Firebird 2.0.1 RC
Release Candidate kits of Firebird 2.0.1 are now available for download at the Firebird main site.
This version corrects many bugs reported since FB 2.0 was released, but does not contain any new features.
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!
New versions of SQLObject are now available
Versions 0.7.3b1 and 0.8.0b2 of SQLObject are now available.
SQLObject is an object-relational mapper for python. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be easy to use and quick to get started with.
SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Firebird. It also has newly added support for Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB).
Changes regarding Firebird support:
- Fixed a bug in FirebirdConnection caused by column names having trailing spaces.
- Fixed a missed import in firebirdconnection.py.
- Remove a leading slash in FirebirdConnection.
Firebird Developers Day 2007 – Survey
For Brazilians (and Portuguese speakers in general) that pretend to attend the next FDD edition (2007), please answer the survey available at infopoll.net/live/surveys/s30419.htm to let us know about what is your expectations for the conference.
Interbase Stored Procedure Grammar
One of our customer recently wanted to perform some heavy duty computations on his Interbase Stored Procedures (analysis and transformations).
Instead of plunging head on in an ad-hoc tool, we started to build a general parser. So we had to start-off with a BNF grammar. We already presented a simplified Sql grammar for the main INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and SELECT requests. So we extended this grammar to handle the stored procedures as well.
Most of the grammar applies to Firebird as well. You can read the full article here.
Papers of Firebird Conference 2006
The papers (where available) for the Firebird Conference 2006 talks are available for download here (you need to right click and use “Save As”).
LinuxQuestions database poll
Every year, the site LinuxQuestions publishes a poll to check what is the preferred database for Linux users. It is your chance to vote for Firebird. You can vote here (need to login).
Poll about auto-index stats update in FB
Dear users,
I work at a project related to a possibility to have the index statistics auto-updated and humbly I ask your opinion. Please feel free to vote below.
TIA,
m. Th.
SEFIP now uses Firebird
SEFIP is an application used by almost 1.5 millions of companies in Brazil to collect/pay social welfare tributes. It is distributed by Caixa Econômica Federal (a federal bank), and in its latest version (8.3) it replaced InterBase 6.0 with Firebird. With this change, Firebird embedded installed servers base in Brazil grow in some millions.
You can find the announcement here (in portuguese – self extract exe containing a PDF file).
Happy New Year!
FirebirdNews would like to wish all Firebird users and developers a very happy new year! It seems that 2007 will be a very exciting year for Firebird, with two scheduled releases (2.1 and 3.0).
Who is better?
A quite interesting message/answer posted by Ann Harrison in the Firebird-Architect discussion list.
Re: [Firebird-Architect] Firdbird 2.0 vs the World
Posted by: “Ann W. Harrison”
Date: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:55 am ((PST))
rvbyron wrote:
open source databases, however, the list is not very extensive. Further,most of the comparisons are not referencing Firebird 2.0, but an earlier version of Firebird.
