Firebird related news
This version fixes Segmentation fault issues
Release files can be found here
To install it using gem
rvm use ruby-1.9.3-p125
gem install rubyfb
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1 gem installed
Here is the download page and you can check the Commit History for interesting changes (new features)and fixes (memory leaks , utf-8 char fields encoding handling).
News via Maximiliano Robaina and here is the patch
To check more about the project you can check it’s homepage
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce V2.5.1 of FB TraceManager, a professional environment to monitor, profile, trace and optimize Firebird databases. |
More information on the new release is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20120313
This release extends the per-database monitoring capabilities with database statistics (data/index pages and record version information) monitoring. Adds support for ODS 11.1 (Firebird 2.1) monitoring tables and several other improvements and fixes. In combination with the Trace API, this is a powerful and integrated toolset to optimize and tune your Firebird server, database and client application even further.
There are also the following new screencasts available:
What’s new in V2.5
What’s new in V2.0
FREE Lite Edition
More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm
Quote of the day is via this thread on Firebird Java Group :
It would be good if Jaybird 2.3 could be used with embedded and
LibreOffice because the feature set in Firebird is obviously much, much greater
than HSQL or the proposed SQLite replacement.
The ability to create a zeroconf, transportable data file is of interest to me
(along with using iReport to generate printouts from that file).
OT: Personally I think that Jaybird / Firebird / Firebird embedded is the way to
go for LibreOffice instead of the very limited SQLite. The ability to upscale
from a single file application to a client/server one is a killer.
Update:Firebird Driver and Embedded version merged into LibreOffice git master
Logikal Solutions is proud to announce “The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases” has been released in EPUB format as part of “The Minimum You Need to Know” book series. Currently it is available at Barnes & Nobel as well as Kobo. It should also be available shortly at the Sony eBook store.
This book shows the nitty-gritty of developing with Qt using PostgreSQL, Firebird, and SQLite databases. It also shows the developer how to create BOTH console and GUI Qt applications. Readers are shown how to do development with Qt Designer, Qt Creator, QDevelop, Monkey Studio, and Eclipse under KUbuntu. Like most of the titles in this series this book attempts to teach by repeatedly developing the same application with each new tool set so developers who understand one or only “some” of a given tool set can quickly come up to speed by looking at the differences each tool forces on the application.
Qt is an amazing application framework currently owned and supported by Nokia. While there are many books available discussing various aspects of the GUI, most give at most a single chapter to database access. This book is designed to cover that topic in depth. The vast majority of applications written today will need to communicate with a database in some fashion, even if it is just to store user entered data locally. Currently there are no books on the market providing any significant quantity of information about how to do it are more importantly just how different your application will be for each database engine.
“The Minimum You Need to Know” is an award winning technical book series written by Roland Hughes and published by Logikal Solutions. Please visit The Minimum You Need to Know for information about other titles in this technical book series.
FBDataGuard was just updated to the version 2.7. Download it from your IBSurgeon Deploy Center account or get trial version from the product page.
Please schedule upgrade of your production system (please do upgrade carefully and plan all your actions).
Changes in version 2.7 include support for modern browsers in FBDataGuard web-console, fixed bugs and improved performance.
FBDataGuard is intended to be automatic maintainer and administrator assistant for important Firebird databases, especially at remote locations and being bundled with Firebird-based software.
FBDataGuard is designed to provide stability and confidence in business-critical Firebird databases:
Also it can be used for advanced database recovery of protected database in case of heavy corruption (e.g., caused by hardware failure).
Jiri Cincura was recently interviewed for InfoQ article – Q&A with Jiri Cincura of the Firebird Database Project. We touched Firebird, ADO.NET, O/RMs, Entity Framework etc. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Update: The article seems to be retracted for the moment , Don’t panic we asked why and investigate the cause (see the comments section) ,
Here is the full text from Google cache
We recently spoke with Jiri Cincura of the Firebird database project.
InfoQ: Can you tell us briefly about yourself and your role in creating the ADO.NET provider for Firebird?
Jiri: Currently I’m project lead for the ADO.NET provider for Firebird project. And actually only one active right now. I’m doing majority of development (although there are some worth contributions) and all the stuff around, like testing, releases, issue tracker watching, replying in mailing list etc.
InfoQ: And for the benefit of our readers who are unfamiliar with it, who would you describe Firebird?
The package is now in ubuntu oneiric ppa
To install it use
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapopa/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flamerobin
or if you have already installed
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
