C++ coders are needed for a pure Firebird/SDBC LibreOffice driver
Here is the bug with more info on how to help.
This bug needs to be fixed so we can replace Java-based HSQLDB database engine with Firebird in LibreOffice Base.
Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
Proposal for Firebird 3.0: Ditch the NONE as default charset
After some hot discussion in Firebird-Java, I want to propose to ditch
the NONE as default character set for newly created databases when no
database charset is specified.
Read the rest of the full thread on Firebird-Devel.
ANN: 2 new Trace API / FBTM screencasts: Parametrized query detection and enhanced error tracing
Two new Trace API / FB TraceManager screencasts have been made available:
The first is discussing the usage of the Trace API to detect
parametrized query reusage, which allows to check if you are re-using prepared statements in e.g. batch processing scenarios or not.
The second demo discusses the new error/warning tracing capabilities to
be expected in Firebird 2.5.2(http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3539) and its integration/usage in FB TraceManager.
Firebird Data Wizard 12.6 released
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Wizard 12.6, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management. |
Firebird Data Wizard provides you with a number of easy-to-use wizards to convert any ADO-compatible database to the Firebird database, import data into
Firebird tables, export data from tables, views and queries to most popular file formats as well as generate data-driven ASP.NET pages for your Firebird database.
New version introduces SQL Dump wizard, user-defined data type mappings, auto arranging target tables by dependencies and lots of other new features.
There are also other useful things as well as versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc). Read full press release.
ADO.NET provider for Firebird 2.7.7 released
The 2.7.7 version of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is ready for download. This version contains some bug fixes as well as new functionality. More info…
Ruby Firebird Extension Library – Fb bumped to version 0.7.0
подаръциWith following changes:
Make fb compatibile with Rubinius.
Add encoding attribute and force strings from database to that encoding under Ruby 1.9.x.
Revert to old object allocation method to prevent stack overflow.
Satisfy ISO C90.
Update:The Rubinius change had to be reverted to make MRI work.
Upscene Production, one of the best Firebird tools vendors, celebrates 10 year anniversary and gives 70% discount
News Via Mindthebird tweet
Upscene Production, one of the best Firebird tools vendors, celebrates 10 year anniversary and gives 70% discount: http://www.upscene.com
AnySQL Maestro 12.5 released
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of AnySQL Maestro 12.5, a powerful tool to manage any database engine accessible via ODBC driver or OLE DB provider (MS Access, SQL Server, Firebird, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc). |
AnySQL Maestro comes in both Freeware and Professional editions (more information).
New version features a powerful and easy to use data reporting tool, recognizing of auto increment columns, improved SQL editors and viewers and a lot of other useful things (full press release).
AnySQL Maestro 12.5 has been successfully tested with the latest Firebird ODBC drivers and all the latest Firebird database server versions up to 2.5.1.
#ubuntu 12.04 LTS released with Firebird 2.5.1
Ubuntu LTS is released and includes the latest firebird stable release 2.5.1
Massive code changes : Getting rid of legacy code dsql_nod
Adriano Fernandes finished a massive code drop and rewrite : Getting rid of dsql_nod