Firebird related news
Over the years I have made sporadic attempts the wrap my head around programming using the .Net class library. I have used Delphi for over 10 years so maybe I am biased, but it seems as though many of the things that can be done with a couple of mouse clicks in Delphi require a lot more work to accomplish using .Net.
New release candidate of IBProvider Professional Edition has appeared. Is the modern driver for access to 16 versions of the Firebrd and Interbase servers.
IBProvider RC4 has the new option of stored procedures calling in Visual Studio 2008 style via ODBC escape sequences. This innovation allows to create queries and TableAdapters based on stored procedures.
Metadata schemes and IColumnRowset interface now consider user charset . This allows working with metadata in set encoding.
We are pleased to announce beta version of FBScanner Community Edition 2.5, free tool to monitor and manage connections and transactions.
With FBScanner Community Edition you can easily view instant snapshots of connections and SQL queries in Firebird 1.0-2.5 and InterBase 5.6-2009.
It is useful for administration tasks for Firebird Classic and SuperServer; for step-by-step debugging to view actual state of SQL-queries,
and even to reveal SQL-queries texts in close-sourced applications.
Please download it from here
http://www.ib-aid.com/free/FBScanner25Community.zip
Please be careful: this is not a production version, so do not use it at production systems.
Any feedback is welcome: fbs@ib-aid.com
Today i have installed Debian Lenny in an kqemu/kvm virtual machine (managed by virt-manager under ubuntu jaunty )
firebird by default there is 2.0.4 so i wanted the latest firebird2.1 stable from debian so i just dist upgraded the lenny to sid
by replacing all lenny words from /etc/apt/sources.list with sid then i did from console
an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade after that i have now access to firebird2.1 just released for sid
then in terminal apt-get install firebird2.1-super and after that dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-super
The main firebirdsql.org website was down , the server had an power supply failure , and now seems that Sean changed the server too
From Suse to Debian , Any problems detected with website please report to Firebird-website mailing list
Ladies, gentlemen,
“InterXpress for Firebird” is our driver that supports Borlands
dbExpress technology! Today we release version 2.1.0 of our driver,
this version includes support for Delphi 2009.
You can download a copy of it http://www.upscene.com.
Currently supported are Delphi 6, Delphi 7, BDS 2006, Delphi 2007,
RAD Studio/Delphi 2009, Kylix 3 and C++Builder 6.
What’s fixed, new and changed? Check it out here:
http://customer.upscene.com/script/mantisgateway.exe/fixed?fixedin=2.1.0&projectid=19
With InterXpress for Firebird you have guaranteed access to
Firebird and all its features. The driver comes in two versions:
– Desktop Edition
– Server Edition
All versions come with a full year of support and maintenance
updates. The support period can be extended at a reduced price
after the first year.
I’ve written this quite some time ago (and it didn’t receive much love since then, but it’s functional and should be bug-free), but I just noticed I haven’t mentioned it on my blog: fbsql is a clean C-API that can be used to create bindings for other languages (such as Python or Ruby). It’s much simpler to use than the raw Interbase/Firebird API and it uses IBPP internally. So it’s basically just forwarding the function calls to IBPP and abstracting the IBPP classes to a C interface that is straight forward and intuitive.
Here is the discussion with the new inclusion in Ruby Sequel (Sequel is a lightweight database access toolkit for Ruby)
