Upscene, who produces well known Firebird tools, like DBWorkbench, IBLogManager, etc. announces that this is the last week of the “New Year’s sale” promotion. All the products has 25% discount, using the coupon code NY2011.
Marco Cantu posted in his blog:
…While most of the questions are on the choice and number of servers used (MS SQL Server being the most widely adopted, Oracle the most critical, and Firebird has a significant 4% 5.5% presence for large companies). Other questions are tuned for Embarcadero products (like evaluating the need for automating some DBA tasks). A few questions are interesting for their broad perspective, like those focused on the relationship between developers and DBAs…
Btw, interesting that there is no mention of Embarcadero’s Interbase in the survey results.
Wishing to every FirebirdNew’s visitor, and to all FB developers, a very happy Christmas and an awesome New Year!
The support for a BOOLEAN datatype was the third most voted feature in the Firebird tracker. The deal with it was about make it right and complete, having booleans expressions allowed where values are expected, and vice versa. Oracle did it wrong and they BOOLEAN is crap.
Yesterday I finished and committed this support for Firebird 3. You can use them like any other type. You can index it, aggregate by it and sort by it. If you have an index on a boolean field, you can also do indexed searches by its negated form (NOT field).
Read full post in Adriano’s blog.
From Adam Witkowski <adamwitkowski3@gmail.com>
Hi,We have created a free application that allows the user to make
reports out of Firebird data base in an easy way.If you are interested in it check our project’s website:
http://sites.google.com/site/datavisualizationapplication/
Best regards,
Adam Witkowski
Exclusive Christmas performance 
I hope the guys will enjoy it!
Band is:
Drums: Alex “Bonham” Peshkov
Guitar: Vlad “Vai” Khorsun
Guitar: Claudio “Friedman” Valderrama
Bass: Adriano “Harris” Fernandes
Vocal: Dmitry “Plant” Yemanov
Hello All Firebirders!
Today we start very important activity – building Firebird Case Studies catalog.
WHAT IS CASE STUDY?
Case study is an example of real-world implementation of certain product.
Case study should be very specific and describe:
WHY FIREBIRD PROJECT NEEDS YOUR CASE STUDIES?
Sean Leyne announced in the Firebird-General discussion list, that the Firebird official web site, the tracker and wiki will be offline on next sunday, November 28th, between 14:00 and 17:00 GMT, due to network maintenance.
Brazilian magazine ActiveDelphi, ed. 81, brings Firebird 2.5 in the cover article. The article shows the major enhancements of the latest FB release.
From Marco Cantu’s blog:
Now, this could be a very good opportunity for all of the other open source database servers (and also some of paid ones!), particularly the most popular ones like Firebird and PostgreSQL. I’m particularly fond of Firebird (the InterBase offspring) and use it in many projects and did a lot of consulting to Delphi developers using it. Can this be the rise of Firebird? MySQL with its huge popularity has certainly obscured it, so it could be a good time to act.
