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Writing UDFs for Firebird

October 21, 2009 Cantu 12 comments

An article by Ivan Komarov, explaining how to create UDFs for Firebird using C++, was published in The Code Project site.

FBScanner 2.6 released!

October 20, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

New version of FBScanner introduces significant increasing of SQLs processing, new logging approach to database with one-click log creation, real time configuration (restart of not required).

Now it also has full support of Firebird 2.5 (including SuperClassic architecture). Read more.

Why Firebird is cool?

October 19, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

IBSurgeon posted in their blog a new article showing “Why Firebird is cool”, and gives three reasons that can help you to show to non-fb people why our DB is so great ;-).

FB Scanner presentation

October 14, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

IB Surgeon published a slide presentation about FB Scanner, a great product that intercepts the traffic between Firebird <-> Clients and allow you to see what is going on (works with any FB version).

FBScanner: IBSurgeon’s tool to solve all types of performance problems with Firebird

View more presentations from Nataly Polyanskaya.

Se você está no Brasil, não deixe de conferir o preço especial do FBScanner na loja on-line da FireBase.

Differences between Firebird and InterBase, part 1: 32bit and 64bit

October 13, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

People from IBSurgeon started a serie of posts pointing actual differences between Firebird and InterBase. Many people still thinks that Firebird is kind of “free InterBase”, but the two projects are now quite different.

Read the first part about 32 and 64 bits support.

ERP Alternative uses Firebird

October 12, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

DBA Software Inc., a leading provider of manufacturing (MRP) solutions for small business, announced that its decision two years ago to base its flagship product, DBA Manufacturing Next-Generation, on the Firebird™ open-source SQL database has been an unqualified success.

“MySQL gets all the publicity when it comes to open-source databases,” said Michael Hart, President of DBA Software, “but based on our experience, Firebird deserves a share of the limelight. MySQL is great for the Internet, but Firebird is perfectly suited for software applications such as our manufacturing package. It has a small footprint, is easy to install, requires no administration, and is fast, stable, and secure.”

ESF Database Migration Toolkit – 6.1.25

October 10, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

This toolkit dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating to/from any of the following database/file systems: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Visual Foxpro, SQLite, FireBird, InterBase, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Paradox, Lotus, dBase, CSV/Text and transfer any ODBC DSN data source to them. Features »

News from the Firebird Foundation

October 6, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

Wed 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT	Bill Oliver Funds Another Week	Secretary
	Bill Oliver, of SAS, who started a new tradition a few months ago, of donating a “one-week run” of cash for development, has done it again! Thanks, Bill! Any others interested in funding a week? A sum of around $2,100 to $2,300 will do it.

Mon 21 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT	Annual General Meeting Announced	Vice-President
	Our Annual General Meeting will start on Monday 12 October 2009 at Noon GMT. The Agenda is available and will be built up as reports and nominations come to hand. It is TIME to step forward if you wish to indicate that you are available to serve on the new committee. Nominations will be required for the executive offices of President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. In addition, nominations may be made for non-executive positions. You can link through to the launch page for nominations from the Agenda.

Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:06:00 GMT	Pavel Cisar Relinquishes Grant	Committee
	Pavel Cisar, who has been using the grant allocation for development of QA tests for releases for some years, is relinquishing the grant from November forward. It doesn’t mean Pavel is giving up his task, though: he will carry on with his work. Philippe Makowski, who is the project’s other QA tester, already gave up his grant several months ago.