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#ilovefs , #ilovefirebird:I Love Free Software Campaign , I love Firebird

February 14, 2011 mariuz Leave a comment

Today is the day when you can share your love towards Firebird and the Free Software world (libreoffice , qt , debian)
There are lots of ways to declare one’s love… Here are some ideas on how you can go public and proclaim your love to Free Software/Firebird

Send active Free Software supporters a message thanking them for their work
Microblog about how you love Free Software, and tag those messages with #ilovefs/#ilovefirebird.
Hug a developer (ask permission first!)
Buy your favourite developer a drink. Or buy someone else a drink and while savouring it, tell him/her about your favorite Free Software application!

ps whey you search for i love firebird i have this example of trim function 🙂

select trim (‘la’ from ‘lalala I love Firebird’) from rdb$database
— returns ‘ I love Firebird’

Average of Firebird users DB sizes

February 14, 2011 Cantu Leave a comment

In a recent survey for the next Firebird Developers Day in Brazil, one of the questions was about the average size of the participants (and/or their customers) databases. A total of 344 people answered, and the result can be seen below:

In general, your (or your customer’s) database has…


Percent	Count	Answers

20.3%	70/344	up to 500MB
31.1%	107/344	up to 2GB
20.9%	72/344	up to 5GB
17.2%	59/344	up to 10GB
10.5%	36/344	more than 10GB

100.0%	344/344	Summary

PS: Note that this survey was directed only to people who intends to participate in the next Brazilian FDD edition.

OMEGA SYNC: Effortlessly compare and synchronize your local or remote databases.

February 11, 2011 Fikret Hasovic Leave a comment

Omega Sync can compare and synchronize both database schema and table data.

You can even synchronize data of heterogeneous databases (for example, compare your local Firebird database with a MySQL replica on your web site – and synchronize all the differences in just a few minutes).
http://www.spectralcore.com/omegasync/

Flamerobin rebuild for #fedora linux 15 and 16

February 11, 2011 mariuz Leave a comment

Philippe Makowski managed to rebuild the flamerobin 0.9.2 package for fedora 15 also for the 16 version too .
There were some issues with new strict compiler rules in fedora similar with what happened when we tried to compile
flamerobin with clang

Firebird git mirror on github.com

February 10, 2011 mariuz Leave a comment

Adriano created a git mirror for all firebird branches . You can check the progress for each branch and the trunk in the network graph

Video: Capture unauthorized access to data in Firebird 2.5

February 3, 2011 tsteinmaurer Leave a comment

There is another video on the Trace API and FB TraceManager available. This video discusses how to capture unauthorized access to data in Firebird 2.5.

It’s available HERE.

Web.py #Python micro framework it does have support for Firebird

February 3, 2011 mariuz Leave a comment

I took a look in the db.py module and it does indeed have support for firebird .
web.py is a web framework for python that is as simple as it is powerful.

“Django lets you write web apps in Django. TurboGears lets you write web apps in TurboGears. Web.py lets you write web apps in Python”

How to capture NATURAL SCAN statements in Firebird 2.5

January 25, 2011 tsteinmaurer Leave a comment

This is easily done with the new Firebird 2.5 Trace API in combination with Upscene’s FB TraceManager product.

A short demonstration video is available HERE.

Firebird Data Wizard 11.1 released

January 25, 2011 SQL Maestro Team Leave a comment

SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Wizard 11.1, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management.

Firebird Data Wizard provides you with a number of easy-to-use wizards to convert any ADO-compatible database to the Firebird database, import data into
Firebird tables, export data from tables, views and queries to most popular file formats as well as generate data-driven ASP.NET pages for your Firebird database.

New version provides data import from any database accessible via ODBC driver or OLE DB provider, the insert-or-update data import mode, advanced Data Pump abilities, and some other new features.

There are also other useful things as well as versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc). Read full press release.

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