Year: 2012
Hopper 1.0.3 released – stored procedure and trigger debugger
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Upscene Productions announces a new release of: “Hopper – a Stored Code Debugger” |
Hopper is a Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger, available for Firebird, InterBase and MySQL.
For more information and a trial download, see the news @ Upscene Productions, pricing information is available.
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ANN: FB TraceManager V2.5.4 available (Trace SWEEP)
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce FB TraceManager V2.5.4, a professional environment to monitor, profile, trace and optimize Firebird databases. |
More information on the new release is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20120731b
This release adds support for the new Firebird 2.5.2 sweep tracing capabilities via the Trace API across the entire product (trace configuration “log_sweep”, parser, trace data storage etc.).
A ~ 4min. screencast is available here:
http://ts.upscene.com/download/demos/fbtm/fbtm_sweep_tracing.htm
More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm
Incorrectly linked libjaybird22.so and libjaybird22_64.so with Jaybird 2.2.0 on Linux (x86-32 and x86-64)
The libjaybird22.so (Linux x86) and libjaybird22_64.so (Linux x64)
included in the Jaybird 2.2.0 download are incorrectly linked (libstdc++
and libdl are missing from the symbol table).
This manifests itself when the native or embedded protocol is used
(jdbc:firebirdsql:native or jdbc:firebirdsql:embedded). The resulting
error is UnsatisfiedLinkError occurs in libjaybird22_x64.so undefined
symbol: _ZTVN10__cxxabiv117__class_type_infoE
This error does not occur on all systems (eg my Ubuntu 11.10 systems
with the OpenJDK-6 and OpenJDK-7 from the Ubuntu-repository don’t have
this error).
Correctly linked versions of libjaybird are attached to
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/JDBC-259
The next release of Jaybird will include correctly linked versions of
this library (release date is not yet known).
How to implement FROM_UNIXTIME() like function in Firebird
Here is the example explained in Spanish :
select dateadd(second, 1255033470, cast(’01/01/1970 00:00:00.0000′ as timestamp)) from rdb$database;
9th Firebird Developers Day (report)
The report (with pictures) of the 9th edition of the Firebird Developers Day is now available (in English and Portuguese). Thanks for all attendees, speakers and sponsors! See you in next year, celebrating 10 years of the conference!
Test your knowledge about Firebird
DotNet Provider is Dropping (pure) .NET 2.0 support and Switching to C# 5 compiler
More than R$ 4.000 donated for protocol performance enhancement
Many attendees of the 9th Firebird Developers Day donated money to sponsor the enhancement of the Firebird protocol, known to be “slow” in high latency networks (ie: internet). This is the #1 voted feature in the Firebird tracker! The development will be done by Dmitry Yemanov, chief of the Firebird development team, and available in Firebird 3 (with chances of being partially backported to Firebird 2.5.x). A list with the names of all donors and values can be found here.
What is “the” Firebird package to use today? FDB? pyFirebirdSQL? kInterbasDB?
Short answer is FDB
The difference between FDB and kInterbasDB is explained here
It’s old and unmaintained , all effort is on FDB driver and it is backward compatible with kInterbasDB
Now between FDB and FirebirdSQL , from what i know pyFirebirdSQL is pure python so it can work without any other so/dll installed and it can be used for example in places where there is no Firebird client installed (think of android python script)