Firebird Database with more than 1000 Stored Procedures
Here is one picture with a Database that contains more than 1000 Stored Procedures
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
FBClone 2.2.1 released – This is not only a bugfix version it can “normalize” a multi charset database
FBClone 2.2.1 is released to google code
This is more than a “bugfix release” for FBClone here are a few of new features and fixes:
-It Can “normalize” a multi charset database by ignoring all “character set” definitions from source db
See flags -ics -ko in combination with -tc UTF8.
-It supports domains in SP parameters as well as NOT NULL, TYPE OF and COLLATE.
-It’s changed creation order of UNIQUE/FOREIGN and VIEW TRG/TABLE TRG as suggested by users in issues.
You need to use it from command line and specify the source and target database
fbclone source employee.fdb target new_db.fdb user sysdba password *****
News via Pierre Yager tweet
.NET Data provider : Firebird POSITION unexpected behavior?
Question and Response of the day on the Stack Overflow firebird tag.
The result is a bug filled in the Firebird tracker
Firebird Database Events and Message-oriented Middleware (part 2)
Part two of the previous article is now online : Introducing message brokers and message queues
Firebird on Debian + Raspberry PI = Love
All in all the Debian Firebird port on Raspberry is very good : It’s quite a nice ARM server for 35$
here are my experiments and all worked as it should (like a similar
x86/x64 server) without issues.
http://mapopa.blogspot.ro/2012/11/debian-and-raspberry-pi-love-small-arm.html
Firebird 2.5.2 sub-release is available with many bugfixes
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.2 — a minor sub release is available
This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. All users upgrading from Firebird 2.5.1 are strongly advised to migrate databases using gbak backup/restore, see the details in the release notes. To download Firebird 2.5.2, please visit the Downloads section.
Firebird Database Events and Message-oriented Middleware
Firebird developers can use Firebird events to notify clients about changes in database record data. In this article, I will show and discuss some limitations of Firebird events and compare possible workarounds with a solution based on message-oriented middleware.
Do you use Firebird SQL in your project? Put “Powered by Firebird” on your website
Do you use Firebird SQL in your project? Put “Powered by Firebird” or “Firebird is burning withing” logo
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-gloat-logos/
October Month Changes for Firebird 2.5.x Release branch
Here are the source code changes for Firebird 2.5.x branch in the Month of October :
– Fix compilation for semaphore classes [57221]
– Backport fix for CORE-3946 – UNICODE collations does not work with ICU 49 [57236]
– Fixed the backporting bug introduced while fixing CORE-3902 [57244]
– Avoid a sweep pass for temporary tables, as the sweeper always sees those tables as empty, but even setting them up as empty has a non-zero cost [57265]
Beta version of IBPhoenix Firebird Replicator 4.1 is available for public tests
The beta version of the IBPhoenix Replicator V4.1 is now available for public testing. Documentation in PDF format. An evaluation key, valid for two weeks, can be accessed via the following web page on ibphoenix.com.