New iPhone SDK Options in Valentina DB and Reports 4.2

Paradigma Software has announced Valentina DB 4.2, a major update to its ultra fast columnar database for businesses and developers. Valentina Reports has also been updated to version 4.2. The cross-platform database reporting solution for Windows and Mac OS X has received quite a few enhancements as well. The company also confirmed that Cocoa developers would receive Valentina iPhone Library for building client-server iPhone applications for free.

According to the people at Paradigma Software, Valentina Database Technology Release 4.2 brings new key features and dozens of user-requested improvements, spanning across all Valentina DB products. Those include:

- Recursive SQL Query Improvements. You can now work with ancestors in hierarchical data, along with SQL [TO|ON] LAST LEVEL.
- Pools of Queries. Set Properties for pools of queries as well as diagnostic tools for working with pools of queries.
- PHP Data Objects for Valentina Server. Developing web applications becomes more flexible with support for PHP Data Objects, a modern, lightweight database framework.
- Valentina for Shockwave for Mac OS X and Windows. Newly updated to support the most recent version of Adobe Director, build clients that work within all major web browsers and the Adobe Shockwave Player.
- Speed Improvements. A collection of enhancements and fixes improves the speed of some operations by 20%.

As for the user-requested features and improvements making their way into Valentina DB 4.2, these deliver overall robustness on all three operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X), Paradigma Software says. Valentina Reports 4.2 now boasts fresh, new features and improvements in both the developer toolkit, as well as in the report editor in Valentina Studio Pro. According to its makers, those enhancements include:

- Conditional Formatting. It is now possible to format reports based on report conditions.
- Calcuations and SUMs. New expression features are now available in both group and column footers in reports.
- Report Preview Engine. A new, faster preview engine allows much improved performance in creating and previewing reports.
- User Interface Improvements. New splitters and menu items in the Project tab and Reports Editor make options easier to understand and new features more accessible.

“Many features we have wanted in database reports were implemented in Valentina Reports (for example the new formatting patterns for numbers and dates). There isn’t a better, seamless database and reporting business intelligence solution available for REALbasic development,” Fabian Eschrich, chief developer of FAESCH Software, a cross-platform developer of enterprise class business software products for Mac OS X and Windows, said.

Valentina DB 4.2 and Valentina Reports 4.2 are immediately available for download from the Paradigma Software website, but you can grab Valentina Studio 4.2 right here, on Softpedia.

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