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Firebird related news
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
Printed version of the Migration Guide to FB 3 is available
The printed version of the Migration Guide to Firebird 3 was previously available trough CreateSpace site. Since the recent merge of CreateSpace and Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, the printed book had became unavailable.
I’m glad to announce that the printed version of the Guide (in English) is now available in several Amazon sites around the world. If you prefer to have a physical copy instead of the eBook, you can buy it visiting the Guide’s page.
Os brasileiros podem adquirir a versão impressa (em português) diretamente no site da FireBase.
FirebirdDbComparer with Firebird 3 packages support
The new version of FirebirdDbComparer is published and this version contains among small bug fixes and performance optimizations also one big new feature and that’s support for packages in Firebird 3.
Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript updated to v0.1.1
Help our community to make LibreOffice 6.2
Help our community to make LibreOffice 6.2 – which is due in early February – the best release ever! Join our upcoming Bug Hunting Session to identify and help to fix issues:
A Christmas gift is coming?
Ho Ho Ho… One of the Santa’s reindeers told us that we may find a nice Christmas gift in the following days. Firebird 4 Beta 1 should arrive with the replication engine ready for testing! Stay tuned for more news…