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Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Firebird Transaction Simulator
The transaction simulator uses either scripts or random commands to simulate the Firebird database versioning system and the result of the simulator are checked with Firebird’s outputs. Read committed and Snapshot transactions are presented. Some remarks about long transactions and Firebird slowdown caused by transactions
Firebird Node.js Example with AngularJS
For the moment only the code , soon we will have also a blogpost about it
This is a complete demonstration of express.io, passport, passport.socketio, firebird sql and angular.
GSOC 2013: LibreOffice Firebird SQL Connector Integration Status
You can follow the GSOC 2013 LibreOffice Firebird connector blog with it’s initial post and follow up
Also on LibreOffice devel list there is a LibreOffice Firebird integration thread.
The git log is hosted on feature/firebird-sdbc branch in libo tree.
Update: A weekly status was posted for previous week
Firebird as backend in LibreOffice status
GlassFish and Firebird JDBC driver Jaybird
This page describes how to configure GlassFish for use with Jaybird. These instructions are based on GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.2.2 and Jaybird 2.2.3.
Django Firebird current status
Maximiliano Robaina announced django firebird driver status related to django 1.6 :
I’m pleased to announce that django-firebird with django 1.6 support is underway.
Django 1.6 is still in alpha state, so django-firebird 1.6 too.
Then, you can see the current status at the master branch . The master branch has the “in develop” version. If you need stable support (django 1.5) take a look at stable/1.5.x
What are the changes in database field?
The main changes is on transaction management and including BinaryField
Django 1.6 release notes
Windows Azure Web Sites and Firebird
Jiří Činčura wrote about his experience with Firebird Embedded and Azure Websites
To sum up. Firebird Embedded works well in Windows Azure Websites. If you need fully featured SQL database for zero extra-money with option to go hassle-free to full server if the need comes, it’s a way to go.
Jaybird 2.2.3 (Firebird JDBC) released
The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.3.
See http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/jdbc-driver/ for the downloadlinks.
The release is also available on maven:
<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird-jdkXX</artifactId>
<version>2.2.3</version>
The artifactId depends on your target Java version: jaybird-jdk15, jaybird-jdk16 or jaybird-jdk17.
The following has been changed or fixed in Jaybird 2.2.3:
- Fixed incorrect synchronization in native and embedded protocol (JNI) implementation for iscBlobInfo and iscSeekBlob (JDBC-300)
- Fixed holdable ResultSet is closed on auto-commit (JDBC-304, JDBC-305)
- Fixed table names missing or padded with spaces in Database view of IntelliJ IDEA (JDBC-308, IDEA-100786)
- Fixed incorrect JDBC minor version reported under Java 7; this resulted in an incorrect column name (for Java 7) in the metadata of DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(…) (JDBC-309)
- Added IOException to cause of GDSException with error 335544721; “Unable to complete network request to host “”” for further investigation (JDBC-306)
More details are available in the Jaybird 2.2.3 releasenotes.
isql documentation update
The manual for isql has been hugely updated, tidied up and is now online at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/html/isql.html for the html and at http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/Firebird-isql.pdf for the pdf version.If you get an older version that document 0.5 then the cache needs to be flushed.
It’s still not fully complete, but it’s a lot further down the line than before.
Cheers,
Norm.—
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
Thank you Norman, for the excellent work!