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EMS DB Comparer for MySQL is an excellent tool for MySQL database comparison and synchronization. It allows you to view all the differences in compared database objects and execute an automatically generated script to synchronize structure of MySQL databases and eliminate all or selected differences. The program has the ability to automate MySQL database schemas comparison and synchronization task using the helpful Console Application. Having EMS DB Comparer for MySQL you can work with several projects at once, define MySQL comparison parameters, print difference reports, and alter modification scripts. Its user-friendly interface greatly simplifies discovering and eliminating differences in MySQL database structure saving your time and therefore money.

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The Advanced Data Generator is test data generator tool. It can generate real-life-like data into your database, SQL script or CSV files.

It includes libraries with real-life data, like first names, last names, company names and much more. Many datatypes supported, include BLOBs.

Several databases connectivity types supported:

• ODBC
• ADO
• InterBase
• Firebird
• MySQL.

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Database Workbench is the developer tool that supports the InterBase and Firebird database engines. The license price is dependent on the database engine support needed.

• Supports Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g
• Supports InterBase 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x (2007) and 9.x (2009)
• Supports Firebird 1, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.1
• Supports MySQL 4, 4.1, 5.x and 6
• Supports Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, 7, 2000 and 2005 including MSDE 1 & 2/SQL Express
• Supports NexusDB 2.07 and higher
• Work with multiple databases/connections
• Create and modify database objects
• Use the Conceptual or Physical Diagramming Tool
• Debug Stored Procedures and Triggers
• Visual Plan Analyzer
• SQL Insight
• Two-way Visual Query Builder
• Datapump functionality to/from ODBC and ADO datasources
• Table/Index/etc Migration from ODBC/ADO
• Schema Migration and Schema Compare tools
• Export data to dbf, txt, csv, xls and dwx
• Extract Metadata
• Generate test data (even BLOBs)
• BLOB Editor/Viewer with OLE support
• Enterprise Manager, including User Manager and Database Services, Backup and Restore
• Print metadata
• Customizable (Code) Templates
• Dockable tools - arrange your workspace
• and much more…

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It is a combined component (DataSet, Provider, ClientDataSet and UpdateSQL). If you are used to use ClientDataset, you may want to specify sql statement for each Modify, Delete and Insert sql. This is provided by TMsDataAdapter. It also allows you to change your connection easily from ADO to DBX or IBX or BDE. You can change your connection bridge with minimal source change. Don’t forget that it works based on MIDAS.

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NextGrid is powerfully native Delphi and C++ Builder component.

Main Features:

• Attractive and modern user interface (native OS styles supported)
• Easy to use columns editor in design time
• Easy to use properties and methods in run-time
• 2 Grid Styles (Report and Slides)
• Compact size (small footprint in final application)
• 19 column types (more is planned)
• 5 header styles
• 15 inplace and standalone editors
• Indicator, footer, input line included
• Written from scratch without inheriting limited StringGrid or ListView
• Unicode and RTL support
• And much more…

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Vis PDF Lib is a Delphi and C++ Builder component for creating PDF documents. VisPDF does not use any DLL or other software to create PDF files. The VisPDF distribution includes the complete help system and many demo programs: PDF console application samples, PDF GUI application samples, server PDF application sample etc.

VisPDF Lib allows you to load existing PDF files and edit them in the following manner:

• Print text and draw on an existing PDF document using it as a canvas
• Add audio, video and text annotations
• Change the size and resolution of specific pages and the whole document
• Add, delete and copy pages
• Encrypt and sign the document
• Edit the document properties
• and much more…

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TPrintPreview is a descendent of TScrollBox and has properties of both TScrollBox and TPrinter classes. Key features of TPrintPreview are:

• Supports almost unlimited amount of pages
• Automatically adjusts printer’s paper size and orientation at the print time
• Automatically adjusts mapping modes
• Preview pages can be scaled with an arbitrarily zoom factor
• Shows created pages while new pages are being processed
• Displayed pages can be scrolled by mouse dragging
• Pages can be saved/restored to/from disk
• Each page is accessible as a Windows Metafile image
• Has some methods for rendering rich text format
• Can manage custom forms (custom paper sizes)
• Allows background and annotation for both print and preview pages
• Both preview and print pages can be displayed in grayscale, with ability to adjust brightness and contrast
• Allows inserting, replacing, editing, deleting, and reordering of pages freely at any time
• By using dsPDF library, can save pages as PDF
• When GDI+ is available, can save pages as multi-page TIFF image
• Has a complete set of events

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TPicShow is an image slider control with 172 transitional effects in pure Delphi code. The major characteristics of TPicShow are:

• Image transition can be controlled programatically
• Image can be stretched or centered in the client area of the control
• Control can show a background image as centered, stretched, or tiled
• Transition process can use a separate thread
• New transitional effects can be easily implemented and added.

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Workflow Studio is a Delphi/C++Builder VCL framework for Business Process Management (BPM). With Workflow Studio you can easily add workflow and BPM capabilities to your application,by allowing you or your end-user to create workflow definitions and running them.

Here are some examples of business process that can be automated by using Workflow Studio:

• Order management
• Sales management
• Hiring process
• Help desk tasks
• Sales and marketing tasks
• Project management
• Quality checking
• Warranty management
• Software deployment
• Product requirement and specification
• Expense tracking

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TAnimateImage is a windowed control similar to TImage for displaying images of an image list on a form. You only need to assign a TImageList component (or its descendant) to its Images property, and set the FrameIndex property to the index of your desired image on the image list.

Of course, TAnimateImage can animate images of an image list too. If you have frames of an animation as Bitmap or Icon, this component offers the easiest way to animate them. For this purpose, TAnimateImage provides some properties to specify interval, segment, and direction of images for the animation.

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