Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
Firebird Maestro 7.9 released
| SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.9, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
New version features:
- Starting with this version you can reorder columns for existing tables. It is also possible to reorder parameters for a stored procedure.
- Now it is possible to cancel a long running query execution (Firebird 2.1) and data fetching (all Firebird versions).
- The SQL Formatter for DML statements (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) is fulfilled.
- The UTF8 character set is added to the Create Database Wizard.
- BLOB Viewer: it is now possible to save all BLOBs from a table to a given directory.
- Data Import Wizard: the speed of loading of Excel files has been significantly increased.
There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4671/
Firebird Debian page updated
Reasonable effort is made keeping this page up to date, but due to the quasi-static nature of the information contained herein, it may get forgotten every now and then
One of the more interesting news is the firebird repository move to git
Firebird Data Wizard 7.8 released
| 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/
mojoportal New Setup System landed in svn trunk
Heads up to anyone working with the sourcecode from svn trunk. I’ve just merged the new Setup system. The new system provides a lot more helpful information during setup and is designed such that if an error happens, the process can continue if the cause of the error is corrected. Read more
DDEX, Vista (64-bit), Firebird, Visual Studio 2005
Installing Firebird DDEX provider into Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista (64-bit). Nothing brand new, but can help begginers when trying to use Firebird in .NET and in VS.
Firebird Maestro 7.7 released
| 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/
waiting for the firebird storm
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
Linux Gains Windows Muscle with LAMP/WAMP/FLAP/FWAP stack
One of the most important recent developments in the open source world is the rise of integrated open source enterprise stacks. Many run on Windows, too, so they offer the Microsoft IT community a range of interesting — and free — alternatives to traditional solutions.
[ED: no wonder that InfoWorld is covering a survey of North American developers that claims that Linux is gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows fell 11 percent over the last year]
FbConsole 0.7.0 released
FbConsole 0.7.0 is an IronPython and Windows Forms console for working with the Firebird database (ED:inspired by flamerobin)
