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Firebird 2.5 – german article
Thomas Steinmaurer made available for public download the PDF of his article about Firebird 2.5, published previously in the Entwickler Magazin.
Firebird 2.5 RC2
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that kits for field-testing the second release candidate for Firebird 2.5 are now available.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux, Windows and MacOSX/Darwin Intel platforms, here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=fb250_rc2
Please test well and report any bugs directly to the firebird-devel list (click http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=lists#fb-devel if you are not subscribed). Please do not post questions about this pre-release version to this list or to firebird-support.
The Firebird Team
Pesquisa para o FDD
Sorry, only for portuguese speakers…
Quem pretende participar da próxima edição do Firebird Developers Day no Brasil, respondam a pesquisa on-line para que saibamos quais são as suas preferências.
Firebird servers outage
As part of the ongoing effort to improve the reliability, availability of the project resources. The servers are being relocated into a high availability cluster, the outage should last no more than 4 hours.
Thanks for your understanding
Sean Leyne
FB 2.5 RC2 is coming
While you are reading this, Firebird 2.5 RC2 is being prepared for release. Users feedback will show if a RC3 will be needed, or if RC2 will be followed by the final release.
Firebird/RDB supported by the largest banking software maker in Russia
RedDB (based on Firebird) is now supported by BSS, the largest banking software maker in Russia. Read more (translated with Google).
Window Functions in Firebird 3
Adriano has published in his blog some information about the implementation of the OVER function in Firebird 3. Really cool.
By the SQL specification, window functions are a kind of aggregation, but which does not “filter” the result set of a query. The aggregated data is mixed with the query result set. That sort of functions are used with the OVER clause. Users of Oracle also knows window functions as analytical functions[…]
Database Master 1.7 released
Database Master is a powerful database development, management and administration software for the Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, FireBird and SQLite database systems. It allows you to manage databases, tables, views, procedures, indexes, triggers and provides productivity features for rapidly creating and executing SQL queries and connect some major database systems via ODBC and OleDb. Database Master is being imagesed for modern multi-cpu/core architecture.
From Firebird Foundation blog
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