Firebird 2.5 beta 1 – windows kits reuploaded
Kits for Windows were all replaced today to include some components that were missing. The new kits have the infix “-1” or “_1” after the build number, e.g. “Firebird-2.5.0.23247_1_Win32_Beta1.exe”.
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebird aquires NimbusDB
The aquisition was funded by Firebird Foundation. Firebird 2.1.3 will include cloud database features merged from NimbusDB, that was being developed by Jim Starkey.
In the other side, Jim will not join the project, and plans to spend the money buying a bigger boat and sail around the world for the next 5 years.
Firebird to be (officially) supported in next Delphi version
Signals shows that Firebird will be officially supported in the next version of Delphi. That’s what Anders Ohlsson says, as published in Marco Cantu blog:
He said that in the next version of Delphi they are looking forward to supporting (among other features) Firebird, touch-based UI (multi-platform touch engine), 64bit, and cloud computing.
Database Workbench 3.3 Pro released
Ladies, gentlemen,
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular database development tool: Database Workbench Pro 3.3
Changes Highlights in 3.3
– Better Stored Routine Debugger
– Ability to cancel import/export processes
– Monitoring GUI for Firebird 2.1
– Ability to cancel running queries in NexusDB, SQL Anywhere and Firebird 2.1
– Stored Routine debugger for SQL Anywhere
– Many new features, enhancements and bug fixes…
New Feature Highlights in 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0
Read more
Firebird on Glassfish
Firebird changelog feed (rss/json) and yahoo pipes
Firebird Database Changelog without the daily build_no.h changes http://xrl.us/bemsvb
I have used the Fisheye Rss feed
Benerator – test data generator
While looking for some nice free test data generator for Firebird, I just stumbled into Benerator:
http://databene.org/databene-benerator/
benerator supports you in performing realistic load and performance tests. It is a framework for generating realistic and valid high-volume test data for your system under test (avoiding the Datalite anti-pattern)
Apparently, it works with Firebird:
http://databene.org/databene-benerator/faq/80-which-systems-does-benerator-support.html
Populating a DataGridView From a Database Query
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.
Jason Wharton – Bad/Good news for Ibo community
IBProvider Release Candidate 4
New release candidate of IBProvider Professional Edition has appeared. Is the modern driver for access to 16 versions of the Firebrd and Interbase servers.
Improved support of DDEX (Data Designer Extensibility) when working with Firebird and Interbase
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.
Optimized working with named parameters in SQL query text
- Fewer limitations for multiple use of same named parameter in SQL query text
- New algorithm for choosing named parameter data type.
- Some errors of named parameters procession detected via profound testing by exhaustive method have been eliminated.
Metadata schemes and column descriptions (IColumnsRowset) support user encoding
Metadata schemes and IColumnRowset interface now consider user charset . This allows working with metadata in set encoding.