Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.4.0.842
Version 8.4 Build 842 - February 27; 2026$$$New portable application mode via command-line options or marker file.$$$New zip file download for easy installs; scripted installs; and portable app mode support.$$$New export/import all options choices on the login window (useful for portable mode.)$$$Fixed an issue showing the sqlbuilder on Oracle 12.1.0.$$$Big performance improvements when editing large SQL files.$$$Big performance improvements with replace all on large SQL files.$$$Several changes for high DPI per monitor support.$$$Improvements to the login window for dark mode.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.2.0.830
Version 8.3 Build 830 - January 27; 2026$$$Official support for Oracle 26ai.$$$Changed the show create commands to automatically show the results in the text view window.$$$Several fixes and improvements to the show create table command to handle different versions of dbms_metadata.$$$Fixed an issue where the SQL formatter wouldnt format certain complex queries.$$$Added Show sample create statement to the right click menu for tables and views in the SQLBuilder.$$$Added IDENTITY and VIRTUAL column info to the SQLBuilder.$$$Added DEFAULT column info to the sqlbuilder columns display.$$$Added new SQLBuilder column display options on the SQLBuilder options window.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.2.0.830
Version 8.3 Build 830 - January 27; 2026$$$Official support for Oracle 26ai.$$$Changed the show create commands to automatically show the results in the text view window.$$$Several fixes and improvements to the show create table command to handle different versions of dbms_metadata.$$$Fixed an issue where the SQL formatter wouldnt format certain complex queries.$$$Added Show sample create statement to the right click menu for tables and views in the SQLBuilder.$$$Added IDENTITY and VIRTUAL column info to the SQLBuilder.$$$Added DEFAULT column info to the sqlbuilder columns display.$$$Added new SQLBuilder column display options on the SQLBuilder options window.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.2.0.822
Version 8.2 Build 822 - October 17; 2025$$$Allow SET command options with on/off arguments to be grouped on one line.$$$Added new OUTPUT command to add text to spool files.$$$Fixed allowing blank field delimiter in exports.$$$Several performance improvements to the SQL editor.$$$Fix to ImpExpLites per monitor DPI handling.$$$Help file updates.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.2.0.822
Version 8.2 Build 822 - October 17; 2025$$$Allow SET command options with on/off arguments to be grouped on one line.$$$Added new OUTPUT command to add text to spool files.$$$Fixed allowing blank field delimiter in exports.$$$Several performance improvements to the SQL editor.$$$Fix to ImpExpLites per monitor DPI handling.$$$Help file updates.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.2.0.820
Version 8.2 Build 820 - September 1; 2025$$$Greatly improved SQL Formatter with new keyword casing and prefixed comma options.$$$New Case only formatting action.$$$New Autosave directory option.$$$Several improvements for Oracle Cloud connections.$$$Updated help section How to use the SQL Formatter.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.2.0.820
Version 8.2 Build 820 - September 1; 2025$$$Greatly improved SQL Formatter with new keyword casing and prefixed comma options.$$$New Case only formatting action.$$$New Autosave directory option.$$$Several improvements for Oracle Cloud connections.$$$Updated help section How to use the SQL Formatter.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.816
Version 8.1 Build 816 - August 12; 2025$$$Improvements to detecting misconfigured Oracle client installations.$$$Fixed an issue that could truncate dates based on user options.$$$Several performance improvements to incremental fetching.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.816
Version 8.1 Build 816 - August 12; 2025$$$Improvements to detecting misconfigured Oracle client installations.$$$Fixed an issue that could truncate dates based on user options.$$$Several performance improvements to incremental fetching.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.814
Version 8.1 Build 814 - July 17; 2025$$$New substitution variable constants (pseudo-vars) for tab name; tab filenames; workspace filenames and some standard datetime values. See Substitution Constants in the help for the list.$$$Added Oracle 23ai url error support to login errors.$$$Improved support for Oracle 21+ value lobs including JSON.$$$Improved text search on wide scripts.$$$Fixed a possible startup error on Terminal Server systems.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.814
Version 8.1 Build 814 - July 17; 2025$$$New substitution variable constants (pseudo-vars) for tab name; tab filenames; workspace filenames and some standard datetime values. See Substitution Constants in the help for the list.$$$Added Oracle 23ai url error support to login errors.$$$Improved support for Oracle 21+ value lobs including JSON.$$$Improved text search on wide scripts.$$$Fixed a possible startup error on Terminal Server systems.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.814
Version 8.1 Build 814 - July 17; 2025$$$New substitution variable constants (pseudo-vars) for tab name; tab filenames; workspace filenames and some standard datetime values. See Substitution Constants in the help for the list.$$$Added Oracle 23ai url error support to login errors.$$$Improved support for Oracle 21+ value lobs including JSON.$$$Improved text search on wide scripts.$$$Fixed a possible startup error on Terminal Server systems.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.812
Version 8.1 Build 812 - June 16; 2025$$$New 23ai JSON support.$$$New JSON and Boolean 23ai types in desc[ribe] command.$$$New clear dboutput command.$$$Explore file will now explore the workspace file if the tab doesnt have a file associated with it.$$$Added editor hotkeys Ctrl+Shift+< and > to go to modified sections of the text.$$$Added Ctrl-Click to the Find button to start from top instead of current position.$$$Improvements to multi-caret editing.$$$Improved the Find in results window to prompt for fetching more records in incremental fetch mode.$$$Several performance and display improvements for the datagrid.$$$Fixed a word wrap issue in the cell details viewer related to left to right languages.$$$Fixed an issue with the scratch results window not displaying correctly.$$$Fixed an issue where transposed mode could show a duplicate fixed column.$$$Fixed an issue with caret placement in some cases of the popup typing helper.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.812
Version 8.1 Build 812 - June 16; 2025$$$New 23ai JSON support.$$$New JSON and Boolean 23ai types in desc[ribe] command.$$$New clear dboutput command.$$$Explore file will now explore the workspace file if the tab doesnt have a file associated with it.$$$Added editor hotkeys Ctrl+Shift+< and > to go to modified sections of the text.$$$Added Ctrl-Click to the Find button to start from top instead of current position.$$$Improvements to multi-caret editing.$$$Improved the Find in results window to prompt for fetching more records in incremental fetch mode.$$$Several performance and display improvements for the datagrid.$$$Fixed a word wrap issue in the cell details viewer related to left to right languages.$$$Fixed an issue with the scratch results window not displaying correctly.$$$Fixed an issue where transposed mode could show a duplicate fixed column.$$$Fixed an issue with caret placement in some cases of the popup typing helper.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.812
Version 8.1 Build 812 - June 16; 2025$$$New 23ai JSON support.$$$New JSON and Boolean 23ai types in desc[ribe] command.$$$New clear dboutput command.$$$Explore file will now explore the workspace file if the tab doesnt have a file associated with it.$$$Added editor hotkeys Ctrl+Shift+< and > to go to modified sections of the text.$$$Added Ctrl-Click to the Find button to start from top instead of current position.$$$Improvements to multi-caret editing.$$$Improved the Find in results window to prompt for fetching more records in incremental fetch mode.$$$Several performance and display improvements for the datagrid.$$$Fixed a word wrap issue in the cell details viewer related to left to right languages.$$$Fixed an issue with the scratch results window not displaying correctly.$$$Fixed an issue where transposed mode could show a duplicate fixed column.$$$Fixed an issue with caret placement in some cases of the popup typing helper.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.810
Version 8.1 Build 810 - April 23; 2025$$$Several improvements to the Oracle 23ai support.$$$Added Open error url button to the error window to show error urls reported by the Oracle 23ai client.$$$Documented the -t: command-line option to set TNS_ADMIN.$$$Fixed an issue where the popup typing helper (Ctrl-Spacebar) wouldnt refresh the current schema.$$$Fixed an issue with caret placement in some cases of the popup typing helper.$$$Fixed an issue when closing the application with a pending SQLBuilder load.$$$Fixed an issue handling certain EZConnect Plus logins.$$$Added Ctrl-Click to the Find button to start from top instead of current position.$$$Added Show private tab menu option on the advanced options page for users whod like to use Private tabs. Generally its better to use multiple instances of Golden with separate logins.$$$Added Open file into current tab menu command.$$$Many small performance improvements.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.1.0.810
Version 8.1 Build 810 - April 23; 2025$$$Several improvements to the Oracle 23ai support.$$$Added Open error url button to the error window to show error urls reported by the Oracle 23ai client.$$$Documented the -t: command-line option to set TNS_ADMIN.$$$Fixed an issue where the popup typing helper (Ctrl-Spacebar) wouldnt refresh the current schema.$$$Fixed an issue with caret placement in some cases of the popup typing helper.$$$Fixed an issue when closing the application with a pending SQLBuilder load.$$$Fixed an issue handling certain EZConnect Plus logins.$$$Added Ctrl-Click to the Find button to start from top instead of current position.$$$Added Show private tab menu option on the advanced options page for users whod like to use Private tabs. Generally its better to use multiple instances of Golden with separate logins.$$$Added Open file into current tab menu command.$$$Many small performance improvements.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.806
Version 8.0 Build 806 - January 8; 2025$$$New multi-caret editing; modeled after VSCodes multi-caret; multi-word selection editing. See the help section Advanced SQL editor features$$$Select current word if none selected: Ctrl-M$$$If selection exists than Ctrl-M adds new selection and caret to editor.$$$Ctrl-Shift-M selects all occurances of the current selection to multi-caret selection list.$$$Removed the delay on the SQLBuilder table right click menu.$$$Impoved the keyboard shortcut editor; especially sorting by shortcut keys.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.806
Version 8.0 Build 806 - January 8; 2025$$$New multi-caret editing; modeled after VSCodes multi-caret; multi-word selection editing. See the help section Advanced SQL editor features$$$Select current word if none selected: Ctrl-M$$$If selection exists than Ctrl-M adds new selection and caret to editor.$$$Ctrl-Shift-M selects all occurances of the current selection to multi-caret selection list.$$$Removed the delay on the SQLBuilder table right click menu.$$$Impoved the keyboard shortcut editor; especially sorting by shortcut keys.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.804
Version 8.0 Build 804 - October 25; 2024$$$Fixed SQLBuilder query for Oracle versions below 12C.$$$Removed empty SQLBuilder column if a table has no column comments.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.804
Version 8.0 Build 804 - October 25; 2024$$$Fixed SQLBuilder query for Oracle versions below 12C.$$$Removed empty SQLBuilder column if a table has no column comments.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.802
Version 8.0 Build 802 - October 21; 2024$$$SQLBuilder Improvements:$$$Allow header click sorting for the Objects list.$$$Added separate Table; View and Synonym show options.$$$Improved multi-select handling in the Columns list.$$$Added improved create query with selected columns right click menu items.$$$General Improvements:$$$Added the ability to use a login item name in the -u command-line switch instead of user@database$$$Changed command-line autorun scripts to always fetch entire queries regardless of incremental fetch settings.$$$Improved fetching feedback messages in incremental fetch mode.$$$Added FETCH # ONLY command to stop autofetching if the grid is scrolled to the bottom.$$$Fixed issue starting ImpExpLite from the Tools menu.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.802
Version 8.0 Build 802 - October 21; 2024$$$SQLBuilder Improvements:$$$Allow header click sorting for the Objects list.$$$Added separate Table; View and Synonym show options.$$$Improved multi-select handling in the Columns list.$$$Added improved create query with selected columns right click menu items.$$$General Improvements:$$$Added the ability to use a login item name in the -u command-line switch instead of user@database$$$Changed command-line autorun scripts to always fetch entire queries regardless of incremental fetch settings.$$$Improved fetching feedback messages in incremental fetch mode.$$$Added FETCH # ONLY command to stop autofetching if the grid is scrolled to the bottom.$$$Fixed issue starting ImpExpLite from the Tools menu.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.801
Version 8.0 Build 801 - September 12; 2024$$$New Explore file option on the tab right click menu.$$$Fixed ImpExpLite8 options and help file.$$$Improved check for changed file on save.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.801
Version 8.0 Build 801 - September 12; 2024$$$New Explore file option on the tab right click menu.$$$Fixed ImpExpLite8 options and help file.$$$Improved check for changed file on save.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.800
Version 8.0 Build 800 - August 22; 2024$$$First release of Golden 8.x!$$$New redesigned and faster SQLBuilder.$$$New alias handling integrated with the SQLBuilder.$$$New Join Builder table right click menu option.$$$New Create select/insert/update statements right click options in the SQLBuilder.$$$New incremental fetching option returns query results faster.$$$New cancelable Fetch All command.$$$New cancelable client-side sorting.$$$New SHOW PARAMETERS command.$$$New DEFINE with no params to list defined prompt/substitution vars.$$$Improved memory usage.$$$New ImpExpLite8 included.$$$Dozens of performance and visual enhancements.$$$
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 8.0.0.800
Version 8.0 Build 800 - August 22; 2024$$$First release of Golden 8.x!$$$New redesigned and faster SQLBuilder.$$$New alias handling integrated with the SQLBuilder.$$$New Join Builder table right click menu option.$$$New Create select/insert/update statements right click options in the SQLBuilder.$$$New incremental fetching option returns query results faster.$$$New cancelable Fetch All command.$$$New cancelable client-side sorting.$$$New SHOW PARAMETERS command.$$$New DEFINE with no params to list defined prompt/substitution vars.$$$Improved memory usage.$$$New ImpExpLite8 included.$$$Dozens of performance and visual enhancements.$$$
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 7.4.0.740
Version 7.4 Build 740 - March 31; 2024$$$New ability to pin login items to the top of the login list.$$$New handling for the Show command including show create table.$$$The cell detail window can now be displayed in Edit mode.$$$Added new COLUMN LOOKUP script command to add dropdown lists for edit fields.$$$Added new COLUMN BLOBEDIT script command to add a file load button to edit fields that are blobs.$$$Added new help menu item to show script command help.$$$Improved display of table and column comments as popup hints in the SQLBuilder.$$$Improved handling of logins using alternate schemas.$$$Improved performance and appearance when using dark mode.
Benthic Software Golden x86 Version 7.3.0.738
Version 7.3 Build 738 - Feb 14; 2024$$$Fixed an issue showing column lists on certain Oracle 9 databases.$$$Performance improvement when showing constraints and indexes.
