Firebird News

Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.4 was released today, with the following changes:

• fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-79, “Problem with case sensitivity for table/relations name in SET TRANSACTION RESERVING clause”
• fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-174, “SIGSEGV received in libOdbcFb.so: memcpy in JString constructor incorrect input parameter”
• fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-184, “CHAR(X) fields have invalid length if using UTF8 charset and collations”
• fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-190, “ODBC function SQLGetInfo fails if SQL_KEYWORDS InfoType is requested”
• fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-191, “ODBC driver doesn’t show error message for Test connection button in DSN dialog. Improvements in Windows DSN dialog interface”
• fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-192, “Incorrect conversion of time values when retrieved as string”
• correct alignment issues for Sun Solaris and HPUX – updated Linux makefile to support both iODBC and unixODBC, thanks to Paul Beach

You can download it at sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-ODBC-driver/2.0.4-Release/

SQL Maestro Group starts a new product family and announces the release of Firebird Database Converter, a powerful and easy-to-use tool to migrate any database to Firebird server in a few simple steps. Key product features include:

• Copying tables, indexes, and foreign keys
• Native support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird, and SQLite
• Support for all other data sources accessible via ODBC / OLE DB
• Bulk data loading
• Flexible and customizable data type mappings
• Smart database integrity checker
• Command-line interface to automate the conversion

There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc). Read full press-release.