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Firebird related news
DBInfo – new IBSurgeon product
IBSurgeon DBInfo is designed to visualize internal structure’s statistics, so administrators or developers can view how much data, index, blob or other kind of information your Firebird or InterBase database stores.
DBInfo is a free tool, download it now: http://ib-aid.com/products/firebird_interbase/monitoring/dbinfo
More information at IBSurgeon official site.
ANN: django firebird with south support
Maxi Robaina wrote on django-firebird list
I’ve a first attempt for support firebird into django-south.
You can give a try at https://bitbucket.org/maxirobaina/south
Feedback is wellcome.
IBReplicator V4.0.8 has been released.
For more information read the release notes
IBSurgeon Log Viewer 2.0 – free tool for viewing and analyzing firebird.log
IBSurgeon Log Viewer is designed to facilitate viewing and analyzing long Firebird and InterBase logs. Many Firebird and Interbase developers and administrators do not pay enough attention to the contents of firebird.log (interbase.log), though there is a lot of useful information, which can help to find and resolve various issues with Firebird/InterBase databases.
Originally Log Viewer was IBSurgeon’s internal application, which helped to quickly navigate through very long Firebird and InterBase logs, and in version 2.0 it became mature enough to be released for the community.
Download free version from IBSurgeon’s site.
Install it and open server’s log (usually it’s in C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_n_n\ folder). There are also descriptions for log entries shipped with IBSurgeon Log Viewer:
Feel free to contact IBSurgeon Support (support@ib-aid.com) if you see suspicious messages in your logs. Don’t forget to attach log to the message!
Trace API session at the ADUG Sydney meeting – Wednesday January 18th, 2012
The new Firebird 2.5 Trace API will be the topic of the next ADUG (Australian Delphi User Group) Sydney meeting on Wednesday January 18th, 2012 6pm Sydney time.
http://www.adug.org.au/meetings/syd/next_meeting.htm
There will be a live stream via GoToMeeting available. Seats might be limited. Feel free to join.
PHP 5.3.9 released with relevant PDO Firebird changes
PHP 5.3.9 is released
Here are the relevant PDO Firebird changes included
PDO Firebird:
Fixed bug #48877 (“bindValue” and “bindParam” do not work for PDO Firebird).
Fixed bug #47415 (PDO_Firebird segfaults when passing lowercased column name to bindColumn).
Fixed bug #53280 (PDO_Firebird segfaults if query column count less than param count).
Paul Vinkenoog started working on the DML chapter for the 2.5 Language Reference.
ikoniHi all,
I’m going to start working on the DML chapter for the 2.5 Language Reference. Hope we can do some good work in 2012.
Happy New Year every one!
Paul Vinkenoog announced on firebird-docs mailing list
Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2011 at LinuxQuestions
Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2011 at LinuxQuestions (must be registered user with at least one post) We must Crush MySQL, MariaDB, Drizzle
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-95/
Firebird 2.5.2 svn snapshot 53775 landed in Debian unstable
firebird2.5 (2.5.2~svn+53775.ds4-1) package is now in debian unstable
Here is the list of debian changes and fixes
* Snapshot from upstream’s 2.5 branch, revision 53775
* control: note -doc doesn’t contain release notes (LP#908963)
* control: change transitional 2.5-dev package to oldlibs/extra
* control: -common package is arch:all
the last arch-specific bit, ibutil was moved to -server-common
* -classic.init: provide a status option
* control: 2.5-dev, -classic-common: depend on the same (source) version of
-common-doc