The main Firebird site now has a page dedicated for listing future conferences and seminars. You can check it here.
August 2007
New conferences page
FirebirdClient v2.1.0 RC2 released
FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Release Candidate 2, ADO.NET Data Provider for
Microsoft .NET 2.0, and mono is available for download.
Download information can be found here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider
If all goes well in the next few weeks this well be the last release
candidate.
Firebird Multiple Vulnerabilities – Impact less critical
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Firebird, where some have unknown impact and others can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
Solution:
Update to version 2.0.2.
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=engine_202
gambas version 1.9.50 released
Gambas is a Basic interpreter and development environment with object extensions.
how install firebird 2.0.2 on Ubuntu dapper amd64
I have been a big fan of the Firebird database for a while now. It is a fast, reliable and maintenance free database which suits my needs. While it is very good at a couple of things, one of the features that I like is the fact that the entire database is stored in one file. In principle this is not important, but it is pretty clean and can be very useful.
Here you can read the rest of the guide on installing firebird 2.0.2 on ubuntu (dapper LTS version)
Firebird Data Wizard 7.8 released
| SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Data Wizard 7.8, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management. |
New version features:
- ASP.NET Generator Wizard is implemented.
- New Shell Application with Ribbon toolbars (like Office 2007) and more.
- Unicode/UTF-8 support.
- PHP Generator: now it is possible to create a lookup menu for a column using a custom value list (not only foreign keys).
- Data Pump: now optimized for Microsoft.Jet engine.
- Data Import: the speed of loading of Excel files was significantly increased.
- All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made.
There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc), see http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4457/
Looking for documentation?
Many people doesn’t know that Firebird official site has a lot of good articles/docs . You just need to dig a little bit, or go straight to this page. There you will find really cool articles and even old stuff, like IB 6 manuals, etc.
Running Firebird Embeded Database in .NET 2
Blog post shows how to use FB Embedded with Microsoft .NET 2.
Vanatec now supports FB 2.0
VANATEC – Object-Relational Mapping for .NET – now supports Firebird 2.0 with VS 2005.
EMS Data Export 3.0 released
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EMS Database Management Solutions is pleased to announce a new version of EMS Data Export 2007 for InterBase/Firebird version 3.0. EMS Data Export for InterBase/Firebird is a powerful program to export your data quickly from Interbase/Firebird databases to any of 19 available formats, including MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word (RTF), HTML, XML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, ODF and others. Data Export for InterBase/Firebird includes a wizard, which allows you to set export options for each table visually (destination filename, exported fields, data formats, and much more) and a command line utility to export data from tables and queries in one-touch.. You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/dataexport/download |












