News from the Firebird developers.
After two years of squashing bugs Debian 6.0 Squeeze is released , in the new version Firebird 2.1.3 is included that is considered quite stable and supported for development if you don’t use the new features from 2.5. Here is the guide for installing it on Debian stable systems from official repository.
DBD::Firebird is registered in perl cpan’s module list and soon we will upload the first tar.gz release (when is considered stable enough)
Until then the module is hosted in github and can be used and tested :
Stefan has improved the Windows support also fixed many tests , here are some of the commit messages:
Improved support for MinGW, added support for ActivePerl, Removed some obsolete tests, All tests, now use testlib.pl and Test::More (except 60leaks.t)
Register and vote now for Firebird
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2010-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-93/database-of-the-year-855903/
Someone please post it on Firebird-general too , (I’m marked as spammer there) . Also put it on other Firebird communities
We have made an comparison of functions between Oracle and FireBird to avoid the nice (but incomplete) UDF-library UDF4Ora. Most of the Oracle functions are similar to FireBird- or FreeAdhocUDF-functions. Here you find a complete liste of comparison.
If you are interested in one (or more) not presented functions send an eMail to help@freeadhocudf.org.
Christoph Theuring / FreeAdhocUDF.org
Trace API support in ADO.NET provider for Firebird (FbTrace). Read more…
ISQL has an “add” command to interactively insert records in a table.
Syntax is “add table_name” then it asks for values of each field
More about this command on Firebird-Devel list
Dimitry Yemanov wrote about the complete Firebird 2.5 reference and how will be structured
I’m starting working on the contents for the complete Firebird 2.5
Language Reference with a hope to have it completed this winter. All the
appropriate questions and issues will be posted here in order to keep
everybody in sync. The first thing to discuss would be the document
structure.Here is what I have in mind:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/rabbits/dimitr/LangRef.html
It’s just a draft and any feedback is welcome.
The major difference from what we have now is that the syntax diagrams
(along with the detailed description of the every clause) is moved to
the appendix A.The major chapters contain the introduction to the appropriate
statements and the information on how to apply them to the common usage
patters instead.
IBReplicator V4.0.3 is available for download.Updated release notes.
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AnyDAC for Delphi can be immediately downloaded from the download page.
What is new in v4.0.5 and what is AnyDAC ?
Today we uploaded a new version “adhoc 20101206″ of FreeAdhocUDF – the St.Nicholas edition.
There are some bugfixes, raise of exactness in some functions and 16 new functions (totally now 580!), among more UTF-8 versions of existing functions.
This is a recommended update. The most interesting new functions are
– F_TZVALUETOUTC which shows the diff of local time to UTC in hours
– F_LOCAL2UTC which converts the local server time to UTC
– F_UTC2LOCAL which converts UTC to the local server time
Whith this new functions you can merge now easyly dates from different timezones into one database.
(Nearly) all functions are running in Windows and Linux, with InterBase and FireBird, with 32 and 64bit
FreeAdhocUDF is licenced under the LGPL and you can use it without costs also in commercial projects – see licence.
You can download it from ftp://ftp.FreeAdhocUDF.org/FreeAdhocUDF/
Documentation found at http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/index_eng.html
For all kind of questions and bug-reports use eMail help@freeadhocudf.org
adhoc dataservice / Christoph Theuring
