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Latest FBLib for Delphi/Lazarus

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:50:18 -0700

At the moment (well, for the last two years now) we only use FBLib. The original author is nowhere to be found, so I started maintaining or rather fixing the issues we deteced. For our latest FBLib, you can get a update from tiOPF’s project on SourceForge.net. svn co https://tiopf.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tiopf/3rdParty/FBLib/Trunk FBLib I tagged the original version of FBLib as well, so [...]

Vote for Firebird on Sourforge Community Awards - It’s the Finals

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:50:18 -0700

Firebird is now Finalist on Sourforge Community Awards , and is time to vote it

Solaris and the 256 File Descriptor Problem

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:49:51 -0700

Some of you reading this may remember that back when InterBase 6.0 was released on Solaris we ran into a fundamental problem on Solaris. It seems that since 1992 there has been an open bug documenting Solaris’ file descriptor problem: “32-bit stdio routines should support file descriptors >255.” When this issue was discovered, we chose to [...]

What’s in Firebird 2.5?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:53:23 -0700

“Work-in-Progress” release notes for the forthcoming Firebird 2.5 Alpha are available for browsing online.

Darwin Race of Languages - now running!

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:47:52 -0700

The Darwin Race of Languages contest is now running! You can participate and contribute with Firebird community at the same time, choosing to build a gBak GUI frontend tool (check more details here).

firebird-python kinterbasdb 3.2.1 released (Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:28:20 GMT)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:54:14 -0700

Released at Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:28:20 GMT by pcisar
Includes files: kinterbasdb-3.2.1.win32-py2.5.exe (290320 bytes, 0 downloads to date), kinterbasdb-3.2.1.win32-py2.4.exe (289647 bytes, 0 downloads to date), kinterbasdb-3.2.1.tar.gz (338879 bytes, 0 downloads to date)
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FDD - 500 attendees (and growing)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:03:15 -0700

Today, Firebird Developers Day conference passed the “line” of 500 confirmed attendees, and the numbers is still growing every day. Online subscriptions go up to 10/July.

Left outter joins and “where” joins confusion

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:03:15 -0700

If you still have the habit of joining tables in the “where clause”, instead of using explicit join sintax (SQL92), you prabably would like to check this post describing possible wrong result sets due to bad understanding on how it works.

The Darwin Race of Languages

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:08:42 -0700

The Darwin Race of Languages is a “competition” started by Bart Roozendaal to check what programming language is better. It seems that they will choose a kind of application that need to be developed, and participants will use the language of their choice to code it, and in the end, they will choose which one [...]

flamerobin.org

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:56:25 -0700

New release of Jaybird

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:05:18 -0700

A new release of Jaybird is available - 2.1.5. It fixes a bug introduced in 2.1.4 when events did not work on Linux. Please upgrade your installations to this one.

firebird-jca-jdbc-driver 2.1.5-release-jdk13 released (Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:19 GMT)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:01:49 -0700

Released at Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:19 GMT by rrokytskyy
Includes files: Jaybird-2.1.5JDK_1.3.zip (2979382 bytes, 0 downloads to date)
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firebird-jca-jdbc-driver 2.1.5-release-jdk14 released (Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:22 GMT)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:01:49 -0700

Released at Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:22 GMT by rrokytskyy
Includes files: Jaybird-2.1.5JDK_1.4.zip (3103241 bytes, 0 downloads to date)
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firebird-jca-jdbc-driver 2.1.5-release-jdk15 released (Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:26 GMT)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:01:49 -0700

Released at Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:26 GMT by rrokytskyy
Includes files: Jaybird-2.1.5JDK_1.5.zip (3082256 bytes, 0 downloads to date)
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firebird-jca-jdbc-driver 2.1.5-release-jdk16 released (Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:29 GMT)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:01:49 -0700

Released at Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:29 GMT by rrokytskyy
Includes files: Jaybird-2.1.5JDK_1.6.zip (3171372 bytes, 0 downloads to date)
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firebird-jca-jdbc-driver 2.1.5-release-src released (Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:33 GMT)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:01:48 -0700

Released at Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:33 GMT by rrokytskyy
Includes files: Jaybird-2.1.5-src.zip (6047595 bytes, 0 downloads to date)
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Database .NET 2.1.3098 Released

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:03:39 -0700

Database .NET is an intuitive database management tool for multi-database. Features: Automatically: Create/Shrink/Protect database Syntax Highlighting Service Manager Code Generation SQL Example Manager SQL Query Batch Export to CSV/XML/TXT Print Query Results … and much more. Supports: MS Access 97-2003 (*.mdb;*.*) MS Access 2007 (*.accdb) MS Excel 97-2003 (*.xls) MS Excel 2007 (*.xlsx) Firebird (*.gdb;*.fdb) MySQL SQL Server SQL Server CE (*.sdf) SQLite (*.db;*.db3;*.sqlite) PostgreSQL Oracle All-In-One, Simple and Standalone (no install). Based on .NET Framework 2.0, Compatible with [...]

ubuntu popularity contest

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:02:28 -0700

You can vote firebird2 packages by installing popularity-contest package and then submit your votes here http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ where you can see the results , also you can enable it from System -> Administration -> Software Sources -> Submit Statistical information

Don’t silently turn your outer joins into inner joins

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:01:21 -0700

Surprised by outer joins not returning the expected results? Looks like they behave like an inner join? You are probably messing with the join and the where clause

The neglected driver …

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:01:21 -0700

Looks like the Firebird team is going to put some effort on the ODBC driver, which has been lying there abandoned for a few years (last activity report is of 2006) despite it’s usefulness in windows desktop apps (at least for me ;))

PHP Firebird driver á la ActiveRecord

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:00:04 -0700

A very useful Firebird driver for performing most CRUD database operations in PHP.

Registration for the 6th Firebird Intl Conference is open!

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:00:03 -0700

The conference will be in Bergamo (Italy), 25-26-27/September. You can get all information here. Register sooner to get earlybird discount.

FB and IBO mentioned in blog post

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:02:42 -0700

If I end up going with Firebird, then I’ll most likely be using the IBObjects components. I’ve used these before at a customer’s site and have been impressed at the genuine speed that results. See full post here.

Installing different versions of the Firebird in the same Operating System

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:19:22 -0700

Here is the translated version of the original article where is described how to run firebird 2.1 and older versions in the same time

eZ Publish, Joomla will add native support for Firebird in the future

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:19:21 -0700

If you look at Drupal and also Typo3, they already have multi database support. Joomla! is currently at the beginning of developing a new Database Abstraction Layer . This new layer should also make it possible for developers to build more support for other database platforms.The new Database Abstraction Layer is not expected to be included [...]

Firebird 1.5 SQL Temporary Reference Update

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:18:50 -0700

This guide documents the changes made in Firebird 1.0 and 1.5 SQL since the fork from the open-sourced InterBase 6.0 codebase. Here is the Pual Vinkenoog’s announcement on firebird-docs list Just uploaded a Firebird 1.5 SQL Update Reference to this temporary location: http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/manual/temp/ You [...]

Firebird 2.1.1 Release Candidate is now officially announced

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:19:54 -0700

The Firebird Team is pleased to make a release candidate available for field testing the first V.2.1.x patch release on Windows, Linux and MacOSX Intel platforms. Please test it hard and report any problems to the firebird-devel list.

IBProvider releases have appeared

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:18:37 -0700

IBProvider releases have appeared. OCTETS character set and binary data support in IBProvider v3 was implemented. Fixed bug occuring when accessing to VARCHAR columns with large size via MS SQL Linked server. 64 bits values in metadata schematics are now supported. Data type converter was tested by 43000 unit tests. Read details on the Interbase/Firebird OLE DB driver site.

Open Source Census

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:18:25 -0700

There is a project going on to measure the usage of Open Source software all over the world. People just download an utility who scan their machines, detects and reports the use of any recognized Open Source package (anonimously, of course). Right now, Firebird is not one of the recognized packages. This can be fixed [...]

Jaybird 2.1.4 bugfix release

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:17:59 -0700

Jaybird team is pleased to announce the Jaybird 2.1.4 bugfix release which contains a fix to make events run with Firebird 2.1. Also some some fixes to the test cases were made, since a bug with a constant order for table reservation in TPB was fixed in FB 2.1 (CORE-1416).