Database Toolbox

New Features

Version 2.1

• The Database Toolbox now runs on all platforms that support MATLAB 6, with the exception of the HP 10.2 (HP 700).
• Performance for fetching data from your database has increased by a factor of roughly 100 over Version 2.0. This improvement was first introduced in Version 2.0.1.
• Do not run feature('dispatchjava',1) to start the Database Toolbox, as was required for Version 2.0. Instead, begin by running the Database Toolbox function you want to use.
• When using the Visual Query Builder, you can now export query results using the Report Generator, if the Report Generator product is installed locally. To use it, select Report Generator from the Visual Query Builder Display menu.
• A Group button has been added to the Where, Subquery, and Having dialog boxes. Use the Group button to group constraints for a single field, especially when using the OR operator. Basically, the Group button allows you to evaluate a set of constraints as a whole.

Version 2

Version 2 of the Database Toolbox includes these new features:

• The Visual Query Builder, an easy-to-use graphical user interface for retrieving data from your database.
• Support for UNIX - You can now run the Database Toolbox on UNIX platforms. Note that for MATLAB Release 12, the Database Toolbox does not run on the HP 10.2 platform.
• Over 30 new functions - These include an invaluable set of functions for retrieving database metadata so you can find out information about the database, for example, table names and column names. Other new functions are for drivers and resultsets.
• To use the new version of the database toolbox, you need to run the command

feature('dispatchjava',1). (Note that this is not required for the 
Database Toolbox on MATLAB Release 12.)

How Databases Connect to MATLAB

Features of the Database Toolbox