Flamerobin New snapshot 0.9.3.2210.* builds
New snapshot builds (SVN revision 2210) for Windows 32 and 64 bits are
available on SF.net.
Feedback on field and text delimiter settings for save grid data as CSV
file command would be especially welcome.
Thanks
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Michael Hieke
InfoQ: Q&A with Jiri Cincura of the Firebird Database Project about the ADO.NET provider , ORM ,EF …
Jiri Cincura was recently interviewed for InfoQ article – Q&A with Jiri Cincura of the Firebird Database Project. We touched Firebird, ADO.NET, O/RMs, Entity Framework etc. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
What version of Firebird do you use? Poll time
There is a new poll on linkedin about the Firebird versions
Firebird speed RUBY vs DELPHI vs .NET
From http://ramsees.blogspot.com:
I did some comparitions selecting 1000, 10000 and 100000 with Ruby Fb gem, Delphi Fibplus and the FB .NET driver, here is the result:
| ROWS | RUBY | DELPHI | .NET |
| 1000 | 0.12 | 0.47 | 0.09 |
| 10000 | 0.94 | 0.48 | 0.53 |
| 100000 | 10.95 | 3.79 | 5.53 |
The results are on milliseconds, the table is from a production database with 40 fields and about 3 million records, as you can see, native code is still the king, .NET result are quite good, but Ruby is quite dissapointing handling lots of data.
DBInfo – new IBSurgeon product
IBSurgeon DBInfo is designed to visualize internal structure’s statistics, so administrators or developers can view how much data, index, blob or other kind of information your Firebird or InterBase database stores.
DBInfo is a free tool, download it now: http://ib-aid.com/products/firebird_interbase/monitoring/dbinfo

More information at IBSurgeon official site.
The trunk of django-firebird was updated with support for django 1.3
The svn trunk of django-firebird was updated with support for django 1.3
Please, feel free to try. Any feedback is welcome.
ANN: django firebird with south support
Maxi Robaina wrote on django-firebird list
I’ve a first attempt for support firebird into django-south.
You can give a try at https://bitbucket.org/maxirobaina/south
Feedback is wellcome.
Delphi and Firebird: Marco Cantu’s webinar is now uploaded to Youtube channel
Video uploaded to FirebirdSQL channel on Youtube
Marco Cantu speaks about best practices and approaches to develop Firebird and Delphi applications with dbExpress framework.
IBReplicator V4.0.8 has been released.
For more information read the release notes







