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News from the Firebird developers.
#AnyDAC Summer 2011 v 5.0.1 – #Delphi Components for Firebird, Interbase and more
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DA-SOFT Technologies announces the availability of AnyDAC for Delphi Summer 2011 release v 5.0.1.1845 – high-speed, Universal Data Access Components for Firebird, Interbase, SQLite, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS Access, IBM DB2, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Informix, Advantage, DbExpress, ODBC, that simplifies the task of building Embarcadero Delphi, C++Builder and Free Pascal Compiler database applications. |
AnyDAC for Delphi can be immediately downloaded from the download page.
What is new in v5.0.1 and what is AnyDAC ?
Mono Firebird Example updated for Mono 2.10.x release
I have updated the example and steps for mono 2.6/2.10
This version doesn’t include the recompile from scratch instructions for the driver (seems to work only from the windows side)
#Perl DBI driver for Firebird version 0.53 released
This fixes the build issue with perl 5.14.
Also i have tagged this with release 0.53 in git repository.
The cpan tar is be available here http://search.cpan.org/~mariuz/.
Mageia 1 a Firebird friendly new distribution
Mageia 1 is here : http://blog.mageia.org/en/
It is a community driven project and a Firebird friendly distribution with Firebird 2.5.0, PHP, PHP-pdo, Perl, Ruby drivers, Rails adapter, Flamerobin, and Python drivers (kinterbasdb and firebirdsql).
You can read more on Philippe Makowski’s blog
Language Reference Update 2.5 is ready
Hi all, After a huge delay of almost half a year, the Firebird 2.5 LangRef Update is finally ready!
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/reference_material/html/langrefupd25.html
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/reference_material/Firebird-2.5-LangRef-Update.pdf
I’ve asked Olga to add it to the doc index at http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals/ and post a news item.
Cheers,
Paul Vinkenoog
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ps:This one of the steps completed into attracting more developers on using Firebird and looking more modern and trendy
Also if you find some some pages from the old site that are not integrated yet , here is the url http://web.firebirdsql.org/
Status of PHP PDO_Firebird as of May 2011
Working both with Firebird SQL and PDO (but not yet at the same time) I am interested in the combination of both.
According to the documentation the extension is still in experimental status, but I was still curious about how far it has progressed. I decided to redo the experiments Lorenzo Alberton did in an article in 2006.
I performed these tests on PHP Version 5.3.6 with Firebird 2.5 on a Windows 7 machine.
Firebird nagios plugin written in #python
At work we use a lot of Firebird databases, and so far our system admins checked the availability of a Firebird Database by simply trying to connect via telnet to the port 3050 and see if they would get a response. With this kind of check you can’t really determine if the database is really up and running,
Therefore they asked me if I could write a plugin for nagios which would do a real check to ensure that the Databases are up and running, here is my result.
I chose to write the plugin in python, due it’s simplicity, and because I already wrote some script using the python-kinterbasdb extension
Improved command logging in ADO.NET provider for Firebird
Jiri wrote on his blog :
I recently improved the command logging in ADO.NET provider for Firebird. Let me start with little bit of history and then you’ll see the motivation and current improvements.