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The Evolution Payroll service-bureau system from iSystems, LLC employs a three-tiered architecture, with the backend being one or more Linux servers running the Firebird SQL database. Evolution is able to split the load across multiple DB servers on a per-client basis. As Service Bureaus grow, it’s common to add new DB servers to the system, and this Evo Tip covers the steps required to take a fresh Fedora Core system and prepare it for Evolution.

The Firebird Project hires 35 developers to speed up development!

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Features like automaticaly speech to text translation, SMP support up to 1,500 CPUs, built-in OCR UDF’s, embedded browser, integrated email server, IPv12 support, GPS-ready, and all new MSDOS 6 support are among the new things to be released in FB 2.666.

A Release Candidate version is expected in 1 week.

The Core developers team also have grown a lot with the hire of 35 new developers to work full time for Firebird.The Firebird Project is having some problems coordinating such a large team, but they are sure that when the beer finish everything will be up and running.

“We are so excited about this great news, that we are thinking about changing the name to “The Project”, just after the acquisition of Oracle (target to the last quarter of 2008).”

Congratulations, Firebird Team !

FlameRobin 0.8.6 is out

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Hi all,

This is mostly a bug-fix release, probably a first ‘stable’ 0.8
version without major bugs. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X binaries and
source code package are available for download. I recommend all Linux
distribution packagers to upgrade (especially if you still use 0.8.3
or lower). Here’s the changelog since 0.8.3:

New features
– DataGrid: BLOB data is now (optionally) shown in cells. Read-only for now.
– DataGrid: A basic ORDER BY clause building when column header is
double-clicked
– Support for LIST function in Firebird 2.1
– Support for MON tables in Firebird 2.1 (Read-only for now.)

Enhancements and Bug fixes
– DataGrid: FR no longer crashes when transaction has ended
(commit/rollback) and grid edit control is active
– DataGrid: Complete string is now shown for editing and copying multiline text
– DataGrid: Copy command now copies a single cell if nothing is selected
– DataGrid: Fixed mixup between BLOB ID and data it contains
– DataGrid: Fixed bug when editing or deleting in grid causes exceptions.
– DataGrid: Successfully deleted rows are deselected, so user can
easily see what is done.
– DDL extraction for GRANTs now only quotes names when needed
– DDL extraction for defaults does not use double quotes anymore.
– Database property page now shows minor ODS version when it is not zero
– Hovering over icons in privileges window, now really shows the grantor
– Improved parsing of SELECT statements
– Support for INSERT..RETURNING and EXECUTE STATEMENT that return a
single record
– Fixed messagebox flood when Execute Procedure called and it doesn’t
return anything
– Print preview and SaveToHtmlFile works again for manual and changelog
– Extracting invalid DDL (missing domain data in system tables) does
not crash FR anymore
– Silent installation (on Windows) does not show changelog window anymore
– Autogenerated domains (system domains) do not show up in the tree anymore
– Added ALTER DOMAIN action for domains
– Tree now shows NOT NULL for columns that inherit NOT NULL from domain
– Fixed parsing bug when non-reserved keyword is used as identifier
– Fixed autocomplete for selectable procedure alias when procedure
call contains parameters (in PSQL)

Enjoy.

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