is started but the tooltip still reads ‘Enable Monitor’. | TSY-523 |
| SQL Monitor will take several seconds to load in case of large SQL text data. | 2289371-1/TSY-160 | |
| Object Editor | In some cases Toad generates DROP and CREATE OR REPLACE at the same time for functions. | TSY-1942 |
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Currently, it is not possible to Grant some of the roles for SAP HANA, incl. sap.hana.admin.roles::Monitoring or sap.hana.admin.roles::Administrator. Workaround: Assign the roles using the procedure from _SYS_REPO: GRANT_ACTIVATED_ROLE. |
TSY-1495 | |
| Queries | It is not possible to cancel some queries running in the background. | TSY-486 |
| QP5 | Items are not aligned properly when "Commas in lists" are configured "Leading with space" in Options | Editor | Formatter. | TSY-260 |
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