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Release of IBProvider v5

February 14, 2019 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

We are proud to introduce the fifth version of our basic product for working with Firebird and InterBase.
IBProvider v5 inherits all the best from IBProvider v3 and dramatically improves the quality of implementation of the OLE DB components.
For the last few years, the main development line of IBProvider was fixing problems that prevented its stable operation. First of all, we had to fix problems not related to the provider itself — we rewrote the client for Firebird and the standard pool of OLE DB connections. It took a lot of time and resourses, but it was worth it.
Now the time has come to get to IBProvider itself.
Instead of local fixes, within the support of the third version we redesigned the inner infrastructure of the OLE DB components of IBProvider taking into account the entire experience gained over the last years. In part, the ideas were taken from our ADO.NET provider.
The main qualities of IBProvider v5 are reliability and fail safety…

Read full text of IBProvider v5 release.

With Best Regards, IBProvider Team.

Pure Elixir database driver for Firebird

February 12, 2019 mariuz Leave a comment

Hajime Nakagami created a new driver for Elixir Programming language

https://github.com/nakagami/firebirdex

LibreOffice 6.2 is here! It includes a new (optional) user interface called the NotebookBar, along with improved compatibility, performance boosts, a reworked help system and many other updates. Learn more and download it .

Firebird related release notes:

Support for Base files using embedded Firebird RDBMS becomes non experimental in this release.
Firebird Migration Assistant now creates a backup copy of the existing content.xml file inside the HSQL based ODB file prior to the actual migration process.
Access2Basic basic library, bundled with the 6.2 release, adds full support for Firebird RDBMS.

IBReplicator V5.0.6 has been released.

January 29, 2019 mariuz Leave a comment

IBReplicator V5.0.6 has been released. More information in the release notes.

Firebird Docker image updated to 3.0.4

January 10, 2019 mariuz Leave a comment

You can use the Firebird 3.0.4 docker image based on Debian Jessie

https://hub.docker.com/r/jacobalberty/firebird/

Thanks to Serghei Cebotari for this update

Alex Peshkoff added 3 new builtin functions : base64_encode/decode and crc32 in Firebird master branch

January 8, 2019 mariuz Leave a comment

Alex Peshkoff added 3 new builtin functions : base64_encode/decode and crc32 in Firebird master branch related to
CORE-5970

Lazarus Release Candidate 3 for 2.0

January 8, 2019 mariuz Leave a comment

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the third release candidate of Lazarus 2.0.

IBX 2.3.2 is now available for download with Lazarus 2.0 support

January 8, 2019 mariuz Leave a comment

MWA Software is pleased to announce that release 2.3.2 of IBX for Lazarus is now available for download from https://mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx. Older versions of IBX will fail to compile with Lazarus 2.0 and upgrade to this version is necessary for use with Lazarus 2.0. All users are recommended to upgrade to the new release. Please read the changelog before upgrading. The release also includes a new SQL Tokeniser and the ability to select the Firebird Library (DLL or shared object) as a property of TIBDatabase or TIBXServicesConnection. Several minor bug fixes are also included.

23 More Ways To Speed Up Firebird

January 8, 2019 IBSurgeon News Leave a comment

The new article with the collection of tips and tricks to improve Firebird database performance: 23 More Ways To Speed Up Firebird. The article is based on the appropriate presentation from “Firebird Performance Tour” seminar.

Why “23 more”?

Some of you can remember the article 45 Ways To Speed Up Firebird, which was published in May 2016. Now it is time for some more tips and tricks, mostly based on the experience of optimization and maintenance of the Firebird databases and servers with the high number of connections (1000+).

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