ANN: FB TraceManager V2.5.2 available

Upscene Productions is proud to announce FB TraceManager V2.5.2, a professional environment to monitor, profile, trace and optimize Firebird databases.

More information on the new release is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20120416

This release fixes a critical stability issue and includes various minor bugfixes and adds experimental Firebird 3 trace support.

There are also the following new screencasts available:
What’s new in V2.5
What’s new in V2.0
FREE Lite Edition

More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm

Searching for Firebird programmer

I got this in my email box, maybe some of you would be interested:

Dear Carlos,
I came across your name asking developers to send details of large companies who use firebird databases. I am actually an end-user who has the open mind to want a firebird database but cannot find anyone who does this programming. I am based in the UK and am told to ‘steer away’ from firebird as it is not proven, etc. etc.
It really is quite disappointing and seems that there are many others like myself who would like to have an alternative but cannot find a developer. So I am the horse looking for water to drink – but there is no water…not like you describe leading the client to the water but not getting them to drink.
Any suggestions?
JT <tse.tse@ntlworld.com>
PS: It is weird that in the actual days, with so many great case studies published, there are still people who thinks FB is a “toy”.

Node.js Firebird driver 0.0.9 is released (tagged)

Here is the download page and you can check the Commit History for interesting changes (new features)and fixes (memory leaks , utf-8 char fields encoding handling).

  • Fix for slda improper init
  • Fixed memory leak for situation when single connection was used several times for several async queries, it also was making server to eat memory
  • Fix to stream for char fields in UTF encoding
  • Added async transaction start
  • One fix to allow run execute procedure (and tests were added)

ANN: FB TraceManager V2.5.1 + New Screencasts available

Upscene Productions is proud to announce V2.5.1 of FB TraceManager, a professional environment to monitor, profile, trace and optimize Firebird databases.

More information on the new release is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20120313

This release extends the per-database monitoring capabilities with database statistics (data/index pages and record version information) monitoring. Adds support for ODS 11.1 (Firebird 2.1) monitoring tables and several other improvements and fixes. In combination with the Trace API, this is a powerful and integrated toolset to optimize and tune your Firebird server, database and client application even further.

There are also the following new screencasts available:
What’s new in V2.5
What’s new in V2.0
FREE Lite Edition

More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm

Firebird Embedded and LibreOffice is the killer combination to scale from a single file application to a client/server approach

Quote of the day is via this thread on Firebird Java Group :

It would be good if Jaybird 2.3 could be used with embedded and
LibreOffice because the feature set in Firebird is obviously much, much greater
than HSQL or the proposed SQLite replacement.

The ability to create a zeroconf, transportable data file is of interest to me
(along with using iReport to generate printouts from that file).

OT: Personally I think that Jaybird / Firebird / Firebird embedded is the way to
go for LibreOffice instead of the very limited SQLite. The ability to upscale
from a single file application to a client/server one is a killer
.

Update:Firebird Driver and Embedded version merged into LibreOffice git master

New Book On Qt And Firebird Database Available In EPUB Format

Logikal Solutions is proud to announce “The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases” has been released in EPUB format as part of “The Minimum You Need to Know” book series. Currently it is available at Barnes & Nobel as well as Kobo. It should also be available shortly at the Sony eBook store.

Barnes & Nobel

Kobo

This book shows the nitty-gritty of developing with Qt using PostgreSQL, Firebird, and SQLite databases. It also shows the developer how to create BOTH console and GUI Qt applications. Readers are shown how to do development with Qt Designer, Qt Creator, QDevelop, Monkey Studio, and Eclipse under KUbuntu. Like most of the titles in this series this book attempts to teach by repeatedly developing the same application with each new tool set so developers who understand one or only “some” of a given tool set can quickly come up to speed by looking at the differences each tool forces on the application. 

Qt is an amazing application framework currently owned and supported by Nokia. While there are many books available discussing various aspects of the GUI, most give at most a single chapter to database access. This book is designed to cover that topic in depth. The vast majority of applications written today will need to communicate with a database in some fashion, even if it is just to store user entered data locally. Currently there are no books on the market providing any significant quantity of information about how to do it are more importantly just how different your application will be for each database engine.

“The Minimum You Need to Know” is an award winning technical book series written by Roland Hughes and published by Logikal Solutions. Please visit The Minimum You Need to Know for information about other titles in this technical book series.

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