Advanced Data Generator 3 released

adg3_64x64 Upscene Productions announces the release of:
Advanced Data Generator 3″

A fast test-data generator tool that comes with a library
of real-life data, can generate data to your database,
SQL script or CSV files, many filling options, presets and
much more.

If you develop database applications, you need data for testing purposes!

New feature highlights:

  • Unicode support in an all new fresh user interface
  • Ability to use external databases as the source for data
  • New and improved data libraries for real life like data
  • New template types
  • Much improved documentation with comprehensive “How to”-section

This product comes in four versions:

  • Pro: ADO and ODBC connectivity
  • InterBase Edition
  • Firebird Edition
  • MySQL Edition

For more information and a trial download, see the news @ Upscene Productions, pricing information is available.

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Windows Azure Web Sites and Firebird

Jiří Činčura wrote about his experience with Firebird Embedded and Azure Websites

To sum up. Firebird Embedded works well in Windows Azure Websites. If you need fully featured SQL database for zero extra-money with option to go hassle-free to full server if the need comes, it’s a way to go.

10th FDD – Subscriptions are open!

The site of the Firebird Developers Day’s 10th edition is now up and running. Interested people can already subscribe on-line to the conference.Spread the news and come to comemorate the 10th anniversary of the biggest Firebird Conference in the world.

PS: FDD is a Brazilian conference for the Portuguese speakers community.

Jaybird 2.2.3 (Firebird JDBC) released

The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.3.

See http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/jdbc-driver/ for the downloadlinks.

The release is also available on maven:
<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird-jdkXX</artifactId>
<version>2.2.3</version>

The artifactId depends on your target Java version: jaybird-jdk15, jaybird-jdk16 or jaybird-jdk17.

The following has been changed or fixed in Jaybird 2.2.3:

  • Fixed incorrect synchronization in native and embedded protocol (JNI) implementation for iscBlobInfo and iscSeekBlob (JDBC-300)
  • Fixed holdable ResultSet is closed on auto-commit (JDBC-304, JDBC-305)
  • Fixed table names missing or padded with spaces in Database view of IntelliJ IDEA (JDBC-308, IDEA-100786)
  • Fixed incorrect JDBC minor version reported under Java 7; this resulted in an incorrect column name (for Java 7) in the metadata of DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(…) (JDBC-309)
  • Added IOException to cause of GDSException with error 335544721; “Unable to complete network request to host “”” for further investigation (JDBC-306)

More details are available in the Jaybird 2.2.3 releasenotes.