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ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 32
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 32 has released. Here are the fix:
4.1.2011.32 Release on 06 Apr 2011
- Fixed memory allocation problem for VARCHAR datatype that may cause access violation
Download here.
Firebird #ODBC Driver 2.0 Released
Alexander Potapchenko is happy to announce that he has released the v.2.0 ODBC/JDBC driver for Firebird. Access the What’s New document, sources and binaries for Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit HERE
ps:don’t confuse it with Java jaybird driver this one is the ODBC driver but in the cvs tree is called ODBCJDBC
German article on the new Audit and Trace API is available
FYI: For the German speaking guys here. The originally published German article on the new audit and trace API in the Entwickler Magazin Edition 2.2010 is now available as download.
Check out my blog:
http://blog.upscene.com/thomas/index.php?entry=entry110404-124701
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With regards,
Thomas Steinmaurer
Servers that don’t want to die Farewell NT4 server: you served us well for 13 years and now is the time to say goodbye
The full goodbye in tears story is on this blog
The server worked admirably as a file server and as a database server (Firebird) until a few months ago when the first Windows 7 machines started to arrive. Win7 had difficulty reading the files on the NT4 server and even more difficulty in creating files. With regret, we installed another computer (originally Win7 but swiftly downgraded to XP) which served as a file host; the NT4 kept on working as the Firebird server.
You’ve heard the story about the servers which stopped working every night? When the support team came to find out what had happened, they found that the janitor had unplugged the electricity cable in order to plug in his vacuum cleaner.
This story may be apocryphal but something similar happened this morning. The noise of the computer annoyed one of the psychologists who was sitting in the same room, so she unplugged the server! Instant death of the databases! We tried resuscitating the server but it kept on showing ‘MBR fault’ – obviously the master boot record of the server had been damaged. I imagine that someone, somewhere will know how to fix this, but we need those databases up and running now.
I’ve got the databases running on a temporary computer, but I will have to transfer them to the XP server. I tried this a few months ago, and whilst I was able to run the databases, I couldn’t connect to them from the Win7 machines. Now I have no option but to try again.
Farewell NT4 server: you served us well for 13 years and now is the time to say goodbye.
New writer for Firebird docs : Introduction
Steve Summers Vice President of the Firebird Foundation will contribute to firebird docs writing , here is his very nice intro
New gbak manual uploaded
Norman Dunbar wrote on Firebird-support :I’ve uploaded the latest gbak manual on account of the firebird-support thread “how to wipe a database“.
Updated gbak manual to mention that -z option will backup your database and overwrite the backup file.
Lazarus 0.9.30 is released – The best freepascal RAD IDE for Firebird
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.30 release. This release is based on fpc 2.4.2.
This release is available for download at the SourceForge download page
Tweet and user of the day
Mario Lopez Filho is using Firebird and CakePhp
PHP 5.3.6 released with changes for Windows users :VC++6 builds disabled
Officially VC++6 builds are dead (There are community builds but unsupported by core php developers)
Here is the announcement
Windows users: please mind that we do no longer provide builds created with Visual Studio C++ 6. It is impossible to maintain a high quality and safe build of PHP for Windows using this unmaintained compiler.
For Apache SAPIs (php5_apache2_2.dll), be sure that you use a Visual Studio C++ 9 version of Apache. We recommend the PHP builds as provided by ApacheLounge. For any other SAPI (CLI, FastCGI via mod_fcgi, FastCGI with IIS or other FastCGI capable server), everything works as before.Third party extension providers must rebuild their extensions to make them compatible and loadable with the Visual Studio C++9 builds that we no longer provide.