Firebird News

FIBPlus Developers Guide Part II is available for download now. From it you will know about:

• Working with BLOB fields

• Using unique FIBPlus field types

• Working with array fields

• Using TDataSetsContainer containers

• Additional actions for TpFIBUpdateObject data modifying

• Working with shared transactions

• Batch processing

• Centralized error handling – TpFIBErrorHandler

• Getting TFIBSibEventAlerter events

• Debugging FIBPlus applications

• Monitoring SQL queries

• FIBPlus repositories

• Supporting Firebird 2.0

• Additional FIBPlus features (Full UNICODE_FSS support, NO_GUI compilation option, Using
  SynEdit in editors)

• Unique design-time experts: FIBPlusTools

• How to work with services

• Getting server information

• Managing server users

• Backing up and restoring databases

• Getting statistics about databases

If you want to know how to handle database errors with FIBPlus, read a new article in FIBPlus technology section . The article “FIBPlus: handling database errors” tells about:

• Preparation for error handling

• TpFIBErrorHandler properties and features

• Handling exceptions

and demonstrates Delphi and C++ Builder code samples.

SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

It supports Firebird and provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language.

Full version 0.3.5 changelog