News from the Firebird developers.
you can read the article translated here
La gestion des transactions dans Firebird
Présentation du concept de transaction et du modèle transactionnel de Firebird, comparaison par rapport à d’autres SGBD. Avantages et inconvénients, bonnes pratiques de conception et de programmation.
Via http://firebird-fr.eu.org/doku.php?id=wiki:rendez-vous2007
Carlos Guzmán Álvarez wrote on dotnetprovider mailing list:
We are going to need to implement the version 11 of the Firebird Protocol (in .net provider) and review the buffer handling code to make better checks on
buffer lengths and server responses.
We have been working on the installers for the platforms supported. We tried to make installation even easier! Read more
You can read the Changelog and release information about the new MDB2 release.Package is maintained by Lorenzo Alberton
Martijn wrote on his blog: For those of you who don’t know yet, or aren’t following the Firebird-support list, Helen Borrie just posted a small part of the excellent “The Firebird Book”, the date/time literals accepted by Firebird: Firebird Date/Time Literals
Keep that one for future reference.
The Docbuilding Howto and Docwriting Guide have been updated. The most
important modifications are: Read more
Are you curious to see all the new internal functions that will be available in the shortcoming FB 2.1? If so, take a look here. Most of the functions were ported from Yaffil to FB 2.1. It seems that the porting job was finished by Adriano a few days ago. That’s really good news 🙂
I’m pleased to annouce that libgda/libgnomedb version 3.0.0 have been released
This is the first major stable release since the previous 1.2.x
versions, in which of the code has been reworked, many new features
have been added and the dependencies have been lowered to a minimum;
for more information, please visit http://www.gnome-db.org. Read more
Mono 1.2.4 preview sources, packages, and installers are available at:
http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/preview/download-preview/
The beginnings of the release notes for 1.2.4 are available at:
