Author: Cantu

I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!

FB/Java plugin

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I’m pleased to release first test version of FB/Java, compatible with Firebird 3.0.0.

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/fbjava/releases

FB/Java is an External Engine plugin for Firebird that makes Firebird capable of run functions, procedures and triggers made in the Java platform.

It complements Jaybird making it interface with Firebird engine and handling the infrastructure necessary to support user routines.

It also has a client utility with functions to install and uninstall the plugin in a database and that users may use to deploy and undeploy Java classes and resources stored in JAR files to a database.

Bugs should be filed in the github project.

This test version uses a modified snapshot of Jaybird 3.0.
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International Firebird Conference – Call for papers

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Conference to be held at the Barcelo Praha Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic, on the 7th and 8th of October 2016.

The Firebird Foundation is seeking submissions from Firebird users and developers on the theme of “Firebird in the Enterprise”. A session submission should have a title and at least 200 words outlining the main points of your talk.

A session will last for 50 minutes plus 10 minutes for turnaround and questions. If your talk takes more than a single session, then it should span multiple sessions. If your session is especially popular you may be asked to repeat it.

You can submit a session draft directly to conf@firebirdsql.org
If you have any questions also please contact conf@firebirdsql.org

Submissions must be made by the deadline of Midnight July 1st, 2016. Once received there will be a review of the submitted papers and authors will then be informed which papers have been accepted or rejected.

Read more.

13th Firebird Developers Day

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The Conference is for Portuguese speakers…

As inscrições para a 13a. edição do Firebird Developers Day já podem ser feitas pelo site oficial do evento.

O FDD é a maior conferência sobre Firebird no mundo, e será realizada no dia 09/Julho, em Piracicaba – SP. Com o recente lançamento do Firebird 3, teremos diversas palestras sobre novas funcionalidades dessa versão, mas também abordaremos temas de interesse aplicáveis à qualquer versão.

Firebird 3 is released!

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Press Release: English | Russian | Brazilian Portuguese

The primary goals for Firebird 3.0 were to unify the server architecture and to improve support for SMP and multiple-core hardware platforms. Parallel objectives were to improve threading of engine processes and the options for sharing page cache across thread and connection boundaries.

Alongside these aims came new strategies to improve performance, query optimization, monitoring and scalability and to address the demand for more security options. A number of popular features were introduced into the SQL language, including the long-awaited support for the Boolean data type and the associated logical predications.

Documentation: Release Notes (PDF available), Quick Start Guide (PDF available) and other manuals.

Download it here.

A “Migration Guide to Firebird 3” eBook, written by Carlos H. Cantu, is also available.

“Guia de migração para o Firebird 3” is released

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FB 3 GuideThe Portuguese version of my new eBook, Guia de migração para o Firebird 3 (Migration guide to Firebird 3) was just released! The book has tips and explanations to make the life of anyone who wishes to move to Firebird 3 easier.

An English version of the guide will be available in the following weeks at Amazon, both in paperback and digital formats. This is my third book devoted to Firebird, and the first one to be published also in English.

Brazilians can buy the guide right now in the FireBase on-line store.

Carlos H. Cantu

ODBC driver updated

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Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.4 was released today, with the following changes:

  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-79, “Problem with case sensitivity for table/relations name in SET TRANSACTION RESERVING clause”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-174, “SIGSEGV received in libOdbcFb.so: memcpy in JString constructor incorrect input parameter”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-184, “CHAR(X) fields have invalid length if using UTF8 charset and collations”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-190, “ODBC function SQLGetInfo fails if SQL_KEYWORDS InfoType is requested”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-191, “ODBC driver doesn’t show error message for Test connection button in DSN dialog. Improvements in Windows DSN dialog interface”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-192, “Incorrect conversion of time values when retrieved as string”
  • correct alignment issues for Sun Solaris and HPUX – updated Linux makefile to support both iODBC and unixODBC, thanks to Paul Beach

You can download it at sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-ODBC-driver/2.0.4-Release/

 

Firebird 3.0 RC2 is released

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Firebird Project announces the second Release Candidate of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.

This Release Candidate demonstrates the complete set of features and improvements developed for the new release. Release Candidates are generally considered stable enough and may be recommended for testing in “almost-production” environments. Please report about any found bugs to the bugtracker.
Please read the Release Notes carefully before installing and testing this Release Candidate.
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