Year: 2013

Firebird Code Factory 13.9 released

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Firebird Code Factory SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Code Factory 13.9, a powerful Windows GUI utility for querying Firebird databases and managing the data.

New version comes with keyboard interactive SSH authentication, updated Script Runner, redesigned start page, improved SQL editors and data grids, as well as with many other useful things.

There are also other useful things as well as versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc). Read full press release.

GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 14

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New GSOC update for the previous week with
current status of the firebird-sdbc driver :

Progress this week:
- Some dbexception cleanup.
- Fixed ColumnLocate::findColumn implementations (for all 
  db drivers) and api definition.
- Fixed index rebuilding.
- Tried to experiment with different ICU versions, but haven't 
  managed to actually produce any errors when switching ICU 
  version 
- Fixed formatting of integers as a currency, integers now
  show as a number and not currency by default.
- Fixed segfault when setting Null as first value in 
  PreparedStatement.
- Reintroduce statement specific Mutexes (instead of a
  connection-wide Mutex).
- Implemented simple firebird unit tests to see that we can 
  really transfer a .fdb between machines with different 
  OS/CPU/bit-ness.
- Some generic cleanups.
- Tried to create a hsqldb cppunit-test.

SOCI -The C++ Database Access Library 3.2.2 released with Firebird fixes

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From: Mateusz Loskot 
I'm very pleased to announce release of SOCI 3.2.2
which is mainly a bugfix release with some improvements and features too.

The source packages are available for download from SF.net:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/soci/files/soci/soci-3.2.2/

or directly from the Git repository in 3.2.2 tag:

https://github.com/SOCI/soci/tree/3.2.2

By the way, all packages and tags are also available from
automatically generated releases at GitHub (new feature):

https://github.com/SOCI/soci/releases

Documentation for the current 3.2 line is available at

http://soci.sourceforge.net/doc.html

Version 3.2.2 differs from 3.2.1 in the following ways:
...
- Firebird
-- Enable memory cleanup to avoid leaks after binding
-- Added missing C++ library headers
-- Added get_affected_rows() support for bulk operations
-- Fixed compilation with VS2008
-- Fixed building tests with the backend built as DLL.

 

GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 13

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New GSOC update for the previous week with
current status of the firebird-sdbc driver :
Progress this week:
– Made libatomic-ops buildable meaning that we should now be able to build embedded firebird on non-X86 systems too
– Added rebuilding of indices to deal with the icu collation issues.
– Implemented a simple .odb loading test (in gerrit atm.) that also
tests that the embedded firebird .fdb can be connected to.
– Implemented Index retrieval and dropping
– More fixes to do with the firebird temporary and lock directories
– Some coverity fixes
– Started working on foreign key retrieval

Code commits can be reviewed in the LibreOffice git repository

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.12

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The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.12.

This is a bug fix release, built with the current Free Pasca Compiler 2.6.2.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.0_fixes_branch#Fixes_for_1.0.12_.28Merged.29
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2

The release is available for download at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the “Lazarus 1.0.12″ directory.

Minimum requirements:
Windows:       98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
Mac OS X:      10.5, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit

GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 12

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New GSOC update for the previous week:
Current status of the firebird-sdbc driver is:

– (Var)Char, Numeric and Date/Time types all supported. (No support for blob/clob/array/etc. yet.)
– Data Editing in the GUI works.
– Data Insertion works.
– Table and Column definition/manipulation is mostly complete, there might still be a few minor-to-major issues, indexes aren’t supported at all.
– Usable on Linux, Mac, Windows (thanks to tml for fixing the fbembed
library / loading on Mac).

ps: you can check also the previous updates #11,#10,#9

Editline is updated in Firebird 3.0 isql console client with UTF-8 support

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Editline is used in Firebird isql console client , the last version is already imported in firebird 3.0

https://github.com/asfernandes/firebird/tree/master/extern/editline

So it brings UTF-8 support at last in the console with a few patches

http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-362

Thanks to Frank Schlottmann-Gödde for his efforts

ps:It’s history in Firebird tree is a little bit convoluted http://firebird.1100200.n4.nabble.com/firebird-devel-Editline-digging-into-not-just-cmdline-history-was-qmtesting-td1124010.html

Firebird 2013 Tour

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Firebird Project is glad to announce Firebird 2013 Tour – series of seminars around the world, devoted to Firebird, with members of Firebird Project as speakers.

The first seminar will be in Siegburg (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), November 22, 2013.

Firebird 2013 Tour will be devoted to all aspects of transactions, from the basic idea, to the internal implementation, best practices and guidance how to effectively use transactions in the applications, and, of course, performance analysis of transactions and related areas.

List of topics to be covered:

  • Transactions from the beginning: isolation levels and specific Firebird parameters (no_rec_version, table locking, read/write, wait/nowait), examples of their usage
  • How to use effectively isolation levels and parameters in multi-user applications, typical errors in transactions management
  • Internal implementation of transactions in Firebird, including versioning, locking and multi-generation mechanism
  • Garbage, sweep, auto-sweep: what are they and how to make them work for you and not against you
  • Effective management of transactions in various development tools (Delphi, Java, .NET, etc)
  • Transactions monitoring: transaction markers, MON$ tables, Trace API, third-party tools, how to find bottlenecks in transaction management and optimize database performance with monitoring
  • Best practices of transaction management, special approaches to optimize transaction in closed sourced applications.
  • Overview of Firebird 3.0 features

The detailed schedule of talks will be published later.

Organizer and general sponsor of Firebird 2013 Tour is IBSurgeon Ltd.

Details

Seminar will take place in http://www.kranzparkhotel.de/, Siegburg, Germany, November 22, 2013, from 09-00 to 18-00. It’s ~1hour from Cologne and 1h15min from Frankfurt (by train).

Attendee’s fees

Attendee’s fee includes seminar attendance, coffee-breaks, lunch and beverages. Room is not included.

Early bird registration is available till September 30, 2013.

Early bird registration fee – EUR 89, for group of 3+ attendees – EUR 79/person.

Regular price registration (after September 30, 2013) is EUR 109, for groups  3+ 99 eur/person.

There are limited seats, so please take your chance and register as soon as possible.

Please feel free to ask any questions to organizer’s email firebird2013@ib-aid.com

Original announcement: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-tour-2013/

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