July 2008
Monthly Archive
Posted by Andrew Merkulov on 30 Jul 2008 5:36 pm. Filed under
Tools & Products releases.
IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3 [build 3.0.0.4963]
- NUMERIC-types support was improved.
- Disabled metadata cache mode performance was increased in 2.5 times.
- Metadata schemes were updated. Among them in schemes TABLE_INFO and TABLES classification of external (EXTERNAL TABLE) and temporary tables (GLOBAL TEMPORARY PRESERVE/DELETE) was added starting from Firebird 2.1 and Interbase 7.5.
- Correct processing of active transactions in the connection pool.
New build IBProvider v1.9.9.2547 and IBProvider v2.6.3.2547
- BLOB-columns metadata description bug was fixed.
- Correct processing of active transactions in the connection pool.
Details on the Firebird driver site.
Posted by mariuz on 30 Jul 2008 10:13 am. Filed under
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Google led me to a comparison sheet about PostgreSQL and Firebird by AMSoftwareDesign, as it looks a bit outdated I decided to add some infos about the latest Firebird release, see it in action
Posted by mariuz on 30 Jul 2008 10:10 am. Filed under
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After a long struggle on Devshed forums I decided to try on my own, after all I know Firebird and don’t see why it and ColdFusion can’t play nice together … infact they did, and easily.
Posted by mariuz on 30 Jul 2008 10:03 am. Filed under
General news.
Firebird 2.1 added the long-awaited monitoring tables. By querying special system tables starting with MON$, you get a snapshot of the current activities in your database like who is connected to your database, which transactions and statements are running and so on. You even can cancel a running query by executing a DELETE statement on MON$STATEMENTS. Firebird 2.5 will also allow you to cancel an entire attachment via a DELETE on MON$ATTACHMENTS.
Read More on Thomas Steinmaurer’s Blog
Posted by Cantu on 30 Jul 2008 9:55 am. Filed under
Tools & Products releases.
The winner of the “Darwin Race of Languages” competition is Werewolf, who submited a nive GUI frontend for gbak (Windows and Linux), made in Delphi/Kylix. You can check more information and download it here.
Posted by mariuz on 30 Jul 2008 9:54 am. Filed under
Tools & Products releases.
VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching.
Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks so you can arrange your data in a simple and logical way.
New features:
- Unicode support: now the program should be able to handle correctly filenames containing foreign characters. This will require a conversion of older catalogs: the conversion will happen automatically as soon a a catalog is opened.
- Added support for localization. At the moment only an Italian version is available: translators are welcome.
- Added the ability to backup and restore a catalog.
- Added the ability to export data to a CSV file.
- Changed the program’s icons to avoid licensing problems with the Tango icons. It looks like the Creative Commons license is not compatible with the GPL. The current icons are distributed under the GPL.
VVV is available for the Linux, OSX and Windows operating systems.
VVV does not change your operating system in any way: everything is contained in the installation folder so you can be sure that it will not cause problems to other applications or to the operating system itself.
More information at http://vvvapp.sourceforge.net/
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Posted by Cantu on 28 Jul 2008 8:04 am. Filed under
Events/Conferences.
The timetable for the International Firebird Conference is now available in the official site. Register this week and get earlybird discount!
Posted by Cantu on 28 Jul 2008 8:01 am. Filed under
Who is using FB?.
For those tired of maintaining separate code bases for Web and desktop applications, Servoy offers a way to consolidate those code bases and cut development time in half.
Servoy apps can access many different databases, including Firebird.
More information here.
Posted by Cantu on 27 Jul 2008 8:08 pm. Filed under
Tools & Products releases.
A very nice GUI frontend to configure Firebird.conf file can be found here. It runs on Windows, and the author is waiting for your comments.
Posted by mariuz on 23 Jul 2008 12:18 pm. Filed under
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Other than CREATE USER something really valuable has been added, the ability to query other databases.
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