FB/IB page in About
About.com has a page with many links of information and/or tools related to Firebird and InterBase. You can check it here.
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guides to Firebird 3, 4 and 5. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Python Papers
As an Associate Member of the Firebird Foundation and Associate Editor of The Python Papers, I warmly broadcast the launch of a new periodical, The Python Papers.
It can be found at http://www.pythonpapers.org and is archived at http://archive.pythonpapers.org/. The Python Papers is published under the Creative Commons Licence 2.5 with non-commercial, attribution, and share-alike conditions. However, individual authors retains the right to re-licence their work.
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MySQL, InterBase, FireBird, SQL Server: Prices and Licences
A different moral? FireBird needs some marketing to let people know… it is the only really open source DB.
Check this interesting post on Marco Cantu blog.
Mandriva and IBPhoenix are now partners
Read the full announcement here. Thanks to collaboration between IBPhoenix and Mandriva, Mandriva Linux is now the distribution offering the best integrated support for Firebird 2.0.
New revision of “Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes” is available
A new version of the document (1.1) is available here. It contains some links updates, new information, etc. Expect translations of the new version to come soon.
More conference pictures
I created a new web album in google with all my pictures from the latest conference. You can check it here.
Firebird Metadata Synchronizer v1.0
Tech Solutions are proud to announce the availability of Firebird Metadata
Synchronizer (FMS), a Windows utility that allows software developers & DBAs working with the open source Firebird SQL database, a simple and inexpensive way to migrate database changes from server to server. Retailing at $US39.00, FMS is an inexpensive solution to the problem of revising system DDL metadata.
Read more here.
Firebird 2.0 in Computerworld
ComputerWorld announced in its site the release of Firebird 2.0.
xStarter FBIB
xStarter FBIB is a job scheduler with special features for Firebird. It allow not only perform backup/restore or maintenance procedures but also execute SQL scripts at specified time.
You can read more about it here.
FSQL V1.5.6
Ivan Prenosil just released FSQL V1.5.6. It can be considered an “enhanced” version of isql, with features likes importing data from csv, showing active connections, inserting file contents into blob, making a backup from sql script, colour output highlighting, etc…