Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
FireAlarm is a server performance and health monitoring tool for the Firebird RDBMS. It is written in the Java programming language and released as open source.
This is a quick guide to the FireAlarm API, which shows how easy it is to register FireAlarm Database Aliases and to add and configure Alarm instances.
Omega Sync can compare and synchronize both database schema and table data.
You can even synchronize data of heterogeneous databases (for example, compare your local Firebird database with a MySQL replica on your web site – and synchronize all the differences in just a few minutes).
http://www.spectralcore.com/omegasync/
Today Firebird 2.5 final packages is uploaded to the Debian testing repository
Soon it will be moved to Debian testing and Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
Firebird 2.1.4 RC landed in debian sid .You can check the shortlog and the message from debian-devel-changes
The Firebird support is being improved now in kevora. Despite there are no schemas in Firebird, we have defined two different artificial schemas (SYSTEM and PUBLIC) to organize the list of database objects. The figure below shows a list of tables and a window with its current session information.
After two years of squashing bugs Debian 6.0 Squeeze is released , in the new version Firebird 2.1.3 is included that is considered quite stable and supported for development if you don’t use the new features from 2.5. Here is the guide for installing it on Debian stable systems from official repository.
There is another video on the Trace API and FB TraceManager available. This video discusses how to capture unauthorized access to data in Firebird 2.5.
It’s available HERE.
DBD::Firebird is registered in perl cpan’s module list and soon we will upload the first tar.gz release (when is considered stable enough)
Until then the module is hosted in github and can be used and tested :
Stefan has improved the Windows support also fixed many tests , here are some of the commit messages:
Improved support for MinGW, added support for ActivePerl, Removed some obsolete tests, All tests, now use testlib.pl and Test::More (except 60leaks.t)
I am trying to develop Firebird connection module for NodeJS (http://nodejs.org/).
https://github.com/xdenser/node-firebird-libfbclient
I want to implement firebird events feature as it suits very well to NodeJS ideology.
And have some questions regarding events.
