Product Documentation Embarcadero® Rapid SQL™ User Guide Version XE 3/8.1.1 1st Edition June, 2012 © 2012 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. Embarcadero, the Embarcadero Technologies logos, and all other Embarcadero Technologies product or service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. This software/documentation contains proprietary information of Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.; it is provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and is also protected by copyright law. Reverse engineering of the software is prohibited. Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. The company’s flagship tools include: Embarcadero® Change Manager™, CodeGear™ RAD Studio, DBArtisan®, Delphi®, ER/Studio®, JBuilder® and Rapid SQL®. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com. CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS EMEA HEADQUARTERS ASIA-PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS 100 CALIFORNIA STREET YORK HOUSE L7. 313 LA TROBE STREET 12TH FLOOR 18 YORK ROAD MELBOURNE VIC 3000 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA MAIDENHEAD, BERKSHIRE AUSTRALIA 94111 USA SL6 1SF, UNITED KINGDOM CONTENTS Contents Welcome to Rapid SQL. 11 Additional Product Resources . .11 Prerequisites and Preliminary Tasks . .12 Technical Requirements. 12 Database Support and Connectivity Options . 14 Licensing . 16 More Information on Using this Document . 21 Getting Started . 25 Application Basics . .27 Product Design . 27 Tutorial exercises . .55 Session 1: Getting Started . 55 Session 2: Productivity Enhancers . 58 Session 3: Scripting. 68 Session 4: Working with Code Workbench . 75 Session 5: Building a Database Project . 77 Session 6: Visual Query Builder . 79 Session 7: Live Data Editor. 81 Session 8: Code Analyst. 82 Session 9: SQL Debugging and Profiling . 83 Specifying Rapid SQL application and feature options . .89 Connection Options . 90 Browsers Options . 93 Code Analyst Options . 94 Data Editor Options . 95 Data Transfer Options . 96 Datasource Options . 97 DBMS_Java Options. 98 DDL Extract Options . 98 Debug Options . 100 Directories Options . 101 Explorer Options . 102 General Options . 102 Grid Properties (Results window) Options . 104 RAPID SQL XE 3/8.1.1 USER GUIDE 3 CONTENTS ISQL Options. 105 Java Options . 117 Logging Options. 117 MySQL Utilities Options. 118 Oracle Utilities Options . 119 Perf Center Options . 119 Query Builder Options . 120 Reports Options . 121 Results (ISQL) Options . 121 SMTP Mail Options. 123 Version Control Options . 124 Warnings Options. 124 Datasource and Server Management . 127 Registering Datasources . .127 Specifying a Datasource Catalog Storage Option . 128 Manually Registering or Editing Datasources . 129 Automatically Discovering Datasources . 140 Importing and Exporting Datasource Definitions . 142 Viewing Datasource Properties . ..