Devart company continues to improve their connectivity solutions including ODBC driver for Firebird.
Recently company released new version of it’s driver which now has beta support of Linux and Mac OS. You can download new drivers now
Devart company updated its set of ODBC drivers for various databases including Firebird database.
New Firebird ODBC driver gained improved performance and:
Check what our new ODBC drivers can offer to you.
Devart team is proud to introduce new Firebird ODBC Drivers.
The most significant features in this version are:
– Drivers fully support standard ODBC API functions and data types, multiple server data types and features.
– Advanced connection string parameters provided to allow any desktop and web applications to access databases from various environments and platforms, that support ODBC.
– Full Unicode support provides capacity to interpret Unicode function calls without the intervention of the Driver Manager.
– Advanced data conversion from DBMS data types to native ODBC data types.
– Support for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms provides capabilities to develop both 32-bit and 64-bit cross-platform database applications (Linux and Mac OS X platforms will be supported in the next version).
ODBC driver for Firebird supports Firebird server and client versions 2.x, 1.x.
Via Paul Beach Blog
I was recently contacted by a Firebird user on MacOSX who was trying to get the Firebird ODBC driver to build on MacOSX. I thought I would try and step in to help.
For those of you who follow the CVS checkins for OdbcJdbc you might have noticed the addition of a number of a new directory in the Builds directory called Gcc.darwin containing a makefile, a readme and a .sh file to create a lipo’ed dylib. The driver sucessfully builds and passes some simple tests. Feel free to contact me for a copy of the dylib to test further.
The readme contains the following information
I have built Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.1 release today. I have uploaded
all files into sourceforge area
All changes you can look in the file – changes-v20.log.
Regards,
—
Alexander Potapchenko
The Open Source Firebird (IBPhoenix) ODBC driver has been updated to Version 2.0 Release Candidate 2.
Alexander Potapchenko wrote on firebird-odbc list:
I resume development of the ODBC driver. The primary goal to finish ODBC
driver 2.0 (with full x64 support and fixed “blocker” level problems) now.
If you are having any problems with the current driver but have not
reported them because the sub-project wasn’t active, then to add them to
the Bag tracker now.
ps: if you don’t know what is the bag tracker 🙂 it’s Firebird Project’s bug tracker.
Question of the day on Firebird odbc driver list
has anyone used JavaScript in PDF-Forms with the ODBC driver?
I can’t retrieve any values from the database.
ps: maybe the driver is not configured OK
Changes in IBProvider v2 (build 2.6.06.2688)
Changes in IBProvider v3 (build 3.0.0.6327 RC3)
New IBProvider v3 offers the brand new method for working with text data charsets:
See detailed information on working with new character set processor in Firebird and Interbase character sets.
Text columns size in Firebird 2.X
IBProvider started to control text columns size when working with Firebird 2 servers in Unicode mode. If the length of loaded data exceeds the text column size the exclusion will be generated.
IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3
IBProvider v2/v1
IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3 [build 3.0.0.4963]
New build IBProvider v1.9.9.2547 and IBProvider v2.6.3.2547
Details on the Firebird driver site.
