Firebird related news
Here is the source for Firebird package.
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Upscene Productions has made a new FB TraceManager V3 screencast available! This screencast discusses the new Hotspot Analysis feature in detail. |
An in-memory and on-the-fly aggregation on executed statements allows you to identify TOP contributors and common problem patterns. Check it out here: http://www.iblogmanager.com/download/demos/fbtm/fbtm_30_hotspots_analysis.htm
More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, additional screencasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm
Just released a Jaybird 2.2.4-SNAPSHOT version with a fix for Netbeans Hibernate driver loading bug: JDBC-325 download at sourceforge
New Jaybird 2.2.4 snapshot now also available on the sonatype public repository.
News via Mark Rotteveel’s tweet
Reminder from Alexey Kovyazin
As you probably know, November 22, 2013 in in Siegburg (Germany) there
will be Firebird seminar, devoted to all aspects of transactions, from
the basic idea to the internal implementation, about the best practices
and guidance how to effectively use transactions in the applications,
and, of course, performance analysis of transactions and related areas.
More details:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-tour-2013/
Please feel free to ask any questions.
New GSOC update for the previous week with
current status of the firebird-sdbc driver :
Progress this week:
– Made libatomic-ops buildable meaning that we should now be able to build embedded firebird on non-X86 systems too
– Added rebuilding of indices to deal with the icu collation issues.
– Implemented a simple .odb loading test (in gerrit atm.) that also
tests that the embedded firebird .fdb can be connected to.
– Implemented Index retrieval and dropping
– More fixes to do with the firebird temporary and lock directories
– Some coverity fixes
– Started working on foreign key retrieval
Code commits can be reviewed in the LibreOffice git repository
FBDataGuard, a server-side tool to monitor Firebird databases and prevent corruptions, was just updated to the version 2.8. This version contains stability improvements and minor bug fixes, improved support of SSL and support of SMTP-servers.
For ISVs (i.e., companies which produce Firebird-based software and need to protect a lot of installations) IBSurgeon now offers unlimited 1 year subscription for FBDataGuard for fixed price (EUR 990/USD1390). Regular price for
“Unlimited” means that there is no restrictions on how many FBDataGuard instances will be installed, and also it means that installed instances will work permanently. “1 year subscription” means that subscriber can install, reinstall and upgrade FBDataGuard installations during subscription period.
Please download new FBDataGuard from Deploy Center (deploy.ib-aid.com or www.ib-aid.com:8180) and install. Also, FBDataGuard User Guide is available now in Portuguese.
For more information about FBDataGuard, trial downloads and purchase visit www.ib-aid.com.
The version 3.1.1.0 of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is ready for your download!
The 10th Brazilian Firebird Developers Day donations is now published. The money was donated by the attendees and sent to the Firebird Foundation. The total amount collected was R$ 4.101,24. Thanks for all who donated! Go Firebird!
New GSOC update for the previous week : Plenty of mountains conquered this week, also some useful work done …
Also default dialect is now 3 for the Firebird SDBC driver
http://www.ahunt.org/2013/07/firebirds-dialects/
To get help about the Node-Firebird client a new group is created
