Pure Elixir database driver for Firebird
Hajime Nakagami created a new driver for Elixir Programming language
Category: General news
Firebird related news
LibreOffice 6.2 is here
LibreOffice 6.2 is here! It includes a new (optional) user interface called the NotebookBar, along with improved compatibility, performance boosts, a reworked help system and many other updates. Learn more and download it .
Firebird related release notes:
- Support for Base files using embedded Firebird RDBMS becomes non experimental in this release.
- Firebird Migration Assistant now creates a backup copy of the existing content.xml file inside the HSQL based ODB file prior to the actual migration process.
- Access2Basic basic library, bundled with the 6.2 release, adds full support for Firebird RDBMS.
IBReplicator V5.0.6 has been released.
IBReplicator V5.0.6 has been released. More information in the release notes.
Firebird Docker image updated to 3.0.4
You can use the Firebird 3.0.4 docker image based on Debian Jessie
https://hub.docker.com/r/jacobalberty/firebird/
Thanks to Serghei Cebotari for this update
FbNetExternalEngine version 1.0 released
FbNetExternalEngine is plugin for Firebird 3+ that allows you to write stored procedures, functions (not yet) and triggers (not yet) in any .NET language. There’s no limitation on what you can or cannot do in the code. Full power of .NET and .NET eco-system is available for you.
More info here.
Alex Peshkoff added 3 new builtin functions : base64_encode/decode and crc32 in Firebird master branch
Lazarus Release Candidate 3 for 2.0
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the third release candidate of Lazarus 2.0.
IBX 2.3.2 is now available for download with Lazarus 2.0 support
MWA Software is pleased to announce that release 2.3.2 of IBX for Lazarus is now available for download from https://mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx. Older versions of IBX will fail to compile with Lazarus 2.0 and upgrade to this version is necessary for use with Lazarus 2.0. All users are recommended to upgrade to the new release. Please read the changelog before upgrading. The release also includes a new SQL Tokeniser and the ability to select the Firebird Library (DLL or shared object) as a property of TIBDatabase or TIBXServicesConnection. Several minor bug fixes are also included.
23 More Ways To Speed Up Firebird
The new article with the collection of tips and tricks to improve Firebird database performance: 23 More Ways To Speed Up Firebird. The article is based on the appropriate presentation from “Firebird Performance Tour” seminar.
Why “23 more”?
Some of you can remember the article 45 Ways To Speed Up Firebird, which was published in May 2016. Now it is time for some more tips and tricks, mostly based on the experience of optimization and maintenance of the Firebird databases and servers with the high number of connections (1000+).
dbMigration .NET v10 released
dbMigration .NET v10 is a simple, easy and intuitive multiple database migration and data synchronization tool, With it you can easily migrate schema and data to Firebird and vice versa.
(Full support for Firebird 1.5~4.0+)
- Major New features from version 9.1 to 10.0:
- Added Auto-generating COMMENTS of tables and columns
- Added Auto-generating DEFAULT values of columns
- Added Auto-generating CHECK constraints of tables
- Added SSH: Secure Shell support
- Added CharSet and PageSize options for creating databases (FB)
- Improved Firebird connection manager (FB)
- Improved Graphical User Interface
- Improved Automatic Mapping Types
- Improved Command-Line
- …and more
