Hello,

In case you don't know, I have just released a new version of Metabase.

This release includes support for inserting rows in tables omitting the
auto-increment field values and make such field get the next
auto-increment value automatically in DBMS that support it.

The Microsoft SQL server version was enhanced to support native
auto-increment fields, primary keys and support several new types of
schema table alterations.

The Oracle driver has also enhanced to use triggers implicitly to
initialize the values of auto-increment fields when these values are
omitted or set to NULL in INSERT queries.

If you pick the MetaL and Metastorage bundle archives generated from the
CVS snapshots, it already includes the latest Metabase version:

http://www.meta-language.net/download.html#snapshots

My short term plan for Metastorage should address these issues:

- Use auto-increment fields omitting their values as it is faster on
some databases (like MS-SQL that requires INSERT query rewriting).

- BLOB class variable support

- Pattern matching support (LIKE operator) to implement new OQL
operatores like startswith, contains and endswith. This will depend a
Metabase feature to be added that will provide database pattern wildcard
escaping.

- Add code generation options file to let developers customize details
of generation to address better their projects: like PHP 5 optimized vs.
PHP 4 compatible, toggle the comments in the generated code, namespace
prefixes for class names, generate setter and getter functions, etc..

- Add the section of report classes of the Metastorage tutorial

- Support more database drivers with native auto-increment support (you
tell me which you want to use)

- Other important features (you tell me about it).

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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