Category: Tools & Products releases

Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.

RAD Studio XE in Devart VCL

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From Irina Pisklyarova:

Devart announced the new versions of VCL Data Access Components with full support of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE.

The Devart VCL Data Access Components product line consists of the solutions that provide access from Delphi, Delphi for .NET, C++Builder, and Free Pascal chest, and offer wide coverage of the database servers’ feature sets. Devart Data Access Components provide the direct access to Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil, SQLite, DB2, Microsoft Access, Advantage Database Server, Adaptive Server Enterprise, and other databases.

Firebird Sql 2.5 for #Apple #MacOSX is out, Minimum supported version is 10.6 Snow Leopard

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NOTE :: To make the new engine work properly under multi-threaded conditions we had to use Grand Central Dispatch, which was first released in MacOSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard). MacOSX users should be aware that Firebird 2.5 will run only on MacOSX 10.6 or higher versions. If you want to use an earlier version of OSX you will need to use an earlier version of Firebird.

Download from usual location :

http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=engine_250

ANN: Firebird Trace Manager 1.0.1 incl. Firebird 2.5 launch 25% discount

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Upscene Productions is proud to announce Firebird Trace Manager 1.0.1.

This release adds support for Firebird 2.5 Final and minor
enhancements/bugfixes: http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20101004

Firebird Trace Manager is currently the only tool available on the
market, which exposes the new Trace and Audit Services in Firebird 2.5
in a very user-friendly way. The following editions are available:

– Lite Edition (FREELY available)
– Standard Edition
– Enterprise Edition

More information is available in the Firebird Trace Manager section on
our website, including an edition comparison sheet, video introduction
etc.: http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm

We are celebrating the Firebird 2.5 launch event with a 25% DISCOUNT on
Firebird Trace Manager until October 10th, 2010. Simply use the
following coupon code in the purchase process: FBTMLAUNCH

Little helper library for writing #UDFs for Firebird in #Lua

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Helper C library for writing UDFs for Firebird in Lua (as well as a small collection of useful UDFs). The Firebird UDF interface would hopefully be obsoleted in Firebird v3.0 and replaced with the new External Engine API. Until then, I hope you find this little library helpful. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.

http://code.google.com/p/firebird-lua-udfs/

For tips on how to write UDFs for Firebird yourself, read UdfWritingTips.

PS: If writing UDFs in Lua seems overkill, checkout the other UDF library written in freepascal.

Benchmark tool

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Philippe Makowski posted this at fb-devel:

Hi,

I found this bench : http://tokutek.com/products/iibench/

(http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mdcallag/mysql-patch/mytools/annotate/head%3A/bench/ibench/iibench.py)

and aibench.py:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mdcallag/mysql-patch/mytools/annotate/head%3A/bench/ibench/aibench.py

I made a Firebird version of both. You can download them here : http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/rabbits/pmakowski/

If you find them useful, I will put them in the svn QA repository

Is it possible to write a similar Firebird database driver?

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Today we are (IBProvider team) overwhelmingly happy because we have finally released the final build of the 3rd version of IBProvider.

Is it possible to write a similar database driver?

Of course, you can write it! All you need is a strong desire and 7 years of free time. Exactly the same time it took us to write the third version of IBProvider.

Please read about development results here and download new Firebird driver here:
Firebird driver developers results

—
Regards, IBProvider Team.

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