Category: General news
Firebird related news
How to capture NATURAL SCAN statements in Firebird 2.5
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
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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.
New firebird 3.0 , flamerobin snapshots uploaded to #Debian
New snapshot of firebird 3.0 is uploaded in debian experimental for testing .
Also there is a new upload for flamerobin in the experimental area
crypt-o software powered by firebird
While on firebird-architect there was a serious discussion about encryption i found on the web the following software that uses firebird
Crypt-o will help you to organize and store securely any kind of valuable information, such as logins, passwords, customers or employees lists, access codes, credit card numbers, PIN codes, files, etc.
Crypt-o is a secure Client/Server solution for creating custom databases, which is designed for use in enterprise networks. The data is reliably stored in Firebird SQL Server database and is encrypted using AES encryption algorithm with 256-bit key. Crypt-o client applications access the Crypt-o Server using secure SSL connection.
Pictures from Firebird course
Kelver Merlotti posted (a few moths already) about the Firebird course and took pictures of one happy event:
Good morning! Saturday was a party in the course of # Firebird, to celebrate my birthday
Really nice guys! Following pictures:
Relax, firebirdsql.org main website is back online
Now you can access the main website , we hope that is faster now 🙂
4 key distinctions of the new IBProvider v3.4 that make your applications faster
4 key distinctions of the new IBProvider v3.4 that make your applications faster:
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Please read details here: Firebird driver become faster
Firebirdsql website down – do not panic
Please do not panic , the line upgrade went wrong so it will be soon fixed
Message from Helen :
>I will put SQL script into rabbit hole tomorrow (provided WEB server
>will be alife). Currently non of new/old IPs do not ping.Message from Sean indicates things went wrong with the migration to the new subnet of the hosting provider. The current situation is that the Tracker is up, while the webserver is not serving pages. Can’t give more info at present as Sean is not at his desk today.
Firebird Web/Tracker may be unavailable on Wednesday January 12
Leyne, Sean announced on firebird-support list:
The company hosting the Firebird servers is migrating to a higher speed net
connection, which will require a change to the IP addresses. This means that
the addresses of the Firebird servers will also be changing.
