Firebird News

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).

Fresh KInterbasDb 3.2.1 Patch Release

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:04:21 -0700

Firebird Project releases a patch release for KInterbasDB 3.2 that fixes some issues with transaction parameters and services when working with Firebird 2.1.

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 [...]

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 has some funny ways of handling passwords

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:03:52 -0700

Firebird has some funny ways of handling passwords. The maximum length of passwords that is evaluated is 8 characters. Every character after the 8th is silently ignored. That’s especially funny because the ‘default’ password for a Firebird-installation is ‘masterkey’, which has 9 characters. You can, however, successfully log in to freshly installed Firebird-servers providing the [...]

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 [...]