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ANN: CopyCat LiveMirror 1.3

October 1, 2014 jonneve Leave a comment

I am pleased to announce that CopyCat LiveMirror 1.3 is officially available!

CopyCat LiveMirror is our database mirroring and backup tool, designed to make it trivial to setup a one-way replication between two Firebird databases, so that you can easily have a reliable, up-to-date backup at your fingertips, at all times. Please refer to our product page for more information

Changes in this release :

* Various core changes and minor bug fixes.
* Fixed bug saving database configuration data.
* Fixed bug causing errors with wide string fields in some situations.
* Improved log viewer window so that it’s responsive even when holding a large log file.
* Added an error reporting module allowing for more detailed error messages and bug reports.
* Fixed bug causing automatic replication to stop after database connection loss. In such a case, LiveMirror will now continue trying to reestablish a connection every time replication fires.
* LiveMirror now excludes fields with errorneous field names (DATE, TYPE, USER, etc) that were allowed in older versions of Firebird and can still be present in some databases.
* Automatically grant full rights to all users for RPL$ system tables created by LiveMirror, so that there will be no error when inserting into RPL$LOG through the triggers when a user makes changes to the database.

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Interview with the author of Sqitch (database change management application)

September 29, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

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

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Mini-interview with Paul Reeves

September 29, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

We started a series or mini-interviews with speakers of Firebird International Conference 2014. The second guest is Paul Reeves

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Mini-interview with Ann W. Harrison

September 26, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

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

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Firebird 3.0 beta 1 is almost ready

September 24, 2014 Cantu Leave a comment

Dmitry Yemanov recently announced (in fb-devel discussion list) that Beta 1 of Firebird 3 is expected to be released in the next week.

Please take some time when Beta1 is out and do as much tests as you can, and report the problems back in fb-devel or Firebird tracker, helping the core developers to address the issues and so speeding up the schedule of the next releases .

Update from Dmitry:

Correction: Beta *code* is expected to be ready (i.e. tagged) the next
week. The release itself will appear slightly later, after composing the
docs and passing QA.

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NHibernate 4.0.1.GA released with Firebird fixes

September 23, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

NHibernate 4.0.1 General Availability is now available for download from Sourceforge and Nuget.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhibernate/?source=directory

This includes fixes for regressions in NH 4.0.0, and some fixes for mapping-by-code and Firebird issues.
Please see the full release notes for more information:
https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core/blob/4.0.1.GA/releasenotes.txt

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Database .NET 13.0 released

September 21, 2014 fishcodelib Leave a comment

Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool, With it you can Browse objects, Design tables, Edit rows, Export data and Run queries with a consistent interface.

New features and improvements from 12.4 to 13.0 (2014/09/22)

Updated to FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll 4.5.1
Added [ADV] Advanced Browsing Options
Added [ADV] Advanced Edit Options
Added Column Properties
Added Exporting and Displaying Hexadecimal string
Added Decrease Indent and Increase Indent
Added Restoring last object location
Improved Code Folding
Improved Automatic brace completion
Improved AutoComplete and IntelliSense
Improved Query Builder
Improved Selected Text to Query Builder
…and more.

You’re welcome to download it from http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm
Free, All-In-One, Portable, Single executable file and Multlanguage.

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Avoding blind sql injections in #php

September 20, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

Common steps in avoiding sql injections

1.First step is to sanitize the inputs and never trust what comes from POST/GET :

2.Another tip is to Always use prepared statements (in ibase) or PDO that is more safe (query stays unchaged while executing the php script) and the parameters will be the only changes in the queries (feed them from post/get) also casting the variables to int and string is a good way filtering is not enough, casting is better

3.Another posibility is using stored procedures were business rules are done inside firebird and you specify only the parameters (this way the query stays unmodified and the where clause can’t be changed by evil hackers)

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Firebird Manual Pages Reorganisation and cleanup

September 16, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

Paul Vinkenoog cleaned up that page and wrote on Firebird-docs:

– On top are the most important version-specific docs for the currently supported versions, i.e. 2.5 and 2.1 Quick Start Guides and LangRef Updates.

– After that, the Command Line Utilities manuals, followed by other user manuals, reference material and the Firebird licenses.

– Then come the manuals on no longer supported versions, the IB6 manuals, and finally the manuals for Firebird docwriters.

I’m sure we can still do better, by integrating some of the docs pages and using only one line per document (with the available language links listed like we used to, e.g. “en fr de nl”), which saves a lot of vertical scrolling, but that’s for another day.

Cheers

ps: Thanks Lukas Eder for suggestions

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Firebird Conference 2014: only 1 month left

September 16, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird International Conference 2014 will take place on October 24-25, in Prague. 2 days of the intensive talks from Firebird core and drivers developers, vendors of leading Firebird tools and even legends of the database world: Ann Harrison and Jim Starkey.

Take a look at detailed talks descriptions. Don’t miss the biggest event of the year, register now!

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