hk_classes 0.8.2-test3 released
Release focus: Major bugfixes
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
OpenDBX 1.1.7 released
Release focus: Code cleanup , Read more on freshmeat.net.
Extracting meta data from Firebird system tables
This site lists example queries to retrieve information about tables, views, fields, indexes, constraints, triggers, generators, stored procedures, functions and users defined in the meta data of a Firebird database
[ED: hit the digg button]
nsFB 1.2 released
The changes in this release are as follows:This release adds support for importing a file into a BLOB and writing a BLOB into a file. Hexadecimal or base 64 string representations of data can be read from or written to the database.
GPRE/cobol patches on the way
Steve Boyd wrote on firebird-devel mailing list:
I am ready to submit my changes to GPRE to support RM/Cobol.
NULL Guide – translation to Russian is available
.net embedded firebird on vista report
It’s a winform .net 2 business app that is very data centric and we tested initially with the embedded FireBird database driver which I had a gut feeling was going to be trouble, but absolutely no problems at all and every aspect is significantly faster than on the same computer with the same hardware exactly but different operating systems.
you can read the full experience on code project
DevCo sponsoring Prague conference
Today the sponsors of the Prague Firebird conference were announced.
The list includes the soon to be spun out “Developer Tool Group” at
Borland, a.k.a. DevCo.
ThumbsPlus expands database support with firebird
ThumbsPlus (the photo file manager) stores its thumbnails in a database. Until recently, it was limited to using the Microsoft Access JET format, which is limited to 2 gigs.
Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide
The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready, and available at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-2-QuickStart.pdf