SoftTree's unveils SQL Assistant v4.0

STATEN ISLAND, USA: SoftTree Technologies, provider of database management and development solutions has announced that version 4.0 of SQL Assistant delivers new integration components for leading application development tools including Microsoft Visual Studio, Sybase PowerBuilder, and the Eclipse Platform.

The new release adds a vast array of essential database development functions directly into the application development environment, elevating user productivity to new levels. This is achieved via direct injection of SQL IntelliSense+, SQL syntax checkers, SQL code formatters, database and code navigators, and other essential database development functions that both empower application developers with dramatic performance gains and reward employers with slashed development costs and improved code quality.

The SQL Assistant integration with application development tools enables PowerBuilder, C#, Visual Basic, Java, PHP and other application developers to develop database side objects, design, text, layout, and run sophisticated database queries right in their favorite application development environment (IDE).

SQL Assistant eliminates the need to utilize convoluted and error-prone copy & paste methods to move code between multiple software development tools.

Version 4.0 strengthens SQL Assistant’s position as the market’s most sophisticated SQL programming productivity tool. Its ability to eliminate up to 300 percent of keystrokes, automatically generate high quality SQL code, correct SQL syntax and spelling errors, use historical coding patterns to suggest commonly used queries will turbo-charge developer productivity.

“SQL Assistant now includes all of the functionality and most of the nice to haves that I need as a developer,” said Keziah Pillay, an application developer with Land Resources International. (PTY) LTD. “The new real-time syntax checker and other auto-completes make life so much easier,” said Pillay.

SQL Assistant 4.0 supports all major databases. It is shipped pre-configured with support for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access, Sybase ASA and ASE. The product also integrates with many widely used database editors, database management and development environments, as wells as DBMS native utilities.