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RED EXPERT 2024.07 HAS BEEN RELEASED

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New version of Red Expert 2024.07 is available.

Improved:

  1. Application interface
    • Default themes (light and dark)
    • Application toolbar
    • Application menu
    • Query Editor toolbar
    • Query Editor popup menu
    • Connections tree
    • Settings menu
    • About panel
    • Procedures, Functions and Jobs editing panel
    • Changelog panel (release notes panel)
    • Drivers panel
    • Feedback panel
  2. ER-diagram tools
    • Color differentiation of tables in the ERD editor
    • Reverse engineering
    • Text blocks with ability to set background color
    • Undo/Redo operation
    • Added display of unique fields status (UQ)
    • Display table and field comments
    • Deleting tables can now be done with DELETE key 
    • Ability to stretch the size of tables with the mouse
    • Ability to switch between color and B&W lines 
    • Ability to select several tables and move them at the same time
    • Fixed scrolling by mouse wheel (SHIFT + wheel scrolling = horizontal scrolling)
    • Sorting by tables relationships
    • Ability to select the type of lines
  3. The execute button in the query editor can now:
    • Execute only the selected script
    • Execute everything if nothing is selected

Added:

  1. Ability to display column folders, constraints, indexes and triggers for tables in the connections tree
  2. Panel with basic information about connections
  3. Ability to create a bug report when an error occurs
  4. Ability to customize the Query Editor toolbar

Fixed:

  1. Switching between “Database Statistics” tabs
  2. Component layout on the column type selection panel
  3. Displaying domain fields

Removed:

  1. “Scratch pad” tool
  2. “Compare Data Types” tool
  3. “Execute Stored Objects” tool
  4. Ability to add custom SQL keywords

Download and install the new version.

New issue of EmberWings magazine published

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EmberWings is a quarterly PDF magazine about Firebird published by IBPhoenix.

Beyond technical articles, instructions and tips, it contains interviews with noteworthy individuals, an overview of Firebird’s development, information from the Firebird community, evaluations of compelling products, and a touch of thematic humor. All of this presented in a streamlined format with an aesthetically pleasing print-friendly layout.

The magazine is available in IBPhoenix store for free on a pay-what-you-want basis, with half of the proceeds going to the Firebird Foundation. The remaining half is used to finance the publication of the magazine.

This issue has 70 pages.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 / 5.0

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We are pleased to present the new version 2 of the Firebird Monitor with “Trace and Audit”.

We are currently offering a 10% discount on the purchase of a license until the end of June 2024. The coupon code is “Discount10”.

With “Trace and Audit”, they are able to record and evaluate every single event in the database.

Visit our homepage and download the demo version.

https://fbm.gksoft.ch

Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.38 is released

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Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.38 is released with quite a few changes if you compare with previous announcement , here are a few from the ChangeLog: add support for Firebird’s BOOLEAN data type , add support for disabling database-level triggers

Revision history for Perl extension DBD::Firebird.
1.38 [2024-05-21]
 * fix syntax error boolean fall back implementation (thanks to Robert Scheck)
 * add support for disabling database-level triggers (gh#53)
1.37 [2024-05-20]
 * fall back to sv_setiv when sv_setbool is not available (gh#58)
1.36 [2024-05-19]
 * fix problems with Perl before 5.36 and Firebird before 3.0
   (gh#56 and gh#57)
1.35 [2024-05-15]
 * ib2sql_type: ignore nullability bit
 * map Firebird's 64-bit integer type to SQL_BIGINT
 * add support for Firebird's BOOLEAN data type
 * fix a couple of compiler warnings

Release of IBProvider v5.37

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We are glad to present a new release of IBProvider — v5.37. This update contains a lot of internal changes and improvements. All the changes have been tested more than one time, so this release is ready for use in your projects. Please update your copy of IBProvider with this version. If you work with Firebird, please use «fb.direct» mode. Thanks.

https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_240518.html

Build of error message in built-in Firebird client

  • The current release of IBProvider adds the new initialization property ctype_system that allows to point a codepage of operation system where a connected database server is working. This information will help IBProvider process the DBMS system errors
  • Provider uses a connection charset for translating server error messages into UNICODE

Work with ICU

  • ICU 63.1 (FB4). A suppression of translation error between code pages is disabled now (FB:CORE-8108)
  • A processing of ucnv_open function return code is corrected

Common changes

  • vc16 binaries are compiled with C++20
  • vc15 binaries use a built-in thread pool based on the source code of the external thread pool of vc16/vc17 assemblies (source code unification)
  • The information content of the error message “unsupported database server version” is improved
  • The internal instrumental C++ library was refactored

With Best Regards, IBProvider Team.

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