September 2007


Ladies, gentlemen,

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next major
version of the popular database development tool:

Database Workbench Pro 3.0

Order now and get a 20% introductory discount!

New Feature Highlights

  • Conceptual and Physical Data Model Diagramming
  • ADO/ODBC Explorer (run queries against any ADO/ODBC datasource)
  • “Workspace” Feature for increased usability
  • Increased Oracle support (object types, collection types, object tables and more)
  • Increased MySQL support (events, spatial extensions and more)
  • Oracle Stored Code Debugger
  • Code Editor enhancements (parameter insight, parenthesis highlighting)
  • File Compare Tool

… and much more …

Download a trial at: http://www.upscene.com/download.htm
What’s new?: http://www.upscene.com/products/dbw/whatsnew30.htm
Full list of features and fixes: http://www.upscene.com/news/20070924.htm

Order now and get a 20% introductory discount!

This release includes integrations with Jira, OnTime, Buzilla, and Mantis. A new query system is included.

Two new blog posts about Firebird System Tables, Here are the part two and three

Firebird Maestro SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.9, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development.

New version features:

  • Starting with this version you can reorder columns for existing tables. It is also possible to reorder parameters for a stored procedure.
  • Now it is possible to cancel a long running query execution (Firebird 2.1) and data fetching (all Firebird versions).
  • The SQL Formatter for DML statements (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) is fulfilled.
  • The UTF8 character set is added to the Create Database Wizard.
  • BLOB Viewer: it is now possible to save all BLOBs from a table to a given directory.
  • Data Import Wizard: the speed of loading of Excel files has been significantly increased.

There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4671/

Last chance: Early bird discount ends today Sep 20!

Time is running out to save money through early bird registration to attend 5th International Firebird Database Conference 2007 in Hamburg, Germany. Attendees who are members of the Firebird Foundation can subscribe using the early bird discount prices until oct 10.

Conference Program and Registration Form: http://www.firebird-conference.com/fbconf2007.zip

For those who are curious to see the trophies we won in the recent Sourceforge.net Community Choice awards, there’s a photo to view. The gizmos make horrible noises. The engraved marble plinths weigh 2 Kgs each…

The awards party was an blast  , And i liked This “screensaver” video that played on monitors during the party.

Arkady Shejn have built Fedora Core 6 Firebird 2.0.1 RPMs for i386 and x86_64.
Testers are welcome.

I am getting the following controller exception when trying to access
my newly installed Firebird DB  (to replace MySQL) from my app.

I want to share about Firebird System Tables, they are tables that side on every FB database that consist of metadata of user tables (table that you created), many question about this and also many purpose to know about this.

Thanks to the nominations from the mojoPortal community, we are a finalist in the 2007 Open Source CMS Awards in the category “Best Other Open Source CMS”! (other means non-PHP)
[ED:Is worth voting mojo because you can use it with firebird so please help the project, also if you find others that works with firebird (plone for example) please vote them too ]

See the full list of finalists here:

http://www.packtpub.com/2007-open-source-cms-award-finalists

Its very exciting to be among the finalists and its all thanks to your nominations!

Now we need your vote again since the first round of voting was just nominations, so please go and vote for mojoPortal, it would be wonderful to actually win in this category!

Voting ends October 26, 2007

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