Firebird-Python and Character set issues – From Bug/Post of the day dept
After a long interruption I’m back at Firebird and kinterbasdb and I’m
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Month: October 2008
Firebird (server) is back in business with Entity Framework
Via Jiri’s Blog
As you (maybe) know, there was a bug in left outer join so the model generation/update etc. in Entity Framework and similar tools was failing. The bug is now gone. Well, it’s not in some oficial release, but it’s in sources. If you want to test it, grab sources and build or grab this build (only SuperServer executable). Also take into accout, that it’s build from current sources and can be very unstable.
ANN: New Freeware utility “Firebird Transaction Statistic Logger”
There is a new freeware utility called “Firebird Transaction Statistic Logger” which allows to log the transaction counters (OIT, OAT, OST, Next transaction) of a Firebird database either via a GUI driven application with charting facility or a Windows service. Read more about that on Thomas Steinmaurer’s blog.
Mono 2.0 has been released – with Firebird .Net Provider support
Mono’s 2.0 grand release has finally arrived.
See detailed release notes covering both the 2.0 launch and the changes since Mono 1.9.
Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.0 for your platform.
Also you must use Firebird DotNet Provider 2.5 with Firebird 2.1 .
Here are my notes on Ubuntu Intrepid
In the new edition of IBProvider Professional 7 codepages support was implemented, bugs were fixed, BLOB-fields access and memory management was improved
IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3
- Support of the following codepages added: DOS858, TIS620, BIG5, KSC_5601, GB_2312, SJIS_0208, EUCJ_0208;
- Bug in the errors handling for OUT-parameters of query was fixed;
- BLOB-fields access was improved;
- Memory management was improved;
IBProvider v2/v1
- BLOB-fields access was improved;
- Memory management was improved;
Frank Ingermann’s session (from firebird conference) available as PDF
Hi people,
Fabio has sent me the PDF version of Frank Ingermann’s conference session. You can find it at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Writing-Firebird–Docs-Intro.pdf
or via the Firebird Documentation Index –> Manuals for Firebird Docwriters
New version of FirebirdConfig
The new version of FirebirdConfig (0.2) has interesting features, including incremental search, you can see more information on the website, as well the video of its new features.
5th FDD interviews for TV
Hardsoft TV was covering the last Firebird Developers Day in Brazil, and now interviews started to be put online in their site. You can check the first one here (it is in portuguese, but you can check the images of the local, attendees, speakers, etc). BTW, the link only works with Internet Explorer.
Update: The video is now available on Youtube: