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News from the Firebird developers.

The Lazarus 0.9.24 release date

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One of the best held secrets in the Lazarus community is the release date of Lazarus 0.9.24. Sometimes people ask when the next Lazarus release will be. The only correct answer is: “When it is finished”. And even the Lazarus developers don’t know when that is.

Firebird Maestro 7.9 released

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Firebird Maestro SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.9, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development.

New version features:

  • Starting with this version you can reorder columns for existing tables. It is also possible to reorder parameters for a stored procedure.
  • Now it is possible to cancel a long running query execution (Firebird 2.1) and data fetching (all Firebird versions).
  • The SQL Formatter for DML statements (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) is fulfilled.
  • The UTF8 character set is added to the Create Database Wizard.
  • BLOB Viewer: it is now possible to save all BLOBs from a table to a given directory.
  • Data Import Wizard: the speed of loading of Excel files has been significantly increased.

There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4671/

Firebird Data Wizard 7.8 released

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Firebird Data Wizard by SQL Maestro Group SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Data Wizard 7.8, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management.

New version features:

  • ASP.NET Generator Wizard is implemented.
  • New Shell Application with Ribbon toolbars (like Office 2007) and more.
  • Unicode/UTF-8 support.
  • PHP Generator: now it is possible to create a lookup menu for a column using a custom value list (not only foreign keys).
  • Data Pump: now optimized for Microsoft.Jet engine.
  • Data Import: the speed of loading of Excel files was significantly increased.
  • All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made.

There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc), see http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4457/

mojoportal New Setup System landed in svn trunk

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Heads up to anyone working with the sourcecode from svn trunk. I’ve just merged the new Setup system. The new system provides a lot more helpful information during setup and is designed such that if an error happens, the process can continue if the cause of the error is corrected.

Firebird Maestro 7.7 released

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Firebird Maestro SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.7, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development.

New version features:

  • Unicode/UTF-8 data management.
  • Since this version Firebird Maestro works fine with embedded Firebird server.
  • Transaction Browser is implemented (Firebird 2.1). This feature is very useful for DBAs who want to monitor the users’ activity.
  • Support of database triggers from Firebird 2.1 is added to the software.
  • Database Designer: a possibility of locking/unlocking diagram objects is added.
  • It is now possible to execute SQL scripts after connect and before disconnect to/from a database.

There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4443/

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