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Database Workbench 3.3 Pro released

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Ladies, gentlemen,

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular database development tool: Database Workbench Pro 3.3

Changes Highlights in 3.3
– Better Stored Routine Debugger
– Ability to cancel import/export processes
– Monitoring GUI for Firebird 2.1
– Ability to cancel running queries in NexusDB, SQL Anywhere and Firebird 2.1
– Stored Routine debugger for SQL Anywhere
– Many new features, enhancements and bug fixes…

New Feature Highlights in 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0

Benerator – test data generator

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While looking for some nice free test data generator for Firebird, I just stumbled into Benerator:

http://databene.org/databene-benerator/

benerator supports you in performing realistic load and performance tests. It is a framework for generating realistic and valid high-volume test data for your system under test (avoiding the Datalite anti-pattern)

Apparently, it works with Firebird:

http://databene.org/databene-benerator/faq/80-which-systems-does-benerator-support.html

IBProvider Release Candidate 4

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New release candidate of IBProvider Professional Edition has appeared. Is the modern driver for access to 16 versions of the Firebrd and Interbase servers.

Improved support of DDEX (Data Designer Extensibility) when working with Firebird and Interbase

IBProvider RC4 has the new option of stored procedures calling in Visual Studio 2008 style via ODBC escape sequences. This innovation allows to create queries and TableAdapters based on stored procedures.

Optimized working with named parameters in SQL query text

  • Fewer limitations for multiple use of same named parameter in SQL query text
  • New algorithm for choosing named parameter data type.
  • Some errors of named parameters procession detected via profound testing by exhaustive method have been eliminated.

Metadata schemes and column descriptions (IColumnsRowset) support user encoding

Metadata schemes and IColumnRowset interface now consider user charset . This allows working with metadata in set encoding.

What comes next?

ANN: FBScanner Community Edition 2.5.3 – testers wanted

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We are pleased to announce beta version of FBScanner Community Edition 2.5, free tool to monitor and manage connections and transactions.
With FBScanner Community Edition you can easily view instant snapshots of connections and SQL queries in Firebird 1.0-2.5 and InterBase 5.6-2009.
It is useful for administration tasks for Firebird Classic and SuperServer; for step-by-step debugging to view actual state of SQL-queries,
and even to reveal SQL-queries texts in close-sourced applications.

Please download it from here
http://www.ib-aid.com/free/FBScanner25Community.zip
Please be careful: this is not a production version, so do not use it at production systems.

Any feedback is welcome: fbs@ib-aid.com

Firebird2.1 moved from Debian experimental to sid (unstable)

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Today i have installed Debian Lenny in an kqemu/kvm virtual machine (managed by virt-manager under  ubuntu jaunty )

firebird by default there is 2.0.4 so i wanted the latest firebird2.1 stable from debian so i just dist upgraded the lenny to sid

by replacing all lenny words from /etc/apt/sources.list with sid then i did from console

an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade after that i have now access to firebird2.1 just released for sid

then in terminal apt-get install firebird2.1-super and after that  dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-super

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