Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
The flamerobin version 0.9.3 – revision 2212 is now in published in debian sid
New snapshot builds (SVN revision 2210) for Windows 32 and 64 bits are
available on SF.net.
Feedback on field and text delimiter settings for save grid data as CSV
file command would be especially welcome.
Thanks
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Michael Hieke
IBSurgeon DBInfo is designed to visualize internal structure’s statistics, so administrators or developers can view how much data, index, blob or other kind of information your Firebird or InterBase database stores.
DBInfo is a free tool, download it now: http://ib-aid.com/products/firebird_interbase/monitoring/dbinfo
More information at IBSurgeon official site.
FBClone v2.1.4 is released .This is a “bugfix release” (field “XxX” not found when used against case sensitive databases.)
FBClone can clone a Firebird database in one shot (instead of backup/restore cycle) and pump data from one database to another with the same structure, it handles metadata / data charset conversion and may be useful to ease database owner change process or to migrate a database between two different firebird versions (eg. 2.1 -> 1.5)
firebird2.5 (2.5.2~svn+53775.ds4-1) package is now in debian testing
You can check the list of bugs fixed for firebird 2.5.2 (not yet released) in the tracker
Here is the list of debian changes and fixes
* Snapshot from upstream’s 2.5 branch, revision 53775
* control: note -doc doesn’t contain release notes (LP#908963)
* control: change transitional 2.5-dev package to oldlibs/extra
* control: -common package is arch:all
the last arch-specific bit, ibutil was moved to -server-common
* -classic.init: provide a status option
* control: 2.5-dev, -classic-common: depend on the same (source) version of
-common-doc
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird PHP Generator 11.12, a frontend to generate feature-rich CRUD web applications for your Firebird database. The software comes in both Freeware and Professional editions. |
New version introduces security enhancements, powerful data export features, new insertion and editing modes, improved project management and a lot of other new features. There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc).
The December Discount promotion is nearly finished, there are just a few days left to get a 40% discount on all products from Upscene Productions.
We offer tools for:
These tools include the multi DBMS development IDE “Database Workbench Pro”, also available in FREE Lite Editions for Firebird, InterBase and MySQL.
Auditing tools for InterBase, Firebird, Microsoft SQL Server, NexusDB and Advantage Database Server.
Our “Fb TraceManager” tool makes using the Firebird Trace API easy and allows continues monitoring of your Firebird server.
During development, you can use the “Advanced Data Generator” to create test data for your application, creating decent volumes of data for proper testing.
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DA-SOFT Technologies announces the availability of AnyDAC for Delphi Winter 2012 release v 5.0.5.2073 – high-speed, Universal Data Access Components for Firebird, Interbase, SQLite, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS Access, IBM DB2, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Informix, Advantage, dbExpress, ODBC, that simplifies the task of building Embarcadero Delphi, C++Builder and Free Pascal Compiler database applications. |
AnyDAC for Delphi can be immediately downloaded from the download page.
What is new in v5.0.5 and what is AnyDAC ?
As promised, FDB initial release (0.7.0) is out: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb/0.7.0
It’s almost feature-complete (ready for 95% of users), but it could be
still buggy (it’s beta!), and the code wasn’t optimized for size and
speed. In all other ways it’s ready for wide testing.
What’s missing:
– Distributed transactions
– ARRAY support
– EVENTs support
– Stream BLOBs
– TRACE service
– Documentation (but you can use KInterbasDB one as FDB is as close to
it as possible).
– Python 3.x support (haven’t had time to test it, but it shouldn’t be
hard to make it work there)
What’s new since my last post here:
– Support for stored procedures (proper one according to Python DB API,
behaviour is the same as in KInterbasDB)
– Prepared Statements. It works in exactly the same way as in
KInterbasDB, i.e. you can use explicit PS via cursor.prep(), or use the
internal PS cached for all statements executed via cursor.execute() – it
will detect previously executed command and re-use prepared statement
(cached per cursor instance!).
– Fully implemented cursor.description attribute, i.e. including
precision for DECIMAL/NUMERIC fields. Should now return the same results
as KInterbasDB.
– trans_info/transaction_info and db_info/database_info calls like in
KInterbasDB.
– Better object dependency and lifetime management, so Python memory GC
should be much happier now. I modelled it as much as KDB does it as
possible.
Source code is also in Firebird Project’s Subversion repository:
(KInterbasDB source moved)
Sorry for GIT/Mercurial etc. fans, but Firebird project uses only SVN
for all its code (except old obsolete ones that are still in CVS) and it
would be pointless to create another type of repository for such a small
project. However, you’re free to set up mirrors or local repositories on
GIT or whatever 🙂
Merry Christmas to all
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix
[ED: if you want to know how easy is to use , or how compatible it is related to kinterbasdb , read this post ]
