Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
Changelog for the pure JavaScript Node.js Firebird driver:
You can install or update from npmjs and you can consult the Commit History
Here is one picture with a Database that contains more than 1000 Stored Procedures
FBClone 2.2.1 is released to google code
This is more than a “bugfix release” for FBClone here are a few of new features and fixes:
-It Can “normalize” a multi charset database by ignoring all “character set” definitions from source db
See flags -ics -ko in combination with -tc UTF8.
-It supports domains in SP parameters as well as NOT NULL, TYPE OF and COLLATE.
-It’s changed creation order of UNIQUE/FOREIGN and VIEW TRG/TABLE TRG as suggested by users in issues.
You need to use it from command line and specify the source and target database
fbclone source employee.fdb target new_db.fdb user sysdba password *****
News via Pierre Yager tweet
Question and Response of the day on the Stack Overflow firebird tag.
The result is a bug filled in the Firebird tracker
Firebird developers can use Firebird events to notify clients about changes in database record data. In this article, I will show and discuss some limitations of Firebird events and compare possible workarounds with a solution based on message-oriented middleware.
The beta version of the IBPhoenix Replicator V4.1 is now available for public testing. Documentation in PDF format. An evaluation key, valid for two weeks, can be accessed via the following web page on ibphoenix.com.
Mark Rotteveel wrote on Firebird-Java
Although I am skeptical about the need for an android port for Jaybird,
I have decided that I am going to spend some time to investigate the
problems involved in porting Jaybird to android.
To that end, I would like to hear if anyone has tried this before, and
what problems arose when trying to do that. Either reply here, or add
your comment to http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/JDBC-280
From the FBCon 10 session videos another one is uploaded: ODS related optimizations in Firebird 3
Presentation By Vlad Khorsun. Session contents: Major change. ODS12 contains a few important features to make some IO-hungry operations such as sweep and natural scan more efficient. I’ll show in detail what was changed and how these changes will affect performance.
This is a very easy task in FreePascal/Lazarus.
Sparky from Firebird Conference 2008 in Italy, Bergamo. Made by Helen Borrie. Originally auctioned by SMS-Timing for 750 EUR. They are now offering it for re-auction and all the money will go back to Firebird Foundation.
Sparky is intact, undamaged and of course unharmed. It was well fed all the time. 🙂
