tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73928692012-01-27T15:58:22.089+01:00Delphi and Firebird notes...Fikret Hasovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03643947643925028862noreply@blogger.comBlogger8211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392869.post-30183018613801432662010-10-05T10:20:00.000+02:002010-10-05T10:21:04.183+02:00

Recorded Firebird 2.5 Launch webinar is available at http://www.mindthebird.com/download/firebird25launchwebinar041010.zip

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Today the Firebird 2.5 is being released. You can read the press release and most importantly release notes. And sure, you can download it and use/test/deploy. Congratulation to us, the Firebird Project, especially the core team. And also to you, users, I hope you’ll enjoy and like the new Firebird 2.5 version as we (I) do. Note: The MindTheBird campaign team will run a webinar today at 13:00

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Dear Firebird Foundation members and sponsors, dear Firebird developers and users,I wish everybody a happy Firebird project's 10th birthday.As you may know, in July 2000, Borland Software Corp. (formerly known as Inprise) releasedthe beta version of InterBase 6.0 as open source. The community of waiting developers andusers preferred to establish itself as an independent, self-regulating team

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April 27, 2010, GMT 15-00 pm Delphi and Firebird, by Marco Cantu (in English). Join LiveMeetingDescription from Marco Cantu:Since many Delphi developers use Firebird, Embarcadero recently added a native and specific Firebird driver to its dbExpress architecture.In this session I’ll offer an overview of how this driver works in terms of accessing to data and metadata, cover some of the

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Database Workbench 4 is the next major version of multi-DBMS developer tool, it offers new features and improvements and represents a major milestone in the history of this tool.

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Marco Cantu blogged about his upcoming webinar, promoted by MindTheBird campaign.

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Firebird V2.1.3 for Solaris Sparc (64bit) is available for download.

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April 8, 2010, 14-00 GMT Technological history of Firebird – 3 decades of innovations, by Ann W Harrison (in English). Connection details http://www.mindthebird.com/benefits.html

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You can download webinar recording here http://www.mindthebird.com/download/mtbweb20100406.zip

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Firebird Webinar on the topic SuperClassic: new architecture in Firebird, is to be presented by Dmitry Yemanov. To participate as an observer, follow instructions from Events page of the Firebird website.

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Firebird Webinar "SuperClassic: new architecture in Firebird", by Dmitry Yemanov, will take place on April 6th, GMT 15.00 - Details will follow soon.

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Materials include presentations, email and press-release templates, banners and other resources to promote Firebird. Download link to Bosnian translation of these is http://www.mindthebird.com/download/MindTheBird_Bosnian.zip

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Now's the time to discover the universal and open-source database: Firebird 2.5. This new release of the award-winning, powerful and feature-rich database brings even more features and greater performance, allowing millions of developers worldwide to build fast, scalable and robust applications. MindTheBird! is the Firebird Community activation campaign, whose main goal to support launch of

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The JVCS team is happy to announce the JEDI VCS 2.41 client release,which is intended as a maintenance release for 2.40 but also includessome new features.

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Nikolay Samofatov asked what is the process to submit patches and is it possible to obtain commit rights for the project:Read more here

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New features:- New FB2 Database properties:.InfoActiveTransactionsCount.InfoCreationDate- Support for quoted parametters (:"my param").- Metadata explorer now read roles (Pierre Yager).- New Lazarus sample to explore metadatas.bug fixes:- TJvUIBEvent bug when destroying component is fixed.- ExecSQL now call Execute when query is prepared;- When a query don't return fields, a call to next

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SQL Maestro Group is announcing the release of Firebird PHP Generator. It is a freeware but powerful Firebird GUI front-end that allows you to generate high-quality PHP scripts for the selected tables, views and queries for the further working with these objects through the web. Key features: Data management: adding, editing and deleting recordsCustomization of the HTML appearanceFiltering and

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> After a long delay, Microtec is pleased to announce the release of the> long-awaited CopyCat version 2.0!>> CopyCat is a set of Interbase/Firebird replication components for> Delphi and> C++Builder. Using CopyCat, you can easily build applications> comprising advanced> database replication capabilities, which can be deployed royalty-free.>> Version 2 introduces a number of major

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IBUndelete V2.0 for Firebird and InterBase is available. This version now supports Firebird 2.0.x and InterBase 2007 database structures and improved undelete algorithms.

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From Slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/0314222Codegear (now a subsidiary of Borland) has just released version 1.0 of Delphi for PHP, a RAD development environment (running on Windows) that produces standard PHP code. It features a large set of built-in components, including ones that use AJAX for database access; and Codegear is encouraging users to develop their own

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The Firebird team is pleased to announce that the first Alpha builds of Firebird V.2.1 are ready for testing. Binary and source kits for Linux and and some Win64 and Win32 kits should start appearing at the Sourceforge mirrors today. For a summary of new features and bug fixes, see HERE.

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Myles Wakeham wrote about Delphi for PHP and firebird issues: Well I received my downloadable Delphi for PHP today. I haven’t had a huge amount of time to play with it, but there are some very impressive features, but a couple of ‘critical’ missing features for me.

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The developers who brought us Delphi, that Ferrari of Integrated Development Environments, are entering the dynamic language tools race, and this time they are sporting Ruby red.

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Firebird 2.0.1 package is accepted in Debian unstable

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Morfik 07 was released a few days ago.It uses Firebird as the default database.Check it out, it is a great tool for generating AJAX web applications.

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Devrace have published a new article “Devrace FIBPlus: Optimization of network traffic in Delphi and C++ Builder applications”. From it you will get to know:Caching metadata.Using poRefreshAfterPost option in TpFIBDataSet Options.Recurrent use of queries.Client BLOB-filters. «Transparent» packing of BLOB-fields, etc.

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This is the first sub-release since the 2.0 release in November, 2006. It adds no new features (those are coming in v.2.1) but provides a large number of bug-fixes and a few improvements. It is highly recommended that v.2.0 installations be upgraded to get the benefits of these.Important ChangeIn Firebird 2.0, a deliberate restriction was imposed to prevent anyone from dropping, altering or

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There are several reports that Delphi 2007 for Win32 gone RTM, and in some countries you can already download it. For more information check http://blogs.codegear.com/.First impressions are that this easily can be THE best Delphi release to date!

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By default, Firebird stores backup files on local disk, but using GBak you can use something like the following to backup a remote database, locally.gbak -b -z 192.168.0.1:MyDBAlias "C:\DatabasesBackup\localbackup.fbk" -verbose -user SYSDBA -password masterkey

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The following solution was originally posted to the Firebird Support Mail List by Ivan Prenosil.This solution only returns an approximate record count*, and will include records that have been deleted (and not yet garbage collected) as well as records that have been inserted but not yet committed.Code:/* first update the statistics */UPDATE RDB$INDICES SET RDB$STATISTICS = -1;COMMIT;/* Display

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If you bought an original copy of The Firebird Book: A Reference for Database Developers directly from IBPhoenix you should have already received an email giving you instructions on how to download your free copy of the Firebird 2.0 Supplement to the book.Otherwise you might want consider buying the supplementdirectly from the IBPhoenix shop.The Supplement follows the format and layout of the

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Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.David Elias has updated his patch for Firebird support in Django. All tests are passed with the current version of this patch and author consider it in production-ready quality.

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Firebird V2.01 Release Candidate 2 is available for download.This sub-release introduces a number of bug fixes done since the v.2.0 release in November. It does not add any new functionality to the database engine. A minor improvement is detection of Gentoo or FreeBSD during configuration.An important reversion to 1.5 behaviour has occurred in this sub-release, as follows:In Firebird 2.0, a

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According to David I , Delphi for PHP will officialy support Firebird:"Components for database access include: Database, Table, Query, and Stored Procedure. CodeGear's InterBase (6, 6.5, 7.x and 2007) is directly supported using InterBase Express components that talk directly to the InterBase API for high performance database applications. Beyond InterBase, the following databases and

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DevLoop has just published a free paper (US mirror) [zipped .pdf] benchmarking some popular database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, DB2, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere, on Linux using JDBC. The focus here is on non-real setups where we can analyze the individual aspects that might affect system performance. The code is available (GPL) so that anyone can reproduce the results.

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New hotfixes for Delphi, C++Builder, C#Builder, Turbo Delphi, Turbo Delphi for .NET, Turbo C++, and TurboC# are now available for download

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DelphiSpeedUp Version 2.4 is released:Version 2.4 (2007-02-12) Added: FastCode 0.6.4 Added: Lots of new faster functions. Added: Option "Disable FastQuit" that removes the "Close all and terminate process" menu item from the file menu. Fixed: _LStrLCmp/_WStrWCmp calls from the RTL itself weren't replaced by _LStrEqual/_WStrEqual where applicatable. Fixed: Package unloading hadn't

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CodeGear has announced a virtual online conference that will take place in the second week of March. The conference is called CodeRage. The CodeRage 2007 web site has only limited information for now, but includes the date, March 12-16. Here is the conference logo:

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Two names popping up in this delphi.non-technical thread for new Delphi versions. According to the thread: Delphi Spacely - Delphi for Vista (Win32 and AJAX)Delphi Astro - Delphi for PHP The source of this information is a Swedish reseller. More info in Swedish through this link. This sounds very interesting to me. (It's February not April so......)Keep an eye on CodeGear for possible

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Steve Trefethen writes about Delphi improvements..." Lately, there's been a lot of effort put into improving the Delphi IDE's UX and wanted to comment briefly that in the past week alone we've made some great progress. For example, there have been recent improvements in: IDE flicker (now nearly flicker free) Desktop .. "Read more here

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Check out this blog post from Dmitry Kouzmenko about how to run FB on Vista and not loose performance.

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This paper from CodeGear tries to convince users that InterBase 2007 is the best database for them. It even mentions “alternatives” like MySQL, PostgreSQL and …FIREBIRD 1.5! Of course, like any marketing paper, it tries to show that IB is the best option But it is curious that they decided to compare IB 2007 with FB 1.5 (instead of 2.0). Also, it seems that most of their “complaints” about FB,

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The Firebird team is pleased to announce that v.1.5.4 of Firebird forWindows and Linux is now released and awaiting your pleasure. Kitsshould be available from many sites today and more over the weekend.A number of additional retrospective fixes have been introduced forbugs that became apparent and were fixed in the Firebird 2 treeduring the Firebird 2.0 beta cycle.This is probably the final

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Today we have a survey on Open source software. If you use Open Spurce in your development, please take our survey and help influence the course of Open Source Software. Your opinions will be read by the largest platform and tools companies and you will be automatically entered into a drawing to win $500. To take the survey, please go to: http://www.evansdata.com/EDC_LX_2007_1.html Ed. Note:

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Choosing the right database management system by Arif Mohamed on ComputerWeekly.com mentions Firebird.

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New nbackup (or online dump) myth by by Dimitri Kuzmenko

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The Examiner Newspaper (Tasmania, Australia) was approached to be a supporting partner in Ken Gourlay's solo sailing endeavour around the world as a fund raising effort for research into eyesight disorders. His website was designed and built around Firebird. Thanks to Nigel Weeks for the information.

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Jiri Cincura have created a small how-to for Firebird Embedded and .NET.

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An intrepid new Delphi user posted this in the newsgroups: Hi everyone,I'm trying to learn about Delphi.Please give me some advice to learnDelphi for beginners.Thanks all. Nick Hodges posted few links: Marco Cantu's Essential Delphi TutorialNeil Moffat's Marvelous Delphi BasicsLiz's Delphi Tutorial3DBuzz's Delphi TutorialsCreating Your First Application on The Delphi Wikidelphi.about.com's A

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BlazeTop (former SQLHammer) version 1.7.0.99 is available for download What’s new in version 1.7.0.99? New features and enhancements: 1.Borland InterBase 2007 support has been added: the instance_name property has been added to the server registration options; now scripts for InterBase 2007 can have a clause BATCH START; ... BATCH EXECUTE; 2.Improved mechanism of checking Open Office data

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Release Candidate kits of Firebird 2.0.1 are now available for download at the Firebird main site. This sub-release introduces a number of bug fixes done since the v.2.0 release in November. It does not add any new functionality to the database engine. A minor improvement is detection of Gentoo or FreeBSD during configuration. An important reversion to 1.5 behaviour has occurred in this

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Zeichick's Take: Tooling Up With CodeGear by Alan Zeichick on SD Times.

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Open source is good for the economy, according to a report published by the European Commission. More details on The Register.

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IBOjects V4.7 with support for Firebird V2.0 can be downloaded for evaluation.

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DBTools Software announces the availability of the DBManager Professional Enterprise Edition V3.4.2 and DBManager Standard Edition V3.2.2.

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If you have some Open Source delphi project, please tell Steve about it.Steve Trefethen's Delphi Open Source Projects page.

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The new Null Guide is finally online, at its usual locations:http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/nullguide.htmlhttp://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-Null-Guide.pdf

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The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide has been updated: http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/qsg2.html [See remaining text…] PDF version will be built in a couple of days.

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The owners of the InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine iBase.ru and IBPhoenix today agreed to collaborate in producing future issues of the magazine. Under the agreement, free copies of the magazine will be distributed to IBPhoenix Support and Subscription customers automatically in advance of publication.

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What is IBExpertLive? HK-Software has implemented a streaming system based on the Firebird databaseserver, which publishes pictures and audio, as needed to view the presentations fromthe 2004, 2005 and 2006 Firebird Conferences. There are also IBExperttutorial videos enabling you to learn more about working with Firebird andInterBase with IBExpert. There is currently about 55GB of video data

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Oracle on Tuesday released fixes for 51 vulnerabilities that affect its software products. The update is part of the company's quarterly patch cycle. Oracle preannounced its patch release Thursday, when, for the first time, it published an advance notification so customers could plan ahead to apply the fixes.

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Nick Hodges has some interesting news about the next version of Delphi. In a non-tech thread in the forums, Nick Hodges (Delphi Product Manager) has stated that "the next release of Delphi will use MSBuild as the build engine". This is very good news, as the Project Manager in recent versions of Delphi got some extra features and a change to install build tools, but with limited capabilities.

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The JVCS team is happy to announce the JEDI VCS 2.41 server release,which is intended as a maintenance release for 2.40 but also includes somenew features.What's changed:------------------ support of MySQL5 directly out of the installer (ZEOS 6.6)- Multiple logins with the same user is now possible which allows the simultaneous use of the standalone JVCS Client and the JVCS IDE client- faster

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Dmitry Yemanov posted to the Firebird-devel list his proposals for merging the Firebird 2 code with the Vulcan code.Here it comes, with comments from others:Key Points----------1) The result of the merge is a new CVS tree2) Modules refactored by Jim are taken from the Vulcan tree3) The rest is taken from the FB tree4) All the pieces are adjusted to fit each other5) Vulcan's code is fixed to use

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The papers (where available) for the Firebird Conference 2006 talks are available for download here (you need to right click and use “Save As”).

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LinuxQuestions.org has just launched the voting for its 2006 Members' Choice Awards. The awards enable Linux community members to select their favorite products of the year in 21 categories, including distribution, browser, office suite, desktop environment, and database.The polls will close on Feb. 18, with winners being announced shortly afterward. Last year's winners include Ubuntu, Firefox,

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Devrace BlazeTop (former SQLHammer) version 1.7 is available for immediate download. Besides many fixes and enhancements it includes Firebird 2.0 support, SQL Editor optimization (text syntax highlighting) and full UNICODE support. Now you also ave an option to purchase BlazeTop for the price of 129 Euro only!

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A plugin for Delphi/C++Builder 5/6/7/2005, BDS 2006 and Turbo Delphi/C++/C# Professional. It speeds up the time to load the IDE and it also improves the whole speed of the IDE. This is achieved by replacing some often used RTL functions by FastCode function that are optimized for the used CPU. It also adds some caches for function that work on filenames like ExpandFileName().Important information

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From the Sweet Mother of Databases dept.:The code for the Falcon Storage Engine for MySQL has been released as open source. Jim Starkey, known as the father of Interbase, is behind its creation; previously he was involved with the Firebird SQL database project. article on slashdot via osdir.com

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Pre-release builds of a release candidate for Firebird 1.5.4 are ready for testing.

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I would like to wish a very happy new year to all Firebird and Delphi users and developers!It seems that 2007 will be a very exciting year for Firebird, with two scheduled releases (2.1 and 3.0) and for Delphi as well, with two scheduled releases (Delphi Highlander and Delphi for Vista) .

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With the free Turbo Explorer line, Borland brings programming to the masses. Each of the four Turbo Explorer 'personalities' targets a different combination of programming language and platform: Turbo Delphi and Turbo C++ for Windows, and Turbo Delphi and Turbo C# for .NET. There are over 200 components for building programs, but the abundance of features may be overwhelming to new users.

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Turbo Delphi - The Return! - In the good old days, Turbo Pascal was small, fast and inexpensive. Now Turbo Delphi is (we hope) small and fast. And it's free!

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Here is the link for the last ZeosDBO component (but it's not the stable version) http://users.telenet.be/mdaems/ at least you can know that the development of this component is still exist

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HardSoft TV presented in program #275 an interview with Carlos H. Cantu recorded during the 3º Firebird Developers Day. You can watch it online now (audio is in portuguese). In the next programs (released every 2 weeks), there will be other interviews with other FDD speakers.

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SQL Maetro - A new administration tool for Firebird Databases is available for download (windows only).

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Meiji Kimura posted an on-line article in IT-Media about Firebird Developers Day. Non-japanese speakers can try some online translation tools to be able to read the article.

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Source and binary packages for Windows (setup.exe and .zip) and Linux (gtk1 and gtk2 variants) are available for download. MacOSX and Debian/Ubuntu ones should follow soon (and probably FreeBSD one too). We are also looking for someone to try if things work on Solaris too.New features- System tables now are available in main tree view- Compatibility with Firebird 2.0- SQL editor: Autocompletion

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Dear Friends, IBase, Inc is glad to announce The 1st Russian Firebird Conference. It will take place in Moscow, Russia, October 14, 2006.Firebird Core developers, vendors of many related products and well-known enthusiasts will be there to present the most recent news and plans regarding Firebird 2, new versions of developers products and so on. Check-in to conference (in Russian):http://

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Did you seen the Firebird book in local shops ?One mysql user is complaining that mysql books aren’t in the “database” area [ED: seems that he spoted one firebird book]

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There has been one official release of the ActiveRecord-JDBC adapter, a 0.1 that has basic SQL support for MySQL.[Ed: Firebird support will be added soon , see bellow] … We are planning a second release of the JDBC adapter very shortly. It should have reasonably solid migrations/DDL support for MySQL, Oracle, and Firebird, as well as some level of support for HSQLDB, Derby, and others. It’s

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GCafeSoft is a program, written absolutely for Gaming Cafe owners. The Server is a robust-.NET based application, based on the v1.1 .NET Framework. The database is also as robust an element in the Server — architecture being based on the Firebird Embedded Architecture.

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dnfBB is a powerful and fast 3 Tier, C# / .Net discussion board or forum. With native support for multiple forums within the same database structure which fully utilises Firebird’s features (Stored procs, triggers etc) The final beta version of dnfBB is now available for download, this version includes all the features that were allocated to Version 1. Without a doubt there will be a few

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I’ve placed the first book of a Firebird 2.0 manual on-line:http://www.janus-software.com/fbmanual/ This book is about the stored procedure and trigger language “PSQL” andconsists of about 100 web pages. I would expect that all 8 plannedbooks will be online before the end of the year. The on-line manual is user editable, in the sense that users can postextra information, examples and corrections

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Joe Brockmeyer writes: "With the 5.1.12 release, MySQL will be dropping the Berkeley DB (BDB) storage engine from its list of supported database engines. Some observers have suggested that this move is connected to Oracle's purchase of Sleepycat, and that InnoDB may be next. However, Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, says that they're unlikely to drop InnoDB, and the Berkeley engine

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The DevCo group within Borland had previously announced a Developer Conference for the fall of 2006. Now the conference has been officially delayed to "a date (to be determined) during the first quarter of 2007", to quote Christine Ellis. She continues saying that "No further information regarding specific dates or location is available at this time. The decision to postpone the Conference was

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IBReplicator V2.1.10 is now available for download. Updated information is available in the release notes.

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Install IBProvider on a server where MSSQL works. Launch "SQL Server Enterprise Manager". Connect to MSSQL server that will work with InterBase database. Go to tree item "Sequrity\Linked Servers". Read more

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"Every organization in the world has some form of Microsoft Access and Lotus Notes. And they want nothing more than to get off this technology or older technology that's not Web based or secure." And not every open source project is all that easy, he added. Look at the complexity of open source scripting language PHP. "It can be an esoteric language, and it can be difficult to read and understand

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Here are firebird package details , they have python-kinterbasdb+flamerobin included in the linux distro, If you don't know what is archlinux therea are some reviews on the distrowatch.org

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We are pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 Beta2 package . With this second beta release we are a great step forward. There is no update path provided due to a number of extensive database schema changes. Everyone having the first beta installed need to re-install the software. If you do a new installation, please be sure to also remove any remaining files, especially those within

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There is a new chapter in the Firebird Tutorial for .NET : Firebird Data Access Designer (DDEX) installation . Follow these instructions to get Firebird support in the Visual Studio .NET 2005 (Standard and up): Browse Firebird databases in the Server Explorer Use "Configure Data Source" Wizard to configure SqlDataSource component Connection Properties editor etc. No need for Visual

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Here is the Firebird's Gentoo page (compiled with gcc4.1) and there is more info in the Changelog

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OroLogic uses firebird in their product OroTimesheet Here is what they say about firebird :) OroTimesheet 5 uses the database Firebird 1.5 to store its data. Firebird is a relational database that can be installed on Windows, Linux, Solaris and other platforms. Using Firebird with OroTimesheet 5 gives users a great reliability and stability (relational database), a low licensing cost (Firebird

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"Fully half of small and medium-sized businesses say they use little to no open source software. An additional 20% say they use it only for applications primarily used by IT. A key issue for emerging enterprises is the depth and quality of support available to deploy and troubleshoot open source software." Read more

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Help Desk for IIS is a web-based help desk software solution for delivering customer service and support. It easily installs on your MS web server. All information is stored in a Firebird database, and the web pages themselves are produced by server-side ISAPI extension. Read more

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While a wave of consolidation has racked the software world of Silicon Valley in recent years, John Chen, the chief executive of Sybase, has managed to stay under the radar and keep his company profitable. Starting in 1998, Sybase, a maker of relational database software, embarked on a mission to become a leader in the nascent market for mobile information. Read more

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See the project page www.parmaja.com/projects/firebirdsetup/ or directly download from here. It includes: Flamerobin GUI tool, FBMonitor tool, the FirebirdSQL FBConfig + alias manager, and FBServiceMonitor monitor. The full InnoSetup script is inlcuded so you can rebuild the setup again with your options.

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A Russian company specialising in banking software has released a lite version of it's OLAP and datawarehouse system "Nostradamus", which is based on the Firebird open source RDBMS. The full version of "Nostradamus" software run on Oracle 8i and later. The system was made compatible with Firebird in all mostly used aspects, such as visual database table and view editor, glossary system, data

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Some time ago I wrote about function based indexes, showing a PostgreSQL based case, right now I'll show a Firebird based example, due to the fact that Firebird 2.0 supports Expression Indexes, which are my good old function based indexes. Read More on pabloj's blog

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