Video showing Delphi 2010 support for Firebird
A video was posted in EDN, showing the new Delphi 2010 support for Firebird, using the “official” dbExpress driver. Watch it here.
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Embarcadero Change Manager
Gordon Lucas, from Embarcadero, just dropped me a note about Embarcadero Change Manager product support for Firebird, saying that work is well undersway, and a sneak peak preview video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCFSPfKOlY
More info here.
Embarcadero to upgrade acquired Borland tools
Capabilities in the suite include native support for the Firebird open-source database. “Firebird is one of the most used open-source databases out there, like MySQL,” Rozlag said.
Read full article in Computerworld.
FlexTracer
Powerful, easy-to-use SQL tracer for Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Interbase/Firebird, Advantage Server, ODBC, ADO. You don’t need to have administrator privileges on Db-server File and registry operations are supported as well. FlexTracer dumps all executed SQL statements, their results, parameters and execution time. It’s also possible to merge a SQL statement with its parameters. Results can be saved in HTML or XLS formats for further analysis.
More information here.
DBConvert/DBSync for Firebird and MSSQL released
We are glad to announce the release of our new products for Firebird databases conversion and synchronization.
Convert and synchronize databases from Firebird to MS SQL or from MS SQL to Firebird rapidly and reliably! Operate with a whole database or select only needed tables, fields, indexes and foreign keys to proceed! Reach the desired result by simply configuring of several options through Wizard interface or in command line mode! DBConvert for Firebird & MSSQL is also applicable for MS SQL database migration to another MS SQL database. Moreover, DBConvert for Firebird & MSSQL is quite well for copying Firebird database to another Firebird database.
Please, find more info about DBConvert for Firebird and MS SQL at
http://www.dbconvert.com/convert-firebird-to-mssql-pro.php?DB=11
More information about DBSync for Firebird and MS SQL is available at
http://www.dbconvert.com/convert-firebird-to-mssql-sync.php?DB=11
Best regards,
Dmitry Narizhnykh
http://dbconvert.com
Firebird 2.1.3 RC2
The Team is pleased to announce that the second (hopefully final) release candidate builds are ready to field-test. Builds for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel are available. Download HERE and enjoy. As always, your feedback to the firebird-devel list would be welcome.
dbExpress driver for Firebird
dbExpress Driver for Firebird is a high quality driver providing optimum performance for Firebird service data accessing operation.
Read more and download it here.
The last big chance for Firebird?
Marco Cantu talks about Firebird SFCCA award, and says:
The Firebird open source database server wins a SourceForge Community Choice Award (in the “Best Project for Enterprise” category). This is certainly a very good sign of its popularity. At the time MySQL future is far from clear, due to multiple project spin-off following Oracle acquisition of Sun (and MySQL), Firebird has a chance to stand out. Maybe its last big chance, I’m not sure.
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David I post about SFCCA and Firebird
The open source, SourceForge community, has voted for the 4th annual community choice awards. The best open source project for enterprise was Firebird SQL. Some application developers and database professionals know that the genesis of Firebird is Embarcadero InterBase. In fact, if you look at the source code, you’ll see copyright notices that are also in Embarcadero Technologies‘ InterBase SMP SQL database. 185,000 votes were cast by community members.
Stay tuned to the Embarcadero Developer Network for news about our support for Firebird in future versions of all of our products. We look forward to a great future working closely with the Firebird community.
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