Repairing broken Firebird database can be sometimes a bit difficult. The official tools (gfix and gbak) not always can help you so you will have to find ways to transfer data from broken database into another fresh and clean one.
There are some tools that can help you
Kinterbasdb 3.3.0 stable driver is included in Debian Squeeze (Testing) and Sid (Unstable)
Update : is now included in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
You can install it by a simple:
sudo apt-get install python-kinterbasdb
Igor Wawrzyniak wrote on his blog :
Don’t know if anyone ever needs such a crazy setup, but here it goes. I needed to run a software that requires Firebird 2.x. Nothing special, it’s available in my distribution (Ubuntu). I also had to run another app that needs Firebird 1.5. That’s where it started to get complicated
adrianosf twiteed
New blog post – Window Functions (part2) – cumulative aggregates – http://bit.ly/8sgfKU.
And here the Hebrew version of the article
You can download the new release here , read the release notes and see the nice screenshots there or follow sinatica on twitter for news related to Monitor
From the cool stuff department if found the Fisheye in the Jira tracker and it shows all bugs closed and related code changes (diffed)
Pavel Cisar wrote about his book
he JVCS team is happy to announce JEDI VCS 2.45 release, which is intended as a maintenance release for 2.40.
Most important changes from between 2.44 and 2.45 are:
Installer is available on sourceforge in the file section or follow this link:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jedivcs/files/2.45/
Please consider to help this project we always need helping hands for design, usablitity, programming, test, writing documentation.
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JVCS Team
