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Firebird related news
Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL Release 0.1.5 is out
New version 0.1.5 is released in the unstable area and here is the ChangeLog:
- Add basic Firebird version detection to ensure that only functions available on the remote Firebird server are actually pushed down
- Push down functions COALESCE(), NULLIF()
- Only push down SUBSTRING() if 2nd and 3rd arguments are INTs
Also fbsql is progressing (a command-line client for Firebird inspired by PostgreSQL’s psql)
Database .NET 10.3 released
Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.
You can Browse objects, Design tables, Edit rows, Export data and Run queries with a consistent interface.
- Full support for Firebird database
- Updated to FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll 4.1.0
- Support for Firebird 1.5.x
- Support for Firebird Trace
- Fixed date/time/timestamp dbtypes in Table Designer for Firebird
- New Connection Manager
- New Object Navigator
- Added Script All Table Data (INSERTs)
- Improved AutoComplete and IntelliSense
- Improved Query Builder
- Improved Search Objects
- Improved Database Diagram
- Improved Object Browser
- …and more.
What’s New (2014/01/20)
You’re welcome to download the Database .NET right now at:
http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm
All-In-One, Free, Simple and Standalone (No Installation).
Supported Platforms: Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/2012/8.1 (x86/x64)
FBScanner 3.6.1 is released
New version of FBScanner (3.6.1) is released. FBScanner is an unique tool to trace and audit Firebird (1.0 – 2.5) and InterBase (4.0 – XE3) SQL traffic (connections, transactions, queries), it’s very efficient tool for performance optimization and SQL bug tracking.
FBScanner works like a proxy, and enables transparent data capture and analysis:
FBScanner can be used for the following tasks:
- Find queries with bad performance (i.e., slow queries with high prepare and execute times, queries with bad plans)
- Track transactions usage
- Real-time view of connections, users and transactions (connections can be killed)
- Retrospective analysis of SQL traffic
- and more – see presentation here.
FBScanner has 2 licensing options:
- Per server – FBScanner can be used on the single server or computer to track Firebird traffic.
- Unlimited ISV subscription – FBScanner can be installed on any number of computers during the 1 year for use with the specific software application from the single independent software vendor (ISV).
All users of FBScanner 3 already have FBScanner 3.6.1 in IBSurgeon Deploy Center.
User of FBScanner 2.x can upgrade to FBScanner 3.6.1 with 50% discount – please contact upgrade@ib-aid.com
Download now:
Demo version of FBScanner can be found here:
FBScanner Demo version
Please look at the FBScanner User Guide to get more information about its capabilities:
FBScanner User Guide
DWScript now has database support dwsDatabase
DWScript now has database support classes built-in, these are based on a thin, interface-based layer, and can be used Delphi-side as well to get automatic memory management for simple DB access.
Here is a simple example for webservice
Generate PDF output from Firebird SQL data
Here is a demo program that shows how to generate PDF output from a Firebird database, using xtopdf PDF creation toolkit and the fbd Python driver for Firebird.
Spanish blog about Firebird
There is a blog about firebird at http://firebird21.wordpress.com/
His author posts almost every single day since March 2013
News via Linkedin Firebird community
IBX for Lazarus 1.0.5 Released
IBX for Lazarus 1.0.5 is now available for download from http://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx
This is a very minor update from 1.0.4 to ensure compatibility with fpc 2.6.4. The specific issue is the proposed change to the TBookmark type definition in the DB unit. This was originally expected to be introduced in 2.6.4 and conditional compilation was set accordingly. As this type change has now been postponed, the conditional compilation flags have been updated such that the updated type definition is not expected until compiler version 2.7.x onwards.
News via Lazarus forums
TurboBird 1.0 stable version is released
Android port of the Firebird Jdbc driver (Jaybird) 2.2.4 is released
New version for Android Jaybird is released This is a port of the Firebird Jdbc driver (Jaybird)
You can check what is new in Jaybird 2.2.4 from the official announcement page
ps: You can download latest version from Files area also the Netbeans example