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).
June 2008
Monthly Archive
Darwin Race of Languages – now running!
Posted by Cantu on 30 Jun 2008 9:57 pm. Filed under General news.
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Fresh KInterbasDb 3.2.1 Patch Release
Posted by mariuz on 30 Jun 2008 10:00 am. Filed under Tools & Products releases.
| 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)
Posted by Cantu on 28 Jun 2008 2:14 pm. Filed under Events/Conferences.
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.
The Darwin Race of Languages
Posted by Cantu on 27 Jun 2008 2:34 pm. Filed under Worth Reading.
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 is better.
Anyway, the reason I’m posting this here is that among the topics being discussed to decide what kind of application will be developed, there is a Firebird tool.
New release of Jaybird
Posted by Cantu on 25 Jun 2008 2:49 pm. Filed under Tools & Products releases.
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
Posted by mariuz on 25 Jun 2008 6:26 am. Filed under Blogroll , General news , Who is using FB? , Worth Reading.
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 password ‘masterke’.
I’m working with Interbase and Firebird for more than four years and just now realized that when a co-worker at our company found it out while learning SQL.
The only program that I know that makes note of that is gsec, which prints a warning when setting the password to something longer than 8 characters.
http://daniel-albuschat.blogspot.com/2008/04/passwords-in-firebird.html
[ED:Daniel is working on webkit based browser named arrora ]
Database .NET 2.1.3098 Released
Posted by Oleg Deribas on 25 Jun 2008 12:42 am. Filed under Tools & Products releases.
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 .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5
Freeware.
ubuntu popularity contest
Posted by mariuz on 24 Jun 2008 5:49 am. Filed under General news.
You can vote firebird2 packages by installing popularity-contest package and then submit your votes here
The neglected driver …
Posted by mariuz on 24 Jun 2008 3:34 am. Filed under Blogroll.
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 
)
Don’t silently turn your outer joins into inner joins
Posted by mariuz on 24 Jun 2008 3:25 am. Filed under Blogroll.
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
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