RAD Studio 2010 Review : Database Jewels
Perhaps after such a long wait, you will expect to say many things about the Firebird support in Delphi 2010. But I’ll say… just two words: just works.
Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
Video showing Delphi 2010 support for Firebird
A video was posted in EDN, showing the new Delphi 2010 support for Firebird, using the “official” dbExpress driver. Watch it here.
Dibi – tiny’n’smart Database Abstraction Library for PHP 5.
TPDA (Tiny Perl Database Application) 0.6 released
TPDA (Tiny Perl Database Application) is a classic desktop database application framework with support for Firebird, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. The goal of this project is to make database applications more flexible and accessible for every user.
Embarcadaro Rolls Out RAD Studio 2010
In the list of important changes :
Firebird support. Delphi now has native support for what Embaracaro
claims is the most deployed open source database in the world.
http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/219300166
Embarcadero Change Manager
Gordon Lucas, from Embarcadero, just dropped me a note about Embarcadero Change Manager product support for Firebird, saying that work is well undersway, and a sneak peak preview video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCFSPfKOlY
More info here.
WebIssues Client 0.9.5 released
Version 0.9.5 of the WebIssues Client is available for download. Firebird support is added in Server version 0.8.4 if you read it in Changelog
Noteworthy Mandriva Cooker changes (27 July – 9 August 2009)
here were a lots of package updates in Mandriva Cooker during the last two weeks.Currently a complete rebuild of all packages in the Main repository is going on. Here’s a list of some more interesting changes
The Firebird database pacakges have seen many improvements and should start working well soon.
Opendbx 1.4.2 released
This is another small bugfix release for the current stable series. Firebird warning Fixed in this version of Opendbx.
Database Workbench 3.4 Lite released
Upscene Productions releases a new version of
“ Database Workbench Lite ”
There are editions available for MySQL, Firebird and InterBase.
What is Database Workbench?
Database Workbench Pro is a cross database development environment
for database administrators and developers. It supports tools
for cross database development like Schema Migration and Compare
tools, DataPump, single IDE for multiple DBMSses and much more.
Database Workbench Lite is the somewhat limited but free version
of Database Workbench, available for MySQL, Firebird and InterBase.
This free version can be downloaded from http://www.upscene.com/downloads.php
Database Workbench Pro supports:
- Borland InterBase ( 4.x – 8.x )
- Firebird ( 1.x, 2.x )
- MS SQL Server/MSDE ( v6.5, 7, 2000, 2005, 2008, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express )
- MySQL 4.x, 5.x
- Oracle Database ( 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g )
- Sybase SQL Anywhere ( 9, 10 and 11 )
- NexusDB ( 2.08.x 3.0.x )