Posted by mariuz on 31 Aug 2006 7:26 am. Filed under
Firebird in the press.
We have many hits from LiveDistro.org (saw it on google analytics stats)
Here is the article they link-ed to us
Posted by Cantu on 30 Aug 2006 9:47 pm. Filed under
General news.
This site has some examples of connection strings for many databases, including Firebird and InterBase.
Posted by mariuz on 30 Aug 2006 4:02 am. Filed under
Technical Articles ,
Worth Reading.
Blog of the day about Design Paterns , Firebird Anti- Paterns
All the time I run across classes with names like UserUtility, PartUtility, SectionUtility. Every one of them is filled with barely related, mostly static, methods for doing all kinds of stuff with and to a thier related objects (User object, Part object, or Section object)
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Posted by mariuz on 29 Aug 2006 3:49 am. Filed under
Tools & Products releases ,
Worth Reading.
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
Posted by mariuz on 28 Aug 2006 12:18 pm. Filed under
Tools & Products releases.
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 the cache folder.
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Posted by mariuz on 28 Aug 2006 11:49 am. Filed under
General news.
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 Studio SDK!
Posted by Dan on the FirebirdDotNet Blog
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Posted by mariuz on 28 Aug 2006 11:35 am. Filed under
Developer News.
Here is the Firebird’s Gentoo page (compiled with gcc4.1)
and there is more info in the Changelog
Posted by mariuz on 28 Aug 2006 11:11 am. Filed under
Tools & Products releases ,
Who is using FB?.
OroLogic uses firebird in their product OroTimesheet (Thanks for the tip pabloj)
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 is free, only OroTimesheet 5 licenses must be bought) without forgetting that Firebird can be installed on the platform of your choice (Windows, Linux, Solaris and more)
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Posted by Sergey Smagin on 28 Aug 2006 9:19 am. Filed under
Developer News ,
General news ,
Tools & Products releases.
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Active Database Software announces today the release of Active Query Builder 1.6, a suite of robust and feature-rich .NET-ready ActiveX and VCL components, which allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries via the intuitive visual interface.
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Active Query Builder features:
- Full support for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, MS Access and many other SQL dialects;
- Powerful SQL parser that correctly handles SQL queries containing correlated sub-queries, multiple nested joins and other fine points of SQL syntax;
- Visual building of queries with unions and sub-queries;
- Building SQL queries with objects from several databases;
- Metadata pre-filtration, fine tuning of metadata information used to build queries;
- Working in Offline mode using metadata information saved in an XML file;
- Flexible SQL builder to format resulting SQL code the way you like it;
- Fine parsing of SQL queries with parameters, retrieving list of parameters;
- Support for Unicode strings;
- Ability to build, analyze and modify queries in run-time;
- Rich set of properties and events to control behavior of the component.
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Posted by Cantu on 27 Aug 2006 10:55 am. Filed under
Tools & Products releases.
Pikauba Software has started shipping DBDocumentor 4.20. The resulting output from DBDocumentor contains fully cross-referenced and hyperlinked documentation of not only the SQL schema and database procedures, but also the Reporting Services queries that access them.
Pikauba namespace extensions permit the Reporting Services queries to be fully annotated as to input parameter function and the data contained in output filed columns.
DBDocumentor supports the Microsoft TSQL, Firebird SQL and Sybase ASA SQL dialects.