ADO.NET provider 2.6.0 for Firebird released
Firebird .NET provider team is proud to announce next version of ADO.NET provider for Firebird – 2.6.0.
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Firebird related news
Know how to add execution of SQL-scripts in your programs!
Do you want to enable execution of SQL scripts in your programs and spend less time for exhausting coding?
Do you want to create a table, a generator and a trigger, to add data to the table, to make data selection and then to delete all this in one command? For example:
set autoddl on;
set transaction;
create generator GEN_ID_TEST_TABLE;
create table TEST_TABLE (ID INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,TEXT BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT);
create trigger BI_TEST_TABLE for TEST_TABLE
before insert
as
begin
if(NEW.ID IS NULL) then NEW.ID=GEN_ID(GEN_ID_TEST_TABLE,1);
end;
insert into TEST_TABLE (text) values('record 1');
insert into TEST_TABLE (text) values('record 2');
set term !!;
select * from TEST_TABLE!!
set terminator ;!!
TEST_TABLE;
set autoddl off;
drop table TEST_TABLE;
drop generator GEN_ID_TEST_TABLE;
commit;Now it is possible with new IBProvider! IBProvider v.3.3.0.11117 allows to run a command with several SQL queries (SQL scripts).
Read more right now:
Know how to add execution of SQL-scripts for Firebird and Interbase in your programs!
#Monodroid :Connecting from Android to Firebird with .NET provider for #Mono
From Jiri’s blog
Remember the challenge I did some time ago with .NET provider for Firebird and MonoTouch? Well because I’ve got access to previews of MonoDroid, why not to try the same here?
Some Firebird tricks from a webmaster
Some Firebird Tricks for today
I’m a webmaster amongst other things for a significant web hosting provider.
I wanted to share some code and tricks I come across to pretend I’m knowledgeable, remember to not forget what I’ve learned and because I’m a little jealous of my colleague’s awesome blog.
Top 10 Firebird wishlist
Some people doesn’t know, but anyone registered in the Firebird Tracker (registration is open, quick and free) can ask for improvements, report bugs, or vote in some existing tickets to raise their “priority”.
It is true that a high ranked ticket may never be implemented/solved. It is also true that the FB developers are free to implement what they want, without following any specific order or wishes. In fact, a ticket can be left untouched for a long time, if none of the developers feel inclined to work on that issue. But it is also true that having the users community voting for items, may sign to the Core Team developers with a direction to follow.
Here is a list of the top 10 ranked tickets at the moment:
Note that the top 10 issues are not bugs (the FB Core Team is a very efficient bug killer 😉 ), but enhancements/improvements to Firebird.
It seems that 775 and 657 are expected to be solved in Firebird 3. Core 773 and 2530 are related to the Firebird wire protocol.
Sadly, the top voted item (2530) is still unassigned. If you ever tried to use Firebird over the Internet and felt it is too slow, this is the issue you need to vote 😉 This improvement requires a new wire protocol, and changes to the API that would break the currently third-party access components. So, not easy task, but I hope to see it implemented in the future.
Firebird project is worth more than Half a Billion $
According to ohloh widget calculator the project is worth $ 671,246,615
“This calculator estimates how much it would cost to hire a team to write this project from scratch.”
You can help promoting firebird by using the widget to your site and clicking “I Use this” button
New #FlameRobin 0.9.3 snapshots for Windows
Michael Hieke wrote on flamerobin-devel list :
I have posted SVN revision 2048 (nice round number) snapshot files for
Windows 32 and 64 bits, both setup and ZIP files.
Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions.
Firebird downloads will hit 1 Million Downloads for this year
From the download statistics we can observe that Firebird will hit 1 Million downloads for this year pretty soon (a few days)
Be Free Romanian version : In Autumn we count the buds: Firebird 2.5
It’s hard to translate the sentence but the main idea is in Autumn you get all the rewards for a full year work (if you work in agriculture)
The article is in Romanian and is on one of the best portals for Free Software (Translated Be Free)
You can try reading using the google translate.
Delta Quadrant: Horizons
From Sergey Mereutsa (posted to fb-devel):
Dear friends!
While it is an offtopic here, but it may be interesting for all, who is in any form involved in Firebird development.
Several years ago, we announced a web-based game, written in Firebird SQL. It was DQ:Empires and a lot of peoples around the world played this game.
Now, I`m pleased to announce next game, in the same game universe, but slightly other – Delta Quadrant: Horizons, a web-based space 4X strategy.
I will not write much details here about the game (someone compared it with online version of Masters of Orion game, but it is not MOO2 clone) – you can read more on game`s site, http://www.dqhorizons.com/ .
Some technical details:
