Firebird News

New Flamerobin snapshot uploaded to Debian unstable with the following changes

  * use xz compression for snapshot source tarball
  * New upstream snapshot
     add support for more Firebird 3.0 reserved keywords
     ask before deleting unsaved changes to SQL files
  * switch to WxWidgets 3.0 (Closes: #742092)
    Thanks to Olly Betts for the patch and the testing

Firebird Perl driver version 1.18 is released with the following changes

• a bit more verbose ok() calls in 90-event-ithreads.t
• disable threaded event tests under AUTOMATED_TESTING
• Makefile.PL: check for ‘ibase.h’ presense in potential include dir
• allow empty (but still defined) DBI_PASS/ISC_PASSWORD for tests
• add support for FIREBIRD_DATABASE in tests’ environment
• adjust double tests to not fail with -Duselongdouble perl builds
• fix statement attr returns and rework 40-alltypes.t
• update installation notes wrt threaded perl and OpenSUSE
• add missing pointer initialization (RT#92821, Vadim Belov)
• dbd_st_finish: ignore “cursor already closed” error when closing the cursor
• dbd_st_execute: finish the statement if still active (RT#92810, HMBRAND)

Sometimes you can be very useful if the content of some tables are migrated to Firebird Excel.

Possibly most applications your users know how to use Excel then be easy for them and easy to make your own queries, view charts, etc.. The steps are: Install […]

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What is new in ER/Studio Data Architect Version 9.6.1

New DBMS Platform Support – Firebird

Firebird 2.x: Officially supports Firebird 2.1 and 2.5.

Firebird 1.5: Officially supports Firebird 1.5.

This tutorial explains how to create a sqitch – enabled Firebird project, use a VCS for deployment planning, and work with other developers to make sure changes remain in sync and in the proper order.

We’ll start by creating new project from scratch, a fictional antisocial networking site called Flipr. All examples use Git as the VCS and Firebird as the storage engine.

Author tells his story  on the blog first birthday:

When I launched, one year ago I did not knew if it would be read, if anyone is interested in what I had planned to write, but I thought it needed a blog in Castilian language to help us learn more about Firebird, because it is an engine very good data bases and documentation was missing in our language.

My expectations were not so high , I thought hopefully in a year could reach 10,000 visits and would consider myself very lucky and if reached 20,000 visits. Well, at this time and exceeded 116,000 visits so I am more than happy with the good reception that we have It’s really a very pleasant surprise.

Free Pascal 2.6.4 is a point release from the 2.6.0 fixes branch.

Some highlights are:

• Packages:
  • Lots and lots fixes and improvements for fcl-db
  • web and json packages synchronized.
  • improvements to the chmcmd compiler.
  • Several fixes for winunits (and winceunits)
• Documentation:
  • Many additions
  • fpjson documented

See the changelog for the list of reported bugs which have been fixed in this release.

Thomas Kellerer wrote on Firebird General list
If anyone is interested I have a similar comparison here
http://www.sql-workbench.net/dbms_comparison.html
It includes Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server, DB2, Firebird, MySQL and the three popular Java embedded engines