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Firebird Data Wizard 9.12 released

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Firebird Data Wizard SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Wizard 8.4, 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 features:

  • Data Import: now you can import data from XML, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office Access 2007 file formats along with Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003, Microsoft Office Access, CSV, DBF, and Text files supported in the previous versions.
  • Data Export: support for Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office Word 2007, OpenDocument Spreadsheed, and OpenDocument Text file formats has been implemented. Also now it is possible to select the result file encoding.
  • Data Pump: the conversion rules for fields and indexes become more intelligent, so starting with this version most of source databases from well-known DBMS can be transferred even with default settings. Also the speed of data transfer has been significantly increased.

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

Broadview Software Upgrades to Platinum

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From Firebird Foundation blog:

Broadview Software, of Toronto, Canada, upgrades its sponsorship from Gold to Platinum. Thanks to Sean Leyne and the Broadview management, which also provides hosting for all of the Firebird Project’s Internet web, Tracker, database, mail and list services.

#phpBB 3.0.6 released with small firebird changes

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We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB “Fast and Furrious” 3.0.6 package. This release fixes numerous bugs, introduces some major features, as well as improves stability and performance.

Firebird related changes:

Changed minimum requirement for Firebird DBMS from 2.0+ to 2.1+.

ps: i like the new ACM (Cache) plugins for APC , XCache

The cache system provides an API for caching frequently used data, it provides an interface for user code to cache data and an interface for the DBAL to cache query results.

Firebird(Client) with Silverlight

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I tried build FirebirdClient in Silverlight environment and I failed. I expected to fail after some attempts with modifications and using only subset of features like i.e for Compact Framework, but this was really fast. Silverlight is only subset of .NET Framework. And one crucial part is not there, it’s System.Data stuff and without it you can drop major part of any ADO.NET provider’s code.

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