ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 21 released
Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 21 has released. Here are the
fix:
4.1.2007.21 / 4.1.2009.21 / 4.1.2010.21 Release on 19 Nov 2009
1. Memory leak occurs when Firebird connection is lost.
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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
Firebird Trace Manager – Technical Preview
From Thomas Steinmaurer’s blog :
We at Upscene are working on a new commercial product called Firebird Trace Manager which exposes the new Firebird 2.5 Trace API in a user-friendly way. See the following screen (click to enlarge) for a technical preview:
Performance of the new IBProvider increased by 4.5 times
We are glad to announce the release of new IBProvider Professional v3.0.0.7866.
IBProvider works 4.5 faster than the former versions.
In the new IBProvider version, we removed the cause of low performance of IBProvider builds compiled in Visual Studio. Now these builds work several times faster in both single-threaded and multi-threaded applications.
According to the test results, new IBProvider Professional v3 works 4.5 faster than the former versions.
Performance comparison graph here.
Other features
- We fixed the error related to the queries pool
- New component LPCI.IBP.Samples.RowCursor – the faster substitute for ADODB.Recordset
Source Fiebird driver homepage.
Firebird available in major linux distros
From Philippe Makowski , in fb-general list:
Hi,
Finaly OpenSuse 11.2 is out.
It is the first time that Firebird is in official OpenSuse repositories.After Mandriva (2010.0 is very nice), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora (and RHEL/Centos Fedora project repositories) : OpenSuse
All major free distro have now latest Firebird stable version (2.1.3) available in their official repositories.Enjoy …
Firebird for ISV – Business advantages
Dmitry Kuzmenko posted a presentation about the subject:
#Sql #Puzzle: What the following code do?
Ido Kanner created the following code in his database that works with Firebird SQL . Could you tell what it does ?
ps: This week the answer was posted , but you can first try it without reading the answer.
Benchmarks with Firebird, #MySQL and #PostgreSQL
From Tomneko (Tsutomu Hayashi)
I tested Firebird, MySQL and PostgreSQL with my DbBench on HP ML115G5.
This presentation was already done in japan. (
It’s now uploaded to google docs)
You can view odp presentation here also ppt version is here
It’s up to SlideShare too for thouse who like flash or want to embed it in the blogs.
http://www.slideshare.net/tomneko/firebird25-benchmarksenglish20091031
Database Workbench 3.4.2 released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next
version of the popular database development tools:
” Database Workbench 3.4.2 “
This release includes the Pro and Lite Editions.
Version 3.4.2 includes bugfixes in addition to the
new features in previous versions.
Changes Highlights in 3.4 and previous versions
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– NexusDB v3 support
– Many diagramming improvements
– Better Stored Routine Debugger
– Ability to cancel import/export processes
– Monitoring GUI for Firebird 2.1
– Ability to cancel running queries in NexusDB, SQL Anywhere and Firebird 2.1
– Stored Routine debugger for SQL Anywhere
– Many new features, enhancements and bug fixes…
… and much more …
Download a trial for the Pro Edition or FREE Lite Edition at the downloads page.
#Sequel 3.6.0 Released – lightweight database access toolkit for #Ruby
Sequel 3.6.0 has been released and should be available on the gem
mirrors. The 3.6.0 release adds numerous improvements: