Press and Events
Product Releases and Other News
January 2010
StarQuest announces availability of v3.6 of SQDR Plus. SQDR Plus for iSeries includes enhancements for HA (High Availability) environments. The new release of SQDR Plus for UDB supports incremental replication from IBM's new DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows v9.7. For more information or to download a free trial, see the SQDR Plus product page.
November 2009
StarQuest announces availability of v5.52 of the StarSQL database driver which extends 64-bit support to UNIX platforms, including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX & FreeBSD. StarSQL for Linux & UNIX now includes ODBCConfig, the unixODBC driver manager graphical interface for configuring data sources. For more information or to download a free trial copy, see the StarSQL product page.
February 2009
StarQuest announces availability of v5.5 of the StarSQL database driver. The new v5.5 release includes both the 32-bit driver and a new 64-bit version of the StarSQL for Windows driver. For more information or to download a free trial copy, see the StarSQL product page.
January 2009
StarQuest announces availability of v5.4 of the StarSQL database driver. The new release of the StarSQL ODBC driver adds support for DB2 9 for z/OS and DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX and Windows; support for i5/OS V6R1; support for Windows Vista and Server 2008; and enhanced UNICODE and international language support. For more information or to download a free trial copy, see the StarSQL product page.
August 2008
StarQuest announces availability of v2.5 of the StarSQL for Java database driver. The new release of the StarSQL JDBC driver adds support for Apache Derby (JavaDB) databases, support for DB2 v9 zOS and i5/OS V6R1, enhanced UNICODE support, improved buffer management and parsing, and improved exception handling..
April 2008
StarQuest announces availability of v3.4 of the StarQuest Data Replicator (SQDR) and SQDR Plus for iSeries. The new release of SQDR provides support for Windows Vista and Windows 2008 and the new release of SQDR Plus for iSeries supports incremental replication from IBM's new V6R1 release for the i5/OS platform. For more information or to download a free trial, see SQDR and SQDR Plus product pages
September 2007
StarQuest announces availability of v5.3 of the StarSQL ODBC software driver. This version supports the latest versions of the DB2 database management system in addition to the latest client operating systems, such as Windows Vista. StarSQL v5.3 also provides enhanced National Language Support for East Asian languages.
February 2007
StarQuest announces availability of v3.3 of the SQDR StarQuest Data Replicator solution. New features include support for incremental replication from DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows databases, "real-time" mirroring, and a centralized "publish" function that allows an administrator to manage which database tables can be replicated.
May 2006
SQDR 3.2 and SQDR Plus for iSeries 3.2 were released, offering enhancements to our incremental replication support, including improved performance, enhanced installation and management, and the use of OS/400 v5r4 as a source database.
August 2005
StarQuest Data Replicator 3.10 was released to support incremental replication from OS/400 when used with SQDR Plus for iSeries.
February 2005
StarSQL 5.20 included support for DB2 UDB for z/OS v8, and UNIX support added FreeBSD.
December 2004
SQDR 3.0 added replication of additional schema objects (indexes, views, and foreign constraints), subscription groups, and enhanced logging and error reporting. In addition, the architecture of SQDR has been redesigned in preparation for some exciting new features.
November 2004
StarSQL for Java 2.2 offered improved performance, support for DB2 UDB for z/OS v8, support for additional character sets, and many other enhancements.
June 2004
StarSQL 5.12 added wider support for UNIX and Linux, including HP-UX 11.
StarSQL for Java 2.1 offered support for Version 3.0 of the JDBC API, and included UDTs (User Defined Types), scrollable cursors, improved logging and trace facilities and SSL support.
StarSQL for iSeries and StarSQL/iSeries for Java are attractively priced packages for customers needing access only to IBM iSeries (AS/400) databases.
StarSQL for UDB and StarSQL/UDB for Java are attractively priced packages for customers needing access only to IBM DB2 UDB databases running on Windows and UNIX.
April 2004
SQDR 2.5 was a major revision of the StarQuest Data Replicator. It added support for LOB data, any-to-any replication, and multi-row fetch for improved performance. It also added support for MSDE 2000 as the control database, eliminating the need for SQL Server in some scenarios.
February 2004
StarSQL 5.1 included enhanced catalog support for DB2 for OS/390 v6 and v7, OS/400 V5R2, and DB2 UDB 8.1.
October 2003
StarSQL 5.0 added support for LOB data, user and password encryption, and improved support for two-phase commit transactions.
StarSQL for Java 2.0 added support for J2EE and the JDBC 2.0 API, including Data Source and transaction support.
June 2003
Client Access for UNIX was made available for Linux platforms. In addition, tn5250 device naming support was added to both ca5250 and xca5250, as well as Star5250 for Windows.
April 2003
StarLicense simplifies and unifies license management for all StarQuest products. The StarLicense server runs on Windows or UNIX platforms.
StarSQL 4.2 was the first StarQuest product to take advantage of StarLicense. Other StarQuest products soon followed.
January 2003
SQDR 2.0 added support for Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
October 2002
StarPipes for iSeries 3.0 added support for OS/400 v5r1 and later.
September 2002
StarSQL 4.10 ushered in a new era of support and enhancements for the flagship ODBC driver.
StarSQL for Java 1.1, a type 4 native Java JDBC driver designed for performance and reliability, was released.
June 2002
The StarQuest product line returns home to StarQuest Ventures, Inc. from Level 8 Systems.