Firebird related news
Today we moved FreeAdhocUDF to our new domain URL http://FreeAdhocUDF.org
For better support there is now a forum – direct URL http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/portal
There is also a new eMail help@freeadhocudf.org
The old URL and the old eMail adresses are still working in addition.
Christoph Theuring
Firebird and Interbase users implementing IBProvider drivers in their work last year were the first to take advantage of 64-bit applications. We have produced two more drivers in addition to 64-bit IBProvider v3: IBProvider v2 and IBProvider v1.
Due to 64-bit IBProvider v2 driver, 16 versions of Firebird and Interbase are now available for recording on 64-bit Windows OS via MS SQL Linked Server.
In addition to MS SQL Linked Server, there are many libraries and utilities that support updatable rowsets technology implemented only in IBProvider v2. One of such libraries is ADO library.
64-bit support in ADO and WHS allows to develop 64-bit automation scripts in VBScript language. For example:
With IBProvider drivers, writing of applications for Firebird and Interbase will become an easy and fascinating task.
We have made provision for the most difficult and will gladly share our technologies with you.
Release details on the ibprovider website: Firebird and Interbase driver
I used http://twitterfeed.com/ so the news feed from firebirdnews.org
now is going to these two users/groups that you can now follow
http://twitter.com/firebirdsql
http://identi.ca/group/firebird
hopefully we will have more results in the search area
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23firebird
ps: now we need to complete our moebius ring and follow the tweets on firebirdnews
Kits for Windows were all replaced today to include some components that were missing. The new kits have the infix “-1” or “_1” after the build number, e.g. “Firebird-2.5.0.23247_1_Win32_Beta1.exe”.
The aquisition was funded by Firebird Foundation. Firebird 2.1.3 will include cloud database features merged from NimbusDB, that was being developed by Jim Starkey.
In the other side, Jim will not join the project, and plans to spend the money buying a bigger boat and sail around the world for the next 5 years.
Signals shows that Firebird will be officially supported in the next version of Delphi. That’s what Anders Ohlsson says, as published in Marco Cantu blog:
He said that in the next version of Delphi they are looking forward to supporting (among other features) Firebird, touch-based UI (multi-platform touch engine), 64bit, and cloud computing.
Ladies, gentlemen,
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular database development tool: Database Workbench Pro 3.3
Changes Highlights in 3.3
– Better Stored Routine Debugger
– Ability to cancel import/export processes
– Monitoring GUI for Firebird 2.1
– Ability to cancel running queries in NexusDB, SQL Anywhere and Firebird 2.1
– Stored Routine debugger for SQL Anywhere
– Many new features, enhancements and bug fixes…
New Feature Highlights in 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0
Firebird Database Changelog without the daily build_no.h changes http://xrl.us/bemsvb
I have used the Fisheye Rss feed
While looking for some nice free test data generator for Firebird, I just stumbled into Benerator:
http://databene.org/databene-benerator/
benerator supports you in performing realistic load and performance tests. It is a framework for generating realistic and valid high-volume test data for your system under test (avoiding the Datalite anti-pattern)
Apparently, it works with Firebird:
http://databene.org/databene-benerator/faq/80-which-systems-does-benerator-support.html
