Firebird 2.0 Language Reference Update
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News from the Firebird developers.
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23.09.2008 – A new release is out. It brings new features like Firebird 2.1 support, tabbed browsing, etc. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X binaries and source code package are available for download. Here are the details.
The DDEX Provider v2.0.4 for Visual Studio has been released. Download it from
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
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the DDEX Provider v2.0.3 for Visual Studio has been released. This release contains all new registry files as well as reworked readme file for installation and one bug fix. Download it from http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
The final version of SP1 for VS2008 and .NET 3.5 is out for a while. And you may noticed, that there were some [more …]
Today, after some days/weeks, I finally created some noticable (= not only internals) progress with Entity Framework provider for Firebird.
Now, the provider is able to use, map, call, … stored procedures (and functions [very experimental]). You can select stored procedures from database, map these to some operations in EF, create “function imports” etc. You can see this working on picture:
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SQL Maestro Group announce the release of Firebird Maestro 8.7, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
New version features support for Firebird 2.1 Windows authentication and some interface improvements.
The company also announces the 30% discount for all their products till Jul 20.
This guide documents the changes made in Firebird 1.0 and 1.5 SQL since the fork from the open-sourced InterBase 6.0 codebase.
Here is the Pual Vinkenoog’s announcement on firebird-docs list
Just uploaded a Firebird 1.5 SQL Update Reference to this temporary location:
This is NOT ready for publication yet, but all the entries are there and (AFIACT) correct, except maybe in one or two places where I have to contact the developers for clarification.
I’ll commit the DocBook sources to the repository and build a version for publication. After that, I’ll start working on update refs for 2.0 and 2.1. After that, I guess we must take the 2.1 ref and start expanding it to a complete Firebird SQL reference. This last step may take some time 😉
This article was originally created for Databazovy Svet (in Czech) and covers a little bit more about this topic. This shortened version is focused only on solutions for Firebird, without any other stuff.
Firebird 2.1.x will be included in the top most popular linux distributions