News from the Firebird developers.
By philippe on Thursday 29 May 2008
Since I helped Mandriva to do their packages for Firebird, I jumped and with Michal, we made things happen
Users of Opensuse 10.0,10.1,10.3 and future 11.0 but also SLE 10 can now just use the server:database repository and get Firebird 2.0.4
As soon as the Firebird Project will publish Firebird 2.1.1, packages will be there too.
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.
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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:
IBProvider team released own OLE DB Interbase and Firebird driver.
Read more about new IBProvider data type converter
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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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Wizard 8.4, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management. |
New version features:
There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc). Read full press release.
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 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
We finally solved the last major problem in the Firebird 2.0x build for Solaris 10 AMD 64bit. Whenever we tried to include editline in the build isql_static would coredump. We tracked the problem down
I’m using last jruby release with rails 2.0.2 and activerecord-jdbc-adapter.
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