NBackup support in DotNet FirebirdClient
NBackup via Services API is landed in DotNet FirebirdClient
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Loading...The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.12
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.12.
This is a bug fix release, built with the current Free Pasca Compiler 2.6.2.
Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.0_fixes_branch#Fixes_for_1.0.12_.28Merged.29
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2
The release is available for download at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/
Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the “Lazarus 1.0.12″ directory.
Minimum requirements:
Windows: 98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
Mac OS X: 10.5, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 12
New GSOC update for the previous week:
Current status of the firebird-sdbc driver is:
– (Var)Char, Numeric and Date/Time types all supported. (No support for blob/clob/array/etc. yet.)
– Data Editing in the GUI works.
– Data Insertion works.
– Table and Column definition/manipulation is mostly complete, there might still be a few minor-to-major issues, indexes aren’t supported at all.
– Usable on Linux, Mac, Windows (thanks to tml for fixing the fbembed
library / loading on Mac).
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Editline is updated in Firebird 3.0 isql console client with UTF-8 support
Editline is used in Firebird isql console client , the last version is already imported in firebird 3.0
https://github.com/asfernandes/firebird/tree/master/extern/editline
So it brings UTF-8 support at last in the console with a few patches
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-362
Thanks to Frank Schlottmann-Gödde for his efforts
ps:It’s history in Firebird tree is a little bit convoluted http://firebird.1100200.n4.nabble.com/firebird-devel-Editline-digging-into-not-just-cmdline-history-was-qmtesting-td1124010.html
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird 2013 Tour
Firebird Project is glad to announce Firebird 2013 Tour – series of seminars around the world, devoted to Firebird, with members of Firebird Project as speakers.
The first seminar will be in Siegburg (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), November 22, 2013.
Firebird 2013 Tour will be devoted to all aspects of transactions, from the basic idea, to the internal implementation, best practices and guidance how to effectively use transactions in the applications, and, of course, performance analysis of transactions and related areas.
List of topics to be covered:
- Transactions from the beginning: isolation levels and specific Firebird parameters (no_rec_version, table locking, read/write, wait/nowait), examples of their usage
- How to use effectively isolation levels and parameters in multi-user applications, typical errors in transactions management
- Internal implementation of transactions in Firebird, including versioning, locking and multi-generation mechanism
- Garbage, sweep, auto-sweep: what are they and how to make them work for you and not against you
- Effective management of transactions in various development tools (Delphi, Java, .NET, etc)
- Transactions monitoring: transaction markers, MON$ tables, Trace API, third-party tools, how to find bottlenecks in transaction management and optimize database performance with monitoring
- Best practices of transaction management, special approaches to optimize transaction in closed sourced applications.
- Overview of Firebird 3.0 features
The detailed schedule of talks will be published later.
Organizer and general sponsor of Firebird 2013 Tour is IBSurgeon Ltd.
Details
Seminar will take place in http://www.kranzparkhotel.de/, Siegburg, Germany, November 22, 2013, from 09-00 to 18-00. It’s ~1hour from Cologne and 1h15min from Frankfurt (by train).
Attendee’s fees
Attendee’s fee includes seminar attendance, coffee-breaks, lunch and beverages. Room is not included.
Early bird registration is available till September 30, 2013.
Early bird registration fee – EUR 89, for group of 3+ attendees – EUR 79/person.
Regular price registration (after September 30, 2013) is EUR 109, for groups 3+ 99 eur/person.
There are limited seats, so please take your chance and register as soon as possible.
Please feel free to ask any questions to organizer’s email firebird2013@ib-aid.com
Original announcement: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-tour-2013/
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Perl driver DBD-Firebird 1.12 is released
New version for Firebird Perl driver
Changes for version 1.12
- Do not package MYMETA
- Make embedded tests actually run when the libs are there (RT#81621)
- Produce sensible POD for DBD::FirebirdEmbedded
- Require Test::Exception that does not break caller()
- drop usage of bytes_from_utf8 when feeding character data to firebird
- use fb_config if available for finding firebird directories
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...IBSurgeon FBDataGuard 2.8: Update of monitoring and database protection tool
FBDataGuard, a server-side tool to monitor Firebird databases and prevent corruptions, was just updated to the version 2.8. This version contains stability improvements and minor bug fixes, improved support of SSL and support of SMTP-servers.
For ISVs (i.e., companies which produce Firebird-based software and need to protect a lot of installations) IBSurgeon now offers unlimited 1 year subscription for FBDataGuard for fixed price (EUR 990/USD1390). Regular price for
“Unlimited” means that there is no restrictions on how many FBDataGuard instances will be installed, and also it means that installed instances will work permanently. “1 year subscription” means that subscriber can install, reinstall and upgrade FBDataGuard installations during subscription period.
Please download new FBDataGuard from Deploy Center (deploy.ib-aid.com or www.ib-aid.com:8180) and install. Also, FBDataGuard User Guide is available now in Portuguese.
For more information about FBDataGuard, trial downloads and purchase visit www.ib-aid.com.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Report of the 10th FDD is now on-line
The report (with pictures) of the 10th edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day Conference is now on-line (in English and Portuguese).
(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Database Workbench 4.4.1 released
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool: ” Database Workbench 4.4.1 Pro ” For more information, see here. |
This version includes fixes for issues as reported by our users.
The free Lite Editions will be released later.
Database Workbench supports:
– Borland InterBase (6.x – XE )
– Firebird ( 1.x, 2.x )
– MS SQL Server/MSDE ( 7, 2000, 2005, 2008, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express )
– MySQL 4.x, 5.x
– Oracle Database ( 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g )
– Sybase SQL Anywhere ( 9, 10, 11 and 12 )
– NexusDB ( 3.0 and up )
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...ADO.NET provider for Firebird 3.1.1.0 is ready
The version 3.1.1.0 of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is ready for your download!
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