Firebird related news
Rodmap is updated with the following schedule:
Alpha 2 has been released in January 2014;
The next testing release (Beta 1) is expected in Q2 2014.
Unstable v3.0 builds can be downloaded from the snapshot area.
Use the “Track Details” icon to discover the list of tasks currently scheduled for v3.0 Beta 1.
From the Dashboard Beta Release: 31 of 63 issues resolved
New Flamerobin snapshot uploaded to Debian unstable with the following changes
* use xz compression for snapshot source tarball
* New upstream snapshot
add support for more Firebird 3.0 reserved keywords
ask before deleting unsaved changes to SQL files
* switch to WxWidgets 3.0 (Closes: #742092)
Thanks to Olly Betts for the patch and the testing
Firebird Perl driver version 1.18 is released with the following changes
Sometimes you can be very useful if the content of some tables are migrated to Firebird Excel.
Possibly most applications your users know how to use Excel then be easy for them and easy to make your own queries, view charts, etc.. The steps are: Install […]
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What is new in ER/Studio Data Architect Version 9.6.1
New DBMS Platform Support – Firebird
Firebird 2.x: Officially supports Firebird 2.1 and 2.5.
Firebird 1.5: Officially supports Firebird 1.5.
This tutorial explains how to create a sqitch – enabled Firebird project, use a VCS for deployment planning, and work with other developers to make sure changes remain in sync and in the proper order.
We’ll start by creating new project from scratch, a fictional antisocial networking site called Flipr. All examples use Git as the VCS and Firebird as the storage engine.
Author tells his story on the blog first birthday:
When I launched, one year ago I did not knew if it would be read, if anyone is interested in what I had planned to write, but I thought it needed a blog in Castilian language to help us learn more about Firebird, because it is an engine very good data bases and documentation was missing in our language.
My expectations were not so high , I thought hopefully in a year could reach 10,000 visits and would consider myself very lucky and if reached 20,000 visits. Well, at this time and exceeded 116,000 visits so I am more than happy with the good reception that we have It’s really a very pleasant surprise.
Free Pascal 2.6.4 is a point release from the 2.6.0 fixes branch.
Some highlights are:
See the changelog for the list of reported bugs which have been fixed in this release.
Thomas Kellerer wrote on Firebird General list
If anyone is interested I have a similar comparison here
http://www.sql-workbench.net/dbms_comparison.html
It includes Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server, DB2, Firebird, MySQL and the three popular Java embedded engines
Peter Gulutzan (ex Mysql at Oracle arhitect) decided to compare the current versions of MySQL 5.6 and Firebird SQL 2.5. he only looked at SQL standard features that end users can see, without benchmarking
http://ocelot.ca/blog/blog/2014/03/09/354/
Or another link is on coral cache for people who can’t access the above one
http://ocelot.ca.nyud.net/blog/blog/2014/03/09/354/
but some comments / content can be stalled
It’s a weird score because they (Sun/Oracle) didn’t delivered mysql 6 and compared to it Firebird 3 is a major arhitectural change and rewrite and it doesn’t deserve the penalty box
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.general/198/focus=274