Interactive map of the 8th FDD attendees
Check out this interactive cool map to see from where the attendees of the 8th Firebird Developers Day are coming! Click the pizza graphs for more details.
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!
Firebird Randdom Data Generator
Firebird Randdom Data Generator For Linux and Windows designed with brand new concept is released for download/test.
- UPDATE OR INSERT INTO for Firebird 2.1+
- preview of the random test data
- use standard SQL script to generate random data
- create/save standard SQL script when generating/inserting random data
- save/load the SQL script/ embed user defined constants in the SQL script
- user defined starting number for the auto-incremental filed (min. 0),
- and can continue from the end number for next round of inserting.
- save/load the user defined random test data variable definition file.
- execute any standard SQL DDL script./enable/disable triggers.
- a data grid to review the populated data of the database.
- connect to Max. 4 database simultaneously
- populate multiple tables simultaneously in all connected databases (Max.4),
- keeping the Primary Key and Foreign Key relations within database,
- and across all the connected databases.
- insert user defined files as random test data to blob field, across all
- connected databases./embed fixed string into CHAR/VAR/BLOB data-type so that
- user may test ‘searching’ function in database.
- and much more..
Detailed tech-info
http://sites.google.com/site/firebirdarchitect/Home/guifa/randatagen
DownloadPage:
http://sites.google.com/site/firebirdarchitect/Home/freedownload
You are welcome to download and test
yours
Rock Stone
More than 400 subscribers to FDD!
Still more than one month for the Firebird Developers Day Conference, and we already have more than 400 subscriptions! More talks were added to to the grid in the last week, and more to come…
First phase of subscriptions to FDD is ending
Next Friday (10/June) is the end of the first phase of subscriptions for the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day. This is the phase with the cheapest values so, if you plan to participate, register now and save some money 😉
Firebird official newsletter
With the new official FB site, there is also a new option to allow people to subscribe to the official Firebird newsletter, and keep up to date with official news from the Firebird team. You can easily subscribe using the appropriate widget at the sidebar of the mainpage.
ADO.NET provider for Firebird – version 2.6.5
I’m proud to announce new version of ADO.NET provider for Firebird – 2.6.5. It’s half maintenance release, half new features.
You can find all bug fixes in tracker.
The new features include and improvements:
- Support for Trace API in Firebird 2.5
- Improvements in SQL generation for Entity Framework.
- Support for commands logging
- Slightly faster command execution of big queries.
- And a lot of small code improvement making it more stable…
You can download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.6.5/ or http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
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Jiri {x2} Cincura (x2develop.com founder)
http://blog.cincura.net/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com
Subscriptions opened for the 8th FDD
If you live in Brazil (or speak Portuguese), you can already subscribe to the 8th edition of the Firebird Developers Day conference. Subscribe now and pay less!
New Firebird site is almost ready
From Alexey Kovyazin:
Hello All,
Current data transfer from old site to the new site is almost complete. There are following areas in process:
- In Development – QA, Documentations for developers and .NET/Python drivers
- Old news – we will transfer old news for a while, now at 2009-2008 level.
- In About Firebird -> Features description, is in progress
- Grantee reports from old years
- Some minor content adjustments
Also we need to manage setup for daily snapshot uploads.
For regular site updates, like adding news or new FF members/sponsors, dedicated person from DQTeam will manage data adding/changing, until other site contributors will learn how to use CMS.
Actual transfer and redevelopment is almost over, now web-site redevelopment is about “intellectual” re-writing and new content creatiion.
Such process will be run constantly, and there will be always gap between ideal site and good-enough site.
I ask everyone to join the action now, look through the site thoroughly, and then provide actual help in order to jump over gap and switch to the new site in the next few days, and then go to the Phase 2 – improvements and extensions.
Old site will be live for a while, of course, so no content will be missed.Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
New poll is on-line. Please participate!
A new poll was just activated in FirebirdNews site. Please participate marking all the listed FB features that you use in production environments (multiple choice, so you can mark more than one answer).
The poll is shown at the sidebar of the mainpage. Spread it among the other Firebird users you may know.
Shared Page Cache is coming
One of the biggest tasks for the long-awaited Firebird 3.0 release is the Shared Page Cache feature. With this feature, Firebird will finally be able to fully benefit of SMP machines without having to work with individual cache for every connection.
Vlad Khorsun had been busy working on this, and judging by recent commits to SoundForge, the task is almost finished. Part of the code came from Vulcan. He hopes that people will help doing lots of tests when the first alpha release appears.
Note: Up to now, Shared Cache was only available in the SuperServer model, but SS is not optimized for SMP.