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Testing needed for Firebird 2.0.4 and Firebird 2.1.0 packages for debian

May 28, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

As you may have noticed, debian experimental got firebird2.0 (2.0.4) and
firebird2.1 (2.1.0).

I would really appreciate if you give these some testing.

Firebird 2.1 CTE are supported by Active Query Builder

May 22, 2008 Sergey Smagin Leave a comment

Active Database Software announced release of the new minor version of Active Query Builder, a true two-way visual SQL query builder component that allows end-users to build complex SQL queries via the intuitive visual interface. The component is available as VCL and ActiveX control, as well as .NET WinForms component.

Recent improvements include:

Support of Common Table Expressions (CTE) for Firebird 2.1 and higher,

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New version of IBProvider

May 14, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

IBProvider team released own OLE DB Interbase and Firebird driver.

New implementation of the data type’s converter.
Test system was improved and found bugs were fixed. More than 15 000 tests coded.
Core was optimized.

Read more about new IBProvider data type converter

Performance improvement by using firebird client from cvs head

May 6, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

He doubled his performance by just switching the firebird client :

We’ve just built and tested ‘libfbclient.so’ from the head branch and tested
it against the release version 2.0.3. In other words, we only switched out
the client library, and left the database server itself intact at version
2.0.3.

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Firebird Data Wizard 8.4 released

May 6, 2008 SQL Maestro Team Leave a comment

SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Wizard 8.4, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management.

New version features:

Now it is possible to create a system scheduled task or convert a task created in Data wizard to system one.
Command line options have been implemented.
Since this version each task is displayed as a separated icon in the system tray when executing.
PHP Generator: a lot of new features. See full press-release for details.
Data Pump: now you can execute custom SQL scripts after connecting, before data importing and after pumping.
ASP.NET generator: since this version it is possible to specify a custom connection string.
All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made.

There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc). Read full press release.

Ubuntu 8.04 released with Firebird+Flamerobin included

April 24, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 is released with firebird2.0 and flamerobin included in their repository

Here is an easy guide for installing firebird2.0 and then follow the flamerobin 0.8.6 guide

ps: soon there will be an firebird2.1 package for ubuntu created (it wasn’t possible to include it in this short period of time after release)

Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors

April 9, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors used in small devices like phones
The top cpu used in that area are arm,x86,mips,powerpc according to linuxdevices survey

http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article077/embedded_processor_current_trend.jpg

Here are the build results for firebird2.0 package on debian on main cpu architectures used in debian

http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0

The latest port is for arm cpu , and here is the devel-thread
http://www.nabble.com/arm-port-patch-td16497801.html

Firebird and Rails using jruby

March 19, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

I’m using last jruby release with rails 2.0.2 and activerecord-jdbc-adapter.

Here is the rest of the article http://www.forniol.cat/?p=91

What is the current status of kinterbasdb?

March 17, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

As you may know, the KInterbasDB project is without maintainer, and
because Firebird project depends on it (for QA and other things), we
have to do something to ensure it’s bright future. I have considered the
option to take over this project, but at the end we decided to fork it
under Firebird Project for next reasons:

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1. KInterbasDB also supports InterBase, but we don’t have necessary
expertise to maintain or even expand it’s IB support (both products
divert from each other more and more with every new version). So if KDB
would be maintained by Firebird Project, the IB support would be
eventually dropped, which I would consider as unfair to current KDB users.

2. KInterbasDB is currently implemented as C extension library wrapped
in a pile of Python code. This arrangement puts significant difficulties
on any developer that would like provide it on various OS (Firebird runs
on more than Windows and Linux) and Python platforms (for example
IronPython, PyPy). The future of this project seems to be in complete
rewrite in pure Python that talks directly to Firebird using the wire
protocol instead using the client library, i.e. in the same way like
JayBird type 4 driver or .NET Provider driver works. So while we’ll
maintain current KDB for some time, it will be eventually replaced with
completely new driver written from scratch, and although we’d like keep
it backward compatible, it’s not necessary to do that. Hence it’s
possible that next major version of KDB would be different product anyway.

In light of these arguments, we’re about to start a new subproject under
Firebird Project for Firebird Python driver. This driver will have new
name and it’s first version will be direct fork of KInterbasDB 3.2 (the
KInterbasDB is licensed under BSD-like license.) with our patches to
make it work with Firebird 2.1. We also have snapshots of KDB 3.3 that
adds significant new feature – support for multiple transactions in
single connection, which would make the basis for next version (it’s
stable, but not thoroughly tested). This would be the last major version
that would build on KDB codebase. This subproject would be lead by me
(i.e. I will take the responsibility for its maintenance, testing,
release, website etc.), but I suppose that more developers would join in
future.

best regards
Pavel Cisar
Firebird Project QA Team

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