DB Designer Fork 1.2 released
DB Designer Fork is a fork of the fabFORCE DBDesigner 4. DBDesigner is a visual database design system that integrates entity relationship design and database creation. DB Designer Fork generates SQL scripts for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and FireBird.
Release focus: Initial freshmeat announcement
Firebird Code Factory released
SQL Maestro Group is announcing the initial release of a new Firebird related software – Firebird Code Factory. This tool is intended for developing and executing SQL queries and scripts as well as for data management. |
Key features:
- Visual Query Builder
- Handy SQL Editor with code folding and syntax highlighting
- Simultaneous executing of several queries with multi-threading
- Data management: editing, grouping, sorting and filtering abilities
- Data export to as many as 14 file formats including Excel, RTF and HTML
- Data import from Excel, CSV, text files and more
- Powerful BLOB Viewer/Editor
There are also versions of Code Factory for other DBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc. More information.
La gestion des transactions dans Firebird
you can read the article translated here
La gestion des transactions dans Firebird
Présentation du concept de transaction et du modèle transactionnel de Firebird, comparaison par rapport à d’autres SGBD. Avantages et inconvénients, bonnes pratiques de conception et de programmation.
Via http://firebird-fr.eu.org/doku.php?id=wiki:rendez-vous2007
New GDS ( first thoughts )
Carlos Guzmán Álvarez wrote on dotnetprovider mailing list:
We are going to need to implement the version 11 of the Firebird Protocol (in .net provider) and review the buffer handling code to make better checks on
buffer lengths and server responses.
OpenJPA supports Firebird and JayBird
New PlasticSCM-Linux installation features
We have been working on the installers for the platforms supported. We tried to make installation even easier!
Firebird users prefers Firefox
Curiosity of the day
Looking Google Analytics statistics for FirebirdNews site, it is clear that most of Firebird users prefers Firefox over IE. Check the stats below:
- Firefox 55.81%
- Internet Explorer 33.32%
- Opera 7.31%
- Mozilla 2.13%
NHibernate 1.2.0.GA
NHibernate 1.2 is now stable! The new production version has many improvements and features requested by our users in practically every functional area.My blog post has more details about the new features. The migration guide lists all breaking changes between version 1.0 and 1.2.
MDB2 firebird driver 1.4.1 released
You can read the Changelog and release information about the new MDB2 release.Package is maintained by Lorenzo Alberton