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DBArtisan 5.03 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Datasource discovery is a very welcome addition. I change clients rather frequently and am constantly setting up DBArtisan and adding datasources to my home machine for remote monitoring. Starting at a new client can be extremely tedious if you have to set up several datasources. I had gotten pretty good at importing registry keys to accomplish the initial registration of many datasources. DBArtisan 5.03 now has an auto-discovery feature. The first level is that it will gather all of the datasources registered through other management tools on your machine. You can then simply select those you want registered in DBArtisan and click the Register button. The second level of discovery will perform a scan of your network to pick up datasources that are visible to your machine. You can then register them as well. This can save a significant amount of time in accomplishing the initial registration. (Now if I could only use a trusted connection to register a datasource instead of being required to use standard security.)
Managing a large number of datasources can get very tedious. Version 5.03 has added in a Manage Datasources feature. This will display all of the datasources registered and allow you to make modifications. It is also an excellent place to make mass deletions if you have several datasources that no longer exist. Be prepared to shut down DBArtisan and restart it if you make mass deletions that includes several groups. The Explorer doesn't react very well to this and will not reflect the deletion of datasources even though they no longer exist.
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