Hi,
I think might be helpful, today for a customer i do the Haversine formulas for Firebird Sql as a stored procedure.
This formula allow you to calculate the distance in meter between two WGS84 datum points(degree points of Earth).
You can call the procedure like this:
SELECT * FROM HAVERSINE_GENERIC(1, 45,474081, 9,179348, 45,456091, 9)
Dmitry Yemanov just confirmed that we can expect Firebird Release Candidate 2 to be released this month (January/16). The source code should be tagged in the next 2 weeks, and after that, it is just a matter of the documentation team finishing the release notes.
Of course, we could not miss the chance to post again the video of our preferred band (The Firebird Core-Developers band)! 🙂
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Band is:
Drums: Alex “Bonham” Peshkov
Guitar: Vlad “Vai” Khorsun
Guitar: Claudio “Friedman” Valderrama
Bass: Adriano “Harris” Fernandes
Vocal: Dmitry “Plant” Yemanov
Sorry, for now, this is only for Brazilians…
Entrou no ar a campanha (crowdfunding) para financiamento do meu novo livro: “Guia de Migração para o Firebird 3”. Todas as informações e o formulário para contribuir estão disponíveis em www.firebase.com.br/guiafb3.php
Esse é um projeto totalmente independente, e depende de você para se tornar realidade! Dependendo de como for essa experiência, ela servirá de base para lançamentos futuros.
Acesse o link, leia e contribua se julgar interessante.Carlos H. Cantu
The survey about Firebird 3 installer is closed, and results are now published (see below).
Thanks to everyone who participated and contributed with comments and ideas. I hope the result will help guiding the Project about what people expect/wants from the official installer 😉
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.5 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series.
This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download.
The Firebird Docs team is calling for people who are fluent in both English and Firebird’s SQL to assist with reviewing the English text of the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference manual. Of 10 chapters and 8 Appendices, 4.5 chapters are still untouched by reviewers. It would be good to have the reviewing done to coordinate with the forthcoming 2.5.5 release but correctness takes priority.
Still to do are: half of the DDL chapter, DML, PSQL, Functions and Variables, Transactions.
If you feel able to help with the review, please subscribe to the [firebird-docs] list here and make yourself and your preferred topics known.
The Firebird Project needs your opinion regarding some points in the Windows installer of the upcoming Firebird 3.0 final release. Please answer the survey available at https://eSurv.org?u=fb3installer based on your preferences.
Your answer can help to guide us in future enhancements. Survey will be online until 20-Nov-2015.
Firebird Project announces the first 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.
Download page:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-3-0-0-rc1/
Release Notes:
http://web.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/rlsnotes/Firebird-3.0.0_RC1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
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Dmitry Yemanov
Firebird 3 Release Candidate 1 is now tagged at Sourceforge. Next steps are: run the QA tests, prepare docs, and release it for testing.
