March 2009 - Firebird News

Database Workbench 3.3 Pro released

March 31, 2009 Martijn Tonies Leave a comment

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
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Firebird on Glassfish

March 30, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Ok, so after a few hours of “pulling my hair out” (I don’t actually have any…), I’ve finally managed to get Glassfish to work with Firebird.

Firebird changelog feed (rss/json) and yahoo pipes

March 28, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird Database Changelog without the daily build_no.h changes http://xrl.us/bemsvb

I have used the Fisheye Rss feed

HowTo connect to Firebird from Delphi for Php

March 28, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Here is the tutorial

Firebird is supported by PHP, and Delphi for PHP can support it, but it can’t out of the box.
What is not well documented about a Delphi for PHP to Firebird connection, is the fact that names of libraries can overlap in WIndows.
In this first post, I’d put a foreword to clarify situation.

Benerator – test data generator

March 27, 2009 mbabuskov Leave a comment

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