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Firebird 1.5 Language Reference Update available

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Firebird 1.5 Language Reference Update available
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For those who don’t regularly visit the Firebird project home page, the Firebird Documentation Subproject is pleased to announce the availability of the Firebird 1.5 Language Reference Update. This reference documents all the changes in and additions to the Firebird SQL language since the fork from InterBase 6.

Translations are under way, as are versions for Firebird 2.0 and 2.1.

A full Firebird Language Reference, obviating the need for the InterBase reference, is in preparation.

Locations:

HTML: http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd15.html
PDF: http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfrefdocs/Firebird-1.5-LangRef-Update.pdf

The Firebird Documentation Index is at:

http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=doc

Paul Vinkenoog
Firebird Documentation Team

IBProvider Release Candidate 3 is available

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  1. Support of the integrated Windows authentification (SSPI) for
    Firebird 2.1.
  2. Support of the system auth using environment variables: ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD.
  3. Feature of enable/disable database triggers for separate connection is available.
  4. Support of long names and BOOLEAN type in Interbase 7.x and Interbase 2007 was added.
  5. Support of arrays was improved. Access to arrays via IBProvider now becomes more robust in comparison with other Firebird database access components.

Read details on the IBProvider site.

Firebird has some funny ways of handling passwords

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Firebird has some funny ways of handling passwords. The maximum length of passwords that is evaluated is 8 characters. Every character after the 8th is silently ignored. That’s especially funny because the ‘default’ password for a Firebird-installation is ‘masterkey’, which has 9 characters. You can, however, successfully log in to freshly installed Firebird-servers providing the password ‘masterke’.
I’m working with Interbase and Firebird for more than four years and just now realized that when a co-worker at our company found it out while learning SQL.
The only program that I know that makes note of that is gsec, which prints a warning when setting the password to something longer than 8 characters.

http://daniel-albuschat.blogspot.com/2008/04/passwords-in-firebird.html

[ED:Daniel is working on webkit based browser named arrora ]

eZ Publish, Joomla will add native support for Firebird in the future

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If you look at Drupal and also Typo3, they already have multi database support.

Joomla! is currently at the beginning of developing a new Database Abstraction Layer . This new layer should also make it possible for developers to build more support for other database platforms.The new Database Abstraction Layer is not expected to be included in the current 1.5 version nor the upcoming 1.6.

If you want to read more about the new Joomla! called Joda, check there development blog.

Open Source Census

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There is a project going on to measure the usage of Open Source software all over the world. People just download an utility who scan their machines, detects and reports the use of any recognized Open Source package (anonimously, of course). Right now, Firebird is not one of the recognized packages. This can be fixed if some “good soul” creates a Firebird “Fingerprint” and submit it to OSSDiscovery.

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