Category: Tools & Products releases

Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.

FlameRobin 0.9.2 is released

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Source, Windows (setup and zip), Linux (Slackware/gtk2) and MacOS X
binary packages are available for download. Win64 port and packages
for various Linux distributions (and maybe FreeBSD) should follow
shortly. This is mostly a bug fix release.

New features:

– Support for trusted authentication
– Databases can now be recreated from existing registration info
– Transaction isolation level can now be selected in SQL editor
– Win64 port
– Allowed deleting from system tables (ex. to stop queries via
MON$STATEMENTS)

As usual, it also has a lot of bugfixes and minor enhancements

IBO Status update from Jason

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Posted in the IBO Support list:

I am glad to report I am now able to make IBO development my full time effort so the progress with IBO should start moving at a very accellerated pace. I’ve been through a total living hell for the past year but I am absolutely determined to get things back in order and its looking like I am finally there. I will very soon have a BETA version of D2009 to test. The changes made are very wide sweeping. This has been a tremendous amount of work and it is going to take a while yet before it is finished. Almost every aspect of IBO has been hit by these changes. But, it will be good to finally make this transition into Unicode. I’m not complaining.

Thanks for everyone’s patience thus far.

Jason Wharton

New versions of IBSurgeon tools: IB/FB FirstAID 2.6, IBBackupSurgeon 2.6, IBUndelete 2.6 and IBSurgeon Pack 3.6

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We are glad to announce availability of new versions of IBSurgeon emergency tools for Firebird and InterBase: IB/FB FirstAID 2.6, IBBackupSurgeon 2.6, IBUndelete 2.6 and IBSurgeon Pack 3.6.
New versions have support for Firebird 2.1 and InterBase 2009, as well as a lot of improvements in recovery algorithms and bug fixes.
Please check IBSurgeon upgrade paths and policy: www.ib-aid.com/upgrade/policy.pdf.
Downloads are here: www.ib-aid.com/downloads

IBUtils goes OPEN SOURCE

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Posted in Firebird-Tools list:

Hi,
Maybe you know the freeware visual tool IBUtils for Interbase/Firebird (http://www.unipals.cz/ibutils/ibutils.htm). The application IBUtils is designed for simlifying database design for Interbase and Firebird databases by showing the links between the tables in your database visually, like some CASE tools do. Every change to the tables in your database made by other tools can be refreshed by one mouse click. You can create tables and tables relations too. Changes to database are logged into a file.

It is my personal project and I developed it within my free time. The last version was released 3 years ago (quite a long time :)) because I am engaged in other projects and do not have time to do anything with IBUtils. So I definitely decided to OPEN THE SOURCES so that anybody can proceed the development of this tool or include it in his/her software. Now I know that I should have done it earlier.

I do not have experience with open source development so I do not know, what is the best way to open the sources of IBUtils. Should I create a project at SourceForge? What licence to use – GPL, LGPL or some other?

There is on thing important to say: I do not want to be engaged in the IBUtils development due to lack of time. I can help only a little to explain some piece of code if needed. So it would the best if there was somebody, who can take over the leadership of this project.

IBUtils uses pure access to Interbase/Firebird with the excellent IB Objects, without need to use BDE by Jason Wharton. IB Objects is not freeware, so this part should be changed to use some other connectivity, but this could be done easily.

Anybody interested?

aleskahanek <akahanek at seznam.cz>

DBRE (DataBase REplicator) 0.19.1 – asynchronous replication DB

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DBRE – is a system for asynchronous point-in-time databases replication. In addition, it can be used for a single transfusion of data between the DBMS
DBRE now supports Firebird and Mysql RDBMS. In future it will be supported Oracle, ODBC, PostgreSQL and SQLite. But any other database can be included to supporting with gomomorphic interface in C++ class.

spotted via nixp.ru Also I like the documentation diagrams , looks a little fuzzy to me

IBProvider Release Candidate 4

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New release candidate of IBProvider Professional Edition has appeared. Is the modern driver for access to 16 versions of the Firebrd and Interbase servers.

Improved support of DDEX (Data Designer Extensibility) when working with Firebird and Interbase

IBProvider RC4 has the new option of stored procedures calling in Visual Studio 2008 style via ODBC escape sequences. This innovation allows to create queries and TableAdapters based on stored procedures.

Optimized working with named parameters in SQL query text

  • Fewer limitations for multiple use of same named parameter in SQL query text
  • New algorithm for choosing named parameter data type.
  • Some errors of named parameters procession detected via profound testing by exhaustive method have been eliminated.

Metadata schemes and column descriptions (IColumnsRowset) support user encoding

Metadata schemes and IColumnRowset interface now consider user charset . This allows working with metadata in set encoding.

What comes next?

Spiceworks – Firebird + Php database driven RAD

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An interesting RAD for Firebird and PHP with screenshots

If you are looking for a RAD tool for PHP & you love the Firebird database engine then perhaps you would consider supporting us in the endeavours of this project.

All your PHP source code resides in a Firebird database and can be used across multiple projects. In fact this website is running on the Spiceworks engine. If you want a complex development tool or a simple CMS system then Spiceworks will probably suite your needs. Best of all it runs in your favourite browser. We intend to support Firefox, IE & Safari.

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