updated firebird articles on destructor.de – Stefan Heymann’s web site
Various updates to Firebird articles for Firebird 2.0. New Articles about INSTREG, INSTSVC, ISQL, Firebird 2.1
Various updates to Firebird articles for Firebird 2.0. New Articles about INSTREG, INSTSVC, ISQL, Firebird 2.1
Use INSTSVC to install or deinstall Firebird as a Service on Windows systems. This will install the Firebird together or without the Guardian service.
There seems to be some activity in the cvs on the sf.net area in the previous year (for gmarathon project)
Also the feedback is greatly appreciated on forums or lists
ps: someone asked if the project is dead
Available to all users of GoldMine 6.7 and 7.0.4
GoldMine 7.00.61122 aka GoldMine 7.0.4
The main purpose of this new build is a collection of bug fixes. The most important of which should improve the functionality of sync but there are probably 80 others or so. New features in this build include: Performance enhancements associated with using a FireBird database
Debian users are encouraged to help proof-testing the newly packaged firebird 2.0.
Please help improving the packages by reporting bugs to dam@modsoftsys.com and/or Jabber ID dam@jabber.minus273.org
For Brazilians (and Portuguese speakers in general) that pretend to attend the next FDD edition (2007), please answer the survey available at infopoll.net/live/surveys/s30419.htm to let us know about what is your expectations for the conference.
An updated build of the .pkg file is at:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/Firebird-CS-2.0.pkg.zip
Right Click and Save As.
Fixed, problem with SET NAMES and loading character sets
Fixed, problem with loading UDFs
Regards
Paul Beach
One of our customer recently wanted to perform some heavy duty computations on his Interbase Stored Procedures (analysis and transformations).
Instead of plunging head on in an ad-hoc tool, we started to build a general parser. So we had to start-off with a BNF grammar. We already presented a simplified Sql grammar for the main INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and SELECT requests. So we extended this grammar to handle the stored procedures as well.
Most of the grammar applies to Firebird as well. You can read the full article here.
There’s a new Null Guide beta at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/manual/temp/nullguide/nullguide.html
The following things have been added since the previous beta: