Category: Tools & Products releases

We believe in IBProvider v3 quality and robustness. And we want to make a gift for all Interbase and Firebird Community users. New IBProvider v3 Free Edition is absolutely free of charge and most powerful version based on the commercial core of IBProvider v3. We are sure the community will appreciate our gift, since previous free IBProvider v1.5 (Dec 2001) still counts about a thousand downloads a month.

IBProvider Professional Edition
Professional developer kit for Interbase and Firebird. Allows to creare powerful software in differents IDE’s and programming languages which support OLE DB, ADO or ADO .Net technology. Can be using as MS SQL Linked Server, in the OLAP cubes and in the reporting engines like Crystal Reports.
Read more about differences between IBProvider editions: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/documentation/differences_between_versions.html
Download latest version here: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/trial.html
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The aim of this UDF Library is to reuse or provide some additional functions to the rFunc UDF Library, in order to emulate Oracle SQL.

Due to the upgrade of HSQLDB, and to improve compatibility with Firebird and Frontbase, various database tables and columns have been renamed.

The table below summarises the changes to the database schema.

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Source and binary packages for Windows (setup.exe and .zip) and GNU/Linux (gtk1 and gtk2 for Slackware) are available for download. Packages for MacOSX, Debian/Ubuntu, Mandriva, Gentoo and FreeBSD are either done, or on their way soon.

Download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124340

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Tech Solutions are proud to announce the availability of Firebird Metadata
Synchronizer (FMS), a Windows utility that allows software developers & DBAs working with the open source Firebird SQL database, a simple and inexpensive way to migrate database changes from server to server. Retailing at $US39.00, FMS is an inexpensive solution to the problem of revising system DDL metadata.

Read more here.

xStarter FBIB is a job scheduler with special features for Firebird. It allow not only perform backup/restore or maintenance procedures but also execute SQL scripts at specified time.

You can read more about it here.