DB Viewer (ADO)

Everyone who has worked with different kinds databases, has noticed that the tools differ per database. In Microsoft Access for example you have a few powerful features, but a complete lack of "printabillity". In a tool like Toad (for Oracle) the printing methods are limited to data.
A solution to these kinds of problems is to have a universal tool that accesses each database in the same way. Of course this program needs to have a lot of extra features that make it as good as other specialized programs. Since I couldn't find a program fast enough (though I'm sure they exist), I started writing something myself.

My DB Viewer allows you to connect to a database using ADO (2.1 or higher is recommended). It supports limited features to connect to an existing BDE database as well (I needed that once on an unknown system). Its key features are:

Abillity to connect to virtually any database (using ADO)
Capable of printing table structures (field information)
Single interface to multiple kinds of databases
Easy to carry along on a floppy (single executable, no installation required)

Remember that this is a program still under development, if I would be working on it fulltime, it would still take months to complete it and make it the ultimate tool. I'm using it regularly, and it hasn't caused any damage (other than the damage done by wrong SQL statements of course ;).

WARNING: When using this program on an Access or SQL database, you must be aware that the tablelist also containts queries, including queries that are not like a view (like delete or update queries!

Go to the Downloads page to download a beta version of DB Viewer.

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Last updated: august 10th 2001.