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What to expect from next Delphi versions? (good news to Firebird)

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Extracted from the special edition of Blaze Pascal magazine:

Project Weaver (próxima versão do Delphi, já em beta)

  • Main Themes
  • User Experience
  • Enhance Connectivity
  • Documentation
  • IDE usability
  • Team Productivity
  • Touch
  • IDE – Insight (easy Keyboard access to almost everything)
  • Improvements to DataSnap
  • Firebird Support
  • .NET AOP
  • SCM Support
  • Enhanced RTTI Support
  • Attribute Support
  • Seamless .NET and Native communication
  • Windows 7 APIs and Direct 2D
  • Full Support of SOAP 1.2 Clients

Project X

  • Cross-platform Windows, Mac OS, and Linux
  • Cross-platform component library
  • DataSnap on all platforms

Project Chromium

  • Quality enhancements
  • Pascal Code Formatter
  • Documentation of the OTA
  • New Data binding model allowing binding to almost any property on a control
  • More integration with the database tools.

Project Commodore

  • 64 Bit native
  • Full compiler, RTL and VCL support for 64 native
  • Multi-Core. Multi-threaded applications.

IBSurgeon: FBScanner 2.5 Pro and Community Edition are released

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We are glad to announce the new version of our FBScanner tool. In version 2.5 we have significantly increased feature set, usability and performance of FBScanner. Customers with more than 100 concurrent connections use FBScanner for daily administration of production systems and during QA/development stages. FBScanner is the only tool which can intercept and log all Firebird traffic, and show it in suitable format.

Download FBScanner 2.5 trial now.

As part of our development we continue to work at free Community Edition version of FBScanner, which is useful for debugging and testing purposes. Every Firebird developer who ever had questions like “What queries and transactions are performing right now in Firebird?” and “How do I know who is doing what.. in my Firebird?” should appreciate the variety of FBScanner Community Edition abilities.

Download FBScanner 2.5 CE now.

Please refer to feature matrix for detailed overview of FBScanner abilities.

Do not hesitate to contact IBSurgeon with any ideas, questions and problems you have. Write to support@ib-aid.com.

Firebird mention on Log Buffer #145: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

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Here is the text from this version of Buffer #145

It’s time to nominate Firebird for CCA 2009, SourceForge’s Community Choice Awards, says Firebird News. Firebird is nominated for Best Project, Best Tool or Utility for Developers, and Best Project for the Enterprise.

On Free Database: The Relational Databases Blog appears an embedded Firebird database overview. It begins, “I was looking for a small and powerful database in order to fulfill the requirements of my last project. Because the database will be running locally I took the decision to use an embedded database. After a few searches over the Internet and some embedded database comparison reviews, I found Firebird which is actually a powerful but unknown (yet) relational database system.”

On Compas Pascal, Lars Dybdahl makes some observations on the real-life latency of a Firebird server.

Real life latency of a Firebird server

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I just evaluated a switch of a Firebird server from a virtual VMware server to a physical server, and the results were stunning. I measured simple select SQL statements to a very small table, and on the virtual server, more than 90% of the queries finished in more than 20ms, and the median was between 20-30ms normally, and sometimes up to 80%. The 99% percentile was out of scale.

Continue reading in Compas Pascal blog.

16 versions of Firebird and Interbase are now available for recording on 64-bit platforms via MS SQL Linked Server

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Firebird and Interbase users implementing IBProvider drivers in their work last year were the first to take advantage of 64-bit applications. We have produced two more drivers in addition to 64-bit IBProvider v3: IBProvider v2 and IBProvider v1.

Firebird, Interbase and 64-bit MS SQL Linked Server

Due to 64-bit IBProvider v2 driver, 16 versions of Firebird and Interbase are now available for recording on 64-bit Windows OS via MS SQL Linked Server.

64-bit updatable rowsets in ADO

In addition to MS SQL Linked Server, there are many libraries and utilities that support updatable rowsets technology implemented only in IBProvider v2. One of such libraries is ADO library.

64-bit support in ADO and WHS allows to develop 64-bit automation scripts in VBScript language. For example:

  • Firebird/Interbase database automated administration scripts;
  • scripts for building reports, eporting to Office, XML, sending reports via email;
  • database backup, recovery, and replication scripts;
  • customizable business logic scripts in 64-bit applications;
  • etc.

With IBProvider drivers, writing of applications for Firebird and Interbase will become an easy and fascinating task.
We have made provision for the most difficult and will gladly share our technologies with you.

Release details on the ibprovider website: Firebird and Interbase driver

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