17th FDD – record of donations!

The 17th FDD in Brazil, organised by Carlos Cantu, were a huge success! It was convened online for the first time, due to Covid-19. There were 720 attendees, and the traditional collection of donations netted a record R$ 8.163,35 after tax, for Firebird development.

The list of donors and their donations is at https://www.firebirddevelopersday.com.br/fdd/17fdd_donors.html.

Source: firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebird-developer-days-convened-online-in-2020

Firebird 3 driver for Python 3 Release 0.8.0

The driver is no longer beta, and is now considered as stable for Firebird 3.0 (support for Firebird 4 is still evolving till final release).

ChangeLog:

Documentation, both in code and separate (especially Usage Guide).

Added support for new FB4 data types in ARRAY fields.

Refactoring in driver hooks.

New Cursor.call_procedure() method.

Refactoring and fixes in Server and its services.

17º Firebird Developers Day

Only for Brazilians and Portuguese speakers…

Está no ar o site do 17º Firebird Developers Day, que dessa vez excepcionalmente será realizado on-line, de 21 a 25 de setembro, uma palestra por noite.

Essa é uma edição “best of“, ou seja, o tema das palestras foi definido por votação dos melhores temas das edições anteriores. As palestras serão ao vivo, com direito à perguntas e respostas.

A inscrição é apenas R$ 50, e todos os inscritos ganharão uma cópia do eBook Guia de Migração para o Firebird 3! Fora isso, poderão também aproveitar as promoções dos patrocinadores, além de participar do tradicional sorteio de licenças.

Visite o site do evento e faça sua inscrição para aproveitar o preço promocional. O download do ebook é liberado assim que o pagamento é reportado pelo banco (dentro de 48h).

Ajude a divulgar o evento compartilhando essa publicação em grupos de bancos de dados e de programação.

Get USD 5 OFF in the Migration Guide to FB 3

Planning to move to Firebird 3 and still didn’t buy the Migration Guide to Firebird 3?

Here is your chance to buy the eBook with USD 5 discount, so the final price will be USD 11! The promotion is valid only for the eBook version (PDF) and will be active up to Aug, 21.

Hurry up, save some money and many hours of headache during your migration process!

Enter the coupon code FB3OFF5 in the order form to get your discount!

Obs: Most of the information in this guide can also be applied when moving to Firebird 4.

New version of RedExpert 2020.08 has been released

New version of RedExpert 2020.08 has been released.

The main changes:

  • the launch of the program and the search for Java have been completely redesigned. Now if Java is not found, it is suggested to specify the path manually or download Java automatically;
  • fixed display of system objects (generators, domains and functions that are not defined by the user are not displayed in the main nodes);
  • fixed execution of the script containing “execute block”;
  • fixed editing procedure with declare variables block;
  • removed the type of object while copying the name;
  • fixed display of tables if “RDB $ RELATION_TYPE IS NULL”;
  • fixed bugs with autoincrement while creating and editing tables;
  • other minor fixes.

Download and install the new version.

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