Category: Developer News

SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Data Wizard 7.8, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management.

New version features:

• ASP.NET Generator Wizard is implemented.
• New Shell Application with Ribbon toolbars (like Office 2007) and more.
• Unicode/UTF-8 support.
• PHP Generator: now it is possible to create a lookup menu for a column using a custom value list (not only foreign keys).
• Data Pump: now optimized for Microsoft.Jet engine.
• Data Import: the speed of loading of Excel files was significantly increased.
• All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made.

There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc), see http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4457/

SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.7, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development.

New version features:

• Unicode/UTF-8 data management.
• Since this version Firebird Maestro works fine with embedded Firebird server.
• Transaction Browser is implemented (Firebird 2.1). This feature is very useful for DBAs who want to monitor the users’ activity.
• Support of database triggers from Firebird 2.1 is added to the software.
• Database Designer: a possibility of locking/unlocking diagram objects is added.
• It is now possible to execute SQL scripts after connect and before disconnect to/from a database.

There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4443/

Storm is an object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python developed at Canonical. The project has been in development for more than a year for use in Canonical projects such as [WWW] Launchpad, and has recently been released as an open-source product.
Who knows maybe an firebird port will be made for it