GTech Loader version 10.0.0.79 is Available

 

GTech Loader version 10.0.0.79

This GTech Loader update has a significant upgrade focused on boosting performance and will likely make a noticeable improvement in your export times.  All the main export loops (graphics and tabular) were optimized to improve performance.  You will get this boost by default.  There is also support for specifying the Oracle Fetch Buffer size which can make significant improvement, but you do have to set the buffer size in the GTech Loader configuration file.  Support for providing Oracle Hints in the SQL queries GTech Loader execute has been added (like /*+ NO_PARALLEL */). This feature was added for those who have minimal resources allocated to Oracle coupled with the many-table joins in GTech.

 There were also some Quality-of-Life improvements:

• More details in the logging, including a new logfile ending in .stats which appends the total tabular and graphic record counts after each run, so you can get a better picture of the export over time and may be able to identify issues the export (such as fewer tabular records exported from the previous time(s)).
• The Cancel button in the command-line version finally terminates the app and doesn't wait for the current Oracle query to finish.
• The supported Oracle version is now part of the Title bar text, so you don't have to guess which version you have any more.

Another option was brought back.  You can now choose between using the default dimension elements (reproducing what is in GTech), or using our old style dimensions that were a greatly simplified version of what was in GTech).

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10.00.00.79 - 2/20/26

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- NEW - #8835 - Settings to specify Oracle Hints for Graphics queries and Tabular Queries.

- NEW - #8836 - Setting to specify Oracle Fetch size.

- CHG - #8837 - The Most Recently Used file list was only saved if you did a conversion.  It has been changed to save more frequently.

- FIX - #8838 - If there are Oracle Exceptions in the main Graphics export loop, it will now stop the after 100 exceptions (for the table or feature it is processing)

- NEW - #8839 - The Detail Logfile now shows the total Tabular and Graphics records at the bottom of the file.

- CHG - #8839 - The location of the non-GUI application log file has been moved from the application's directory to %AppData%\Graphic Technologies Inc\GTech_Loader_10.

- NEW - #8840 - The supported Oracle version is now appended to the version number in the title bar.

- CHG - #8841 - Changed the Tabular Count increment from 1000 to 5000 in GUI mode.

- NEW - #8842 - A new .stats file is created with the other logfile and is appended if the file already exists.  This file contains CSV records: Data,Time,ConfigFileName,Property,Value.  The properties are currently Graphic_Rec, Tabular_Recs, and Total_Export_Time.   These statistics can be used to see how your data is growing and if there is an anomaly.

- FIX - #8843 - Cancelling the command-line mode dialog box, did not stop the conversion.  It does now.

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10.00.00.78 - 8/14/25

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- FIX - #8345 - The LIKE operator was not handling all wildcarded cases correctly.

- NEW - #8819 - Support added for using the old Style Dimension elements (instead of GTech ones).