2014 - Page 21 of 22 - Firebird News

Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL Release 0.2.1 is out

January 24, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

New version 0.2.1 is released in the unstable area and here is the ChangeLog:

Make extension compatible with PostgreSQL 9.2
Fix some regressions
Implement basic connection caching
Fix implicit cast handling

Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL Release 0.1.6 is out

January 22, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

New version 0.1.6 is released in the unstable area and here is the ChangeLog:

Push down bitwise operators << and >> (FB 2.1 and later)
Push down two-argument form of SUBSTRING()
Push down CONCAT()
Push down POSITION() / STRPOS()
Don’t check for mutable functions – we are explicitly whitelisting functions which can be pushed down (need to double-check if that’s a valid approach)

Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

January 22, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions (must be registered user with at least one Linux related post)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2013-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-109/database-of-the-year-4175488206/

Spread the word on all forums and Firebird communities

Lazarus Release Candidate 2 of 1.2

January 22, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

The Lazarus team would like to announce the second Release Candidate for the upcoming Version 1.2.

Please try the New Firebird components TFBAdmin and TFBEventMonitor

Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL Release 0.1.5 is out

January 21, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

New version 0.1.5 is released in the unstable area and here is the ChangeLog:

Add basic Firebird version detection to ensure that only functions available on the remote Firebird server are actually pushed down
Push down functions COALESCE(), NULLIF()
Only push down SUBSTRING() if 2nd and 3rd arguments are INTs

Also fbsql is progressing (a command-line client for Firebird inspired by PostgreSQL’s psql)

Database .NET 10.3 released

January 19, 2014 fishcodelib Leave a comment

Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.
You can Browse objects, Design tables, Edit rows, Export data and Run queries with a consistent interface.

Full support for Firebird database
Updated to FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll 4.1.0
Support for Firebird 1.5.x
Support for Firebird Trace
Fixed date/time/timestamp dbtypes in Table Designer for Firebird
New Connection Manager
New Object Navigator
Added Script All Table Data (INSERTs)
Improved AutoComplete and IntelliSense
Improved Query Builder
Improved Search Objects
Improved Database Diagram
Improved Object Browser
…and more.

You’re welcome to download the Database .NET right now at:
http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm
All-In-One, Free, Simple and Standalone (No Installation).
Supported Platforms: Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/2012/8.1 (x86/x64)

IBProvider 3.19. Changes in metadata schemas

January 18, 2014 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

Every year on January 18 we have a small celebration – IBProvider’s birthday.

This year it turned 14.

We thank all our users for using the provider in your projects.

We promise that we will continue to improve IBProvider till it completely supersedes Firebird and Interbase 🙂

Read more about the new features in Firebird and Interbase driver >>>

FBScanner 3.6.1 is released

January 16, 2014 IBSurgeon News Leave a comment

New version of FBScanner (3.6.1) is released. FBScanner is an unique tool to trace and audit Firebird (1.0 – 2.5) and InterBase (4.0 – XE3) SQL traffic (connections, transactions, queries), it’s very efficient tool for performance optimization and SQL bug tracking.

FBScanner works like a proxy, and enables transparent data capture and analysis:

FBScanner is Firebird performance optimization tool

FBScanner can be used for the following tasks:

Find queries with bad performance (i.e., slow queries with high prepare and execute times, queries with bad plans)
Track transactions usage
Real-time view of connections, users and transactions (connections can be killed)
Retrospective analysis of SQL traffic
and more – see presentation here.

FBScanner has 2 licensing options:

Per server – FBScanner can be used on the single server or computer to track Firebird traffic.
Unlimited ISV subscription – FBScanner can be installed on any number of computers during the 1 year for use with the specific software application from the single independent software vendor (ISV).

All users of FBScanner 3 already have FBScanner 3.6.1 in IBSurgeon Deploy Center.

User of FBScanner 2.x can upgrade to FBScanner 3.6.1 with 50% discount – please contact upgrade@ib-aid.com

Download now:

Demo version of FBScanner can be found here:

FBScanner Demo version

Please look at the FBScanner User Guide to get more information about its capabilities:

FBScanner User Guide

DWScript now has database support dwsDatabase

January 16, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

DWScript now has database support classes built-in, these are based on a thin, interface-based layer, and can be used Delphi-side as well to get automatic memory management for simple DB access.

Here is a simple example for webservice

Generate PDF output from Firebird SQL data

January 9, 2014 mariuz Leave a comment

Here is a demo program that shows how to generate PDF output from a Firebird database, using xtopdf PDF creation toolkit and the fbd Python driver for Firebird.

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