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Two Firebird days in Germany – Erlanger Firebird Tag

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Hello,

For German language please have a look at our DBA Blog:
http://www.blogs.uni-erlangen.de/db/stories/2717/

to  shorten the time to the next firebird conference there will be a
small     firebird     day     in    Germany,  Erlangen  at the RRZE
(www.rrze.de)   (local     computing    center   of  the  university
Erlangen-Nürnberg) from 8th to 9th May 2009.

We’ll start at Friday morning and end at Saturday evening.
There might be a pre day presentation for sponsors on 7 May.

The main track will be in German but it’s also possible to have some
English  talks as  the  once  of  Dimitry and Vlad for example and
international after track meetings.

-= Today I’m looking for sponsors and speakers =-

IBProvider for Firebird and Interbase has been released.

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Changes in IBProvider v2 (build 2.6.06.2688)

  • Addition of UTF-8 charset support
  • Loading of charset information for COLUMN and PROCEDURE_PARAMETERS metadata schemes from system tables.

Changes in IBProvider v3 (build 3.0.0.6327 RC3)

New IBProvider v3 offers the brand new method for working with text data charsets:

  • We added ctype_user property that allows setting the encoding of data coming to client irrespective of the encoding in which this data is coming from database server.
  • New algorithms of BLOB fields converting provide for quick work with flowing data, optimization of interaction with ICU library.
  • We added ctype_none property that allows setting the charset for working with text data in NONE encoding.
  • Other important changes.
  • Support of Firebird and Interbase charsets aliases.

See detailed information on working with new character set processor in Firebird and Interbase character sets.

Text columns size in Firebird 2.X

IBProvider started to control text columns size when working with Firebird 2 servers in Unicode mode. If the length of loaded data exceeds the text column size the exclusion will be generated.

Solaris port of Firebird 2.5 on x86 finished

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Alex Peshkov wrote on firebird-devel list

Happy to notify you that I’ve finished with solaris port of 2.5 on x86. I.e.
currently out code base works not only with windows and posix threading, but
also with native solaris. Both dev and release builds pass tcs OK except few
minor issues with double precision arithmetics, when digits like
12.3456789123456 differ in the last column. I suppose this is related with
VirtualBox VM problems (in all other aspects it runs Solaris wonderful).

Hewlett-Packard Violating our Trademark Rights

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Hewlett-Packard has been reported as about to announce a new gaming appliance named “Firebird”. Any computer-related product is in Class 9, the same class in which “Firebird” is a protected mark registered to the Foundation. Someone at HP didn’t do his homework! Hewlett-Packard (Australia) Pty Ltd has been sent a letter by registered mail informing them of the violation and the need to ensure that the parent company knows it cannot use our trademark.

Source: Firebird Foundation blog

The Firebird wine

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Firebird Wine

Looks like “Firebirdians” already have an official wine 😉 Firebird Legend, from Moldova, proved to be a really good wine, at last for the taste of some Firebird users (including myself).

Afterall, with this name, it could not be different! 🙂

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