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IBSurgeon FBDataGuard 2.8: Update of monitoring and database protection tool

August 26, 2013 IBSurgeon News Leave a comment

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.

Donations collected in the 10th FDD

August 5, 2013 Cantu Leave a comment

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!

GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 07 and driver Dialect is now 3 by default

July 29, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

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/

Node-Firebird group is created for discussions about asynchronous Firebird client for Node.js.

July 20, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

To get help about the Node-Firebird client a new group is created

Firebird .Net Provider is moving to Git/Github

July 17, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

Jiri Cincura wrote about his issues with SourceForge and SVN also his idea to move
to a better system : git/github:

Maybe you remember the thread “Releasing more often???“. Yeah and
nothing happened. 🙂 Because there was not a strong protest, I think
it’s something we all ‘d like to have.

I was lately really pissed of by SF’s SVN. If you worked with it, not
just committing, I think just using it, you can feel my pain. So first
part of the improving I’d like to offer moving to Git on GitHub. I’m
not a fan of GitHub (I like BitBucket, if somebody asks), but it’s a
de-facto standard in OSS.

With this we will also gain benefits like downloading the sources
packed, downloadig specific version etc.

Also I’d like to release *only* on NuGet and latest version for latest
framework as MSI (on website). The rest can be downloaded/extracted
from NuGet. We now support just .NET 3.5 SP1 and later, thus at least
VS2010 and so NuGet is available to everybody. And even that, you can
grab NuGet.exe and download from command line, if you want (i.e.
you’re hard-core developer using Notepad and csc only :)). Both these
with higher cadence, shorter release loop as mentioned in previous
thread.

Maybe I’m too optimistic, so please let me know what you think and
what you think is going not work. 😉

Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.2 is releasead

July 9, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

Files are uploaded to Sourceforge files area

Update the information is on the driver page http://firebirdsql.org/en/odbc-driver

The Firebird Book Second Edition now on Amazon

June 20, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

You can now buy all 3 volumes from printed second edition from Amazon (If you are in Eu choose Amazon.uk/de)
http://www.firebird-books.net/

Protocol optimization (status update)

June 10, 2013 Cantu Leave a comment

I got the following status update from Dmitry Yemanov, regarding the Firebird’s protocol enhancement task that is being sponsored by FDD:

I’m working on it from time to time. One of the TODO items is completed,
one more improvement came to mind and now it’s being tested. So it’s
surely will be available in FB3, at some point after Alpha 1 but before
Beta 1.

I think this is good news!

CopyCat replication engine v. 3.04.0

April 24, 2013 jonneve Leave a comment

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Microtec Communications is pleased to announce a new release of CopyCat,
version 3.04.0! You will find the full list of changes at the end of
this email. This release also includes the changes from version 3.03.0,
which had not been made publicly available till now.

CopyCat is a Delphi / C++Builder component set encapsulating a database
replication engine for Interbase, Firebird, MS SQL Server, MySQL and
SQLite. Using CopyCat, you can replicate heterogenously between all the
above database types, over various transport systems (direct DB
connection, XMLRPC, or RTC), on various platforms : Delphi/MS Windows
for the client side, server side implemented in Delphi, in Java, in PHP
(only for MySQL) and in Objective-C on iOS (only for SQLite).

CopyCat is a robust replication engine that has been in production use
since 2004. Go to our site at http://www.copycat.fr to find out more!

Below is the list of changes in the new release.

Best regards,
Jonathan Neve
Microtec Communications – http://www.microtec.fr
CopyCat / CopyTiger replication engine – http://www.copycat.fr

[See remaining text…]

CopyCat v3.04.0 (4th of April 2013)

TCcReplicator

Fixed a bug whereby empty string values were sometimes changed

into nulls.

FIBPlus connector : improved recovery after connection loss :
sometimes connection would not resume correctly after network error was
fixed.
CopyCat now checks the number of rows affected by either the
update or insert into the destination database and raises an error if
ever neither the update nor the insert was successful.

CopyCat V3.03.0 (1st of August 2012)

Added support for SQLite / iOS

New database adaptor for SQLite
XMLRPC server and CopyCat transport server for iOS (written in
objective-C, compatible with Delphi CopyCat XMLRPC transports.

Added support for Delphi / C++ Builder XE3

Transport layer

Added AutoCommit property on client transport. Setting
autocommit optimizes communication by not explicitly starting nor ending
transactions. This implies that the server side must automatically
commit after executying every query.
Added property EncodeStringsAsBase64 to TCcRtcClientTransport
and TCcRtcServerTransport.

TCcReplicator

Added parameters TableName and Fields to OnRowReplicated
event, allowing to access the table name of the row just replicated, as
well as the values of the fields transfered.
Added parameters ReplicateRow and AbortAndTryLater to the
OnRowReplicating event. If ReplicateRow is set to false, the row is not
replicated and the row is discarded from RPL$LOG. If AbortAndTryLater is
set to true, replication of the row is aborted, and will be tried again
next replication cycle (ie, the row is left in RPL$LOG).
Renamed OnAbort event OnReplicationAborted. It it called only
when replication is explicitly aborted via the AbortReplication method
or by setting CanContinue to false in the OnReplicationError event.
Added property TrimCharFields. If set to True, TCcReplicator
will trim all char, varchar or memo fields that are read from the source
database before replicating them to the destination database.

TCcConfig

Added multi-configuration abilities. This means that multiple
replication configurations can be created for the same database,
allowing separate lists of tables, replication conditions, and
replication nodes to be configured independantly from each other.
You can now define replication configuration at design time,
using the new Tables property. Double-clicking on this property allows
you to define the list of tables to replicate for the current
configuration (defined by the ConfigName property), along with the
conditions for each, as well as the list of nodes to replicate towards
(corresponding to the RPL$USERS table). You can then roll out this
configuration at run time by calling the GenerateConfig property. This
will create triggers for all the tables defined in your configuration,
or recreate them if any of the configuration options has changed. If you
want to define several replication configurations, then you need one
TCcConfig instance for each configuration.
New IncludedFields property in the Tables list allows you to
specify the list of fields to include in the replication triggers. This
means that the change will only be logged for replication (in RPL$LOG)
if at least one of the included fields has changed. Thus empty updates
or updates of fields that are of no interest to the replication config
can be excluded, thereby lightening the replication load. If no
IncludedFields are set, the default is to include all fields, as before.
New IncludedFields property in the Tables list allows you to
set a list of fields to exclude from the replication triggers. This is
just a shortcut for adding all but the fields specified to the
IncludedFields list.
New procedure RPL$FORCE_REPL allows to force replication of a
certain set of rows, within the context of a certain config. This can be
useful when the IncludedFields property is used.
Added multiple data types in order to handle all the new
TDataType values. This fixes a bug that occured with some Firebird
dialect 3 datatypes, when replicating over XMLRPC or RTC transports.

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