Month: December 2006
firebird 2.0 in the freebsd ports repository
the freshports page is here.
What is a port?
A port is the term used to describe a collection of files which makes it extremely easy to install an application. As it says in the FreeBSD Ports description: Installing an application is as simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing make in the port directory.
News from Dmitry Yemanov
Query cancelation
Implementation of the statement cancellation feature has been committed into the version 2.1. It works via the monitoring tables – you just need to issue the DELETE command against the MON$STATEMENTS table (there’s no API implementation yet). It could be done by the application itself (using a secondary attachment) or by a server administrator. Examples:
DELETE FROM MON$STATEMENTS
WHERE MON$STATEMENT_ID = ?
or
DELETE FROM MON$STATEMENTS
WHERE MON$ATTACHMENT_ID = ? AND MON$STATEMENT_STATE = 1 -- active
The feature works for both SS and CS engines. The client application receives the GDS error code isc_cancelled.
Trusted authentication on Windows
Ability to authenticate Firebird users through a Windows domain is now available in the source tree and will be included into the v2.1 release. An up-to-date client library is required in order to use this feature. CURRENT_USER represents a logged in Windows domain user in this case. It’s expected that firebird.conf will introduce an option allowing you to choose between native-only, trusted-only and mixed authentication modes.
Installing dnfBB version 1.2
To install dnfBB version 1.2 please follow these steps.
Firebird Maestro 6.12 released
SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 6.12, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development.
New version features tabbed document interface, procedure parameters history, OLAP viewer, improved BLOB Viewer/Editor, large scripts processing and some other useful things. Read full press release.
Firebird Maestro developed by SQL Maestro Group, which also offers complete database admin and SQL development tools for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and MaxDB.
Firebird database, VS 2005 and Vista
Peter’s Gekko wrote :”Just like last time getting the Firebird database working on my new machine was a long way of trial and error.”
SR UDF Library – Christmas Offer
65% discount from the full price!
SR UDF Library version (2.0.2.0) – a user defined function library (161 UDFs) for InterBase and Firebird on the Windows platform. This version of SR UDF Library supports the following standard routins: Math, File,DateTime, String, Regional, Hash in addition to Conversion routins for converting different measurement units!
firebird on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Beta)
There is an thread with running firebird with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
firebird mentioned on fujitsu services page
they offer System consulting and integration services for various products including firebird
IBProvider Free Edition
We believe in IBProvider v3 quality and robustness. And we want to make a gift for all Interbase and Firebird Community users. New IBProvider v3 Free Edition is absolutely free of charge and most powerful version based on the commercial core of IBProvider v3. We are sure the community will appreciate our gift, since previous free IBProvider v1.5 (Dec 2001) still counts about a thousand downloads a month.
IBProvider Professional Edition
Professional developer kit for Interbase and Firebird. Allows to creare powerful software in differents IDE’s and programming languages which support OLE DB, ADO or ADO .Net technology. Can be using as MS SQL Linked Server, in the OLAP cubes and in the reporting engines like Crystal Reports.
Read more about differences between IBProvider editions: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/documentation/differences_between_versions.html
Download latest version here: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/trial.html
Merkulov Andrew.