Firebird related news
fb_mhash is a UDF library for Firebird/Interbase. It implements an interface to the mhash library (libmhash). It support hash, hmac, and key generation algorithms, such as SHA1, MD5, MCRYPT, and S2K_SALTED. It support BLOB data.
Release focus: Minor bugfixes
Changes:
The dependency on the Firebird library was removed.
What would you think is harder to do? Run a .NET Client/Server application through mono on Linux or install Ubuntu on Microsoft’s Virtual PC?
Here is the long answer
On Firebird-tools Pierre Yager asked about Firebird Ruby ActiveRecord Adapter
Does any one knows any project on maintaining an ActiveRecord-Firebird-Adapter?
Mario H. Cornejo wrote in his blog about creating domains in Firebird 2.1
The Firebird 2.1.1 packages are now in ppa for Ubuntu Dapper, Gutsy , Feisty , Hardy and Intrepid Ibex
The guide for installing is located in the ubuntu wiki
Also there is an released version in debian experimental
It’s an recomended update if you are still using firebird 2.1.0
The Free Pascal team is pleased to announce that version 2.2.2 is
released and available for download for all major platforms
A list of major changes is available Here.
Read more in Alex Fletcher blog. The post is a special comment for his previous article “Thoughts on the open source database market“.
Firebird 2.1 added the long-awaited monitoring tables. By querying special system tables starting with MON$, you get a snapshot of the current activities in your database like who is connected to your database, which transactions and statements are running and so on. You even can cancel a running query by executing a DELETE statement on MON$STATEMENTS. Firebird 2.5 will also allow you to cancel an entire attachment via a DELETE on MON$ATTACHMENTS.
Hello, Dear Firebird Team Members!
After almost two years in development, four betas and four release
candidates, Red Database 2.1 is finally released.
Information about the release is present here:
http://www.red-soft.biz/en/index.html
Continuing with the series of reports about Firebird Developers Day, our Russian friends just arrived to Piracicaba. In the picture, from left to right, is Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon), me and Dmitry Yemanov (his girlfriend on the side). After 17h flight, they were ready to take the second breakfast of the day 😉 Michael Philippenko (FastReports) was there too, but doesn’t appear in the picture.
Tomorrow, both Dmitries will do special Master Class Firebird sessions to selected people.
