What’s New in Studio 3T 2020.8 | Introducing Server 3T

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New product

Server 3T | Run migrations between SQL and MongoDB remotely

It’s been a while since we’ve done this, so we’re very excited to announce the launch of our latest tool, Server 3T  ? ? ?

Server 3T takes the weight off your MongoDB workloads by letting you run on-demand and scheduled jobs remotely, on your existing server.

Run on-demand SQL migrations with Server 3T


Running on-demand migrations

Run scheduled SQL migrations with Server 3T


Running scheduled migrations

The first version of Server 3T supports Windows servers and two migration tasks:

Additional tasks and server support will be announced with future releases.

New features

Collection Tab | Change sort order in one click

Instead of typing {_id:-1}, simply click on up and down arrows to set the sort order to {_id: 1} or {_id: -1} respectively.

Sort documents in a collection in one click

Connection Manager | Disconnect from all connections in one go

Disconnect from all connections simply by right-clicking on any item in the Connection Tree, and choosing Disconnect All.

Disconnect from all connections in one go

Connection Manager | Auto-detect and import connection strings copied to clipboard

Studio 3T now auto-detects connection strings copied to clipboard and gives you the option to easily import.

Studio 3T now auto-detects connection strings

Fixes and improvements

App-wide improvements

  • Improved responsiveness of auto-completion in scripts
  • Fixed issue with weird characters appearing as tab names
  • Improved performance when dropping large number of collections on Windows

Aggregation Editor

  • Restored missing right-click copy options

Dark Theme

  • Improved color definitions in Visual Query Builder
  • Improved visibility of separator labels on Ubuntu 20.04
  • Now showing dark title and toolbar on macOS

Data Compare & Sync

  • Fixed crash that could occur when editing a DCAS task on an undocked window

Export Wizard

  • Export units with cursor/selected documents as source can now be saved
  • “Other options” now updating whenever source is updated
  • Fixed issue related to export files being overwritten during failed current cursor exports
  • Fixed issues related to mongodump exports failing when collections contain a colon
  • Fixed issues with loading indicators shown on Ubuntu
  • Fixed crash on export issues on Linux with unsupported MongoDB version

Import Wizard

  • Fixed crash that could occur when clicking options on and off with BSON archive imports
  • Target collection now emptied when target database is disabled during BSON archive imports

Map-Reduce

  • Database names now displayed in Map-Reduce tab names
  • Restored missing right-click copy options

Quickstart Tab

  • Now showing the correct, updated colors in color-coded connections

Role Manager

  • Fixed issues with editing and updating role privilege actions

SQL Query

  • Restored missing right-click copy options

SQL to MongoDB Migration

  • Fixed issues with username label shown for Oracle connections
  • Improved custom SQL query in-app messaging

Visual Query Builder

  • Fixed UI issues on Linux

View the full list on our change log.

Many thanks to Paul Allington for flagging the weird characters appearing as tab names; Dalton Pearson for reporting that exports fail when collections contain a colon; Steve Thomas from Hacknotice for pointing out the issues with editing and updating role privilege actions; and to all other users who contributed to this list 🙂