Embarcadero Rapid SQL XE3 helps developers and DBAs produce high performance SQL code at lightening speeds. With support for all major database platforms from a single interface, teams can standardize on one powerful heterogeneous SQL IDE tool. A rich development environment simplifies SQL scripting, query building, object management, project management, and version control in live databases or offline source code repositories. Intuitive SQL editing, debugging, and optimization tools help create high performance SQL code.

Rapid SQL XE3, the latest generation of the Rapid SQL family of products, allows you to develop on all major DBMS platforms and includes Embarcadero® AppWave™, for centralized license management, tool provisioning, and “zero-install” deployment capability.

With Rapid SQL XE3 you get:

• Support for all seven database platforms included in a single, affordable license
• Go global with full Unicode character and enhanced currency support
• Three new object filtering capabilities
• On-the-fly SQL syntax alerts, semantic validation, and SQL parsing
• Full object look-up through-out the SQL statement
• Code complete with dynamic "walk-throughs"
• Quick export and import of registered data source information
• InterBase® and Firebird support

For cross-platform schema development, Rapid SQLs standardized, multi-tabbed, graphical object editors for each database object type allow you to move effortlessly from managing a SQL Server or Sybase schema to managing an Oracle schema, and vice-versa. The product contains full knowledge of the underlying DBMS system catalog, syntax, and alteration rules.

New in Rapid SQL XE3/8.1

Rapid SQL XE3, the latest generation of the Rapid SQL family of products, allows you to develop on all major DBMS platforms and includes Embarcadero® AppWave™, for centralized license management, tool provisioning, and “zero-install” deployment capability.

The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in Rapid SQL enables developers to create, edit, version, tune, and deploy server-side objects residing on IBM® DB2®, Firebird, InterBase®, Microsoft® SQL Server, MySQL®, Oracle®, and Sybase® databases.

Key features of Rapid SQL XE3 include:

• Single interface for all major DBMSes
• Graphical object editors
• Wizard-driven object creation
• Extended Alter Statements
• ISQL window with SQL analysis, built-in explain plans and performance execution analysis
• Visual query builder
• SQL Editor
• Version Control
• Reverse-engineering
• Code Analyst
• SQL Debugger

Revision Information:

• Current Version: XE3/8.1
• Prior Version: XE2/8.0
• Current Release: May 2, 2012