Firebird News

Adriano wrote on Firebird-devel and twitter :

I put in my github account the first version of cloop – Cross Language
Object Oriented Programming.
– https://github.com/asfernandes/cloop

This first version is limited to void and int datatypes, supports C, C++
and Free Pascal, and the makefile works only in POSIX.

Some files in src/tests/test1 are autogenerated. They are flag as this
in their first line.

Tests consists of three (one for each language) executable and three
libraries as well.

The executable is the consumer test part and receives a parameter with
the library name of the supplier test part, so we can test any
combination of C/C++/Pascal as consumer/supplier. Examples:

./output/debug/bin/test1-pascal output/debug/bin/test1-pascal.so
./output/debug/bin/test1-c output/debug/bin/test1-pascal.so
./output/debug/bin/test1-cpp output/debug/bin/test1-pascal.so

./output/debug/bin/test1-cpp output/debug/bin/test1-c.so

Today’s guest is Mark Rotteveel, developer of JayBird, Firebird JDBC driver, and speaker at Firebird Conference 2014.

Firebird truncates decimal places when dividing, rather than rounding. Furthermore, it bases the number of decimal points in the returned value on the number of decimal places in the numerator and denominator.

Why is Firebird truncating instead of rounding? And why does it base the returned value on the number of decimal places in the query?

Here is the answer to the Question on StackOverflow

Upscene Productions is excited to officially release FB TraceManager V3.5.2!

This release adds UI docking capabilities, improved Firebird 3 support and fixes minor bugs.

More information is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/news/item/20140930

Feel free to check out the following V3.5 demo video

More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/fb_tracemanager/

Thanks for your continued support.

As you might now Ștefan Suciu created a Firebird port for Sqitch

Bellow is a interview with the author of Sqitch : David Wheeler with a few Firebird mentions

ps: There is a GUI for Sqitch – Simple SQL change management created by Stefan

https://github.com/stefansbv/sqitch-gui

We are starting series or mini-interviews with speakers of Firebird International Conference 2014. The first guest is Ann W. Harrison