Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
FB 2.1 Week of Year Feature
With new functions in FB 2.1 extracting week of year is supported (based on ISO-8601). So this past article is more simple to do with the new syntax :
extract(week from some_date_field)
DBX4 Driver for Firebird Database
Ubuntu 8.04 released with Firebird+Flamerobin included
Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 is released with firebird2.0 and flamerobin included in their repository
Here is an easy guide for installing firebird2.0 and then follow the flamerobin 0.8.6 guide
ps: soon there will be an firebird2.1 package for ubuntu created (it wasn’t possible to include it in this short period of time after release)
mnoGoSearch 3.3.7 released – with firebird speed improvements
Version 3.3.7 of mnoGoSearch, a web site search engine, has been announced. This release adds new features, and includes performance improvements and bug fixes. See the Change Log for more information.
Red Database 2.1 beta 3 is available for download – source code included
I would like to announce that we made Red Database Beta 3 available for
download from our website at:
http://www.red-soft.biz/en/download_2.1
Its general features include:
– Java UDFs and procedures
– Full-text search functionality based on Lucene library
– native stored procedures debugger Read more
Firebird 2.1 for Gentoo released
Release Notes for Firebird 2.5 Alpha 1
Here are the New features and issues solved in the next Firebird 2.5 Alpha release
Liberado Firebird 2.1
jachguate‘s blog in Spanish about new features introduced in Firebird 2.1
Infovark is using firebird
We’ve been using Firebird as infovark’s SQL database for several months now.