IBReplicator V4.0.8 has been released.
For more information read the release notes
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
FBClone version 2.1.4 is released (bugfix release)
FBClone v2.1.4 is released .This is a “bugfix release” (field “XxX” not found when used against case sensitive databases.)
FBClone can clone a Firebird database in one shot (instead of backup/restore cycle) and pump data from one database to another with the same structure, it handles metadata / data charset conversion and may be useful to ease database owner change process or to migrate a database between two different firebird versions (eg. 2.1 -> 1.5)
Using Embedded Firebird Database In .Net Projects
This post will show an example of using an embedded firebird database in .NET/C# projects.
The Perfect Database Server: Firebird 2.5.1 And FreeBSD 9
Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5.1 from FreeBSD 9 Ports and
creating your first test database; also we show you how to install
Flamerobin GUI (administration tool) and the PHP driver for it. This was tested on fresh FreeBSD 9 on a kvm-linux virtual machine.
Ricardo Obregón has updated the Firebird PHP 5.3.9 PDO extension in ArchLinux
You can check his tweet and the package page in ArchLinux:
Just updated #php-pdo-firebird package in #ArchLinux User Repo to connect to @FirebirdSQL from PHP 5.3.9. #Firebird http://t.co/XyeaRJE0
If you find this package useful and want to have it in the community repository, please Vote Up!
How to make an efficient check constraint for an e-mail field in Firebird
Question of the day on Stack Overflow is :
How to make an efficient check constraint for an e-mail field in Firebird (if field value not null)?
Value of particular column from all (some) tables in database dynamically
A question came to me last week. It was simple. Given the column I’d like to query all tables in database for this column (with some condition) and get values back. It was on Firebird so I jumped into system tables and generated query on the fly in execute block (aka anonymous stored procedure).
Read the rest on Jiri Cicura blog
RemObjects Article : Accessing Firebird Embedded databases from Data Abstract for .NET
This article shows how to use Data Abstract for .NET and Firebird Embedded together (and that it’s no effort at all to do this). All you need is to deploy the needed dll’s and to remember about the x86/x64 compatibility caveat.
PHP 5.3.9 released with relevant PDO Firebird changes
PHP 5.3.9 is released
Here are the relevant PDO Firebird changes included
PDO Firebird:
Fixed bug #48877 (“bindValue” and “bindParam” do not work for PDO Firebird).
Fixed bug #47415 (PDO_Firebird segfaults when passing lowercased column name to bindColumn).
Fixed bug #53280 (PDO_Firebird segfaults if query column count less than param count).
Firebird 2.5.2 svn snapshot 53775 landed in Debian testing
firebird2.5 (2.5.2~svn+53775.ds4-1) package is now in debian testing
You can check the list of bugs fixed for firebird 2.5.2 (not yet released) in the tracker
Here is the list of debian changes and fixes
* Snapshot from upstream’s 2.5 branch, revision 53775
* control: note -doc doesn’t contain release notes (LP#908963)
* control: change transitional 2.5-dev package to oldlibs/extra
* control: -common package is arch:all
the last arch-specific bit, ibutil was moved to -server-common
* -classic.init: provide a status option
* control: 2.5-dev, -classic-common: depend on the same (source) version of
-common-doc