Firebird DB management tool – continuing the story
After a week of using my homegrown tool for managing Firebird databases, I have realised that it would help a great deal if I could edit live data
Nbackup manuals updated
A rather big (and long overdue!) update of the Dutch and English nbackup manuals has just been committed (to trunk and B_Release) and published on the website.
Next task: Language Reference!
Cheers,
Paul Vinkenoog
New case-study: Point of Sale Systems for the Carwash Industry
A new case-study was added to FirebirdSQL site. It is always interesting to ready such articles, and know about other companies experiences with Firebird. This time it is about DRB Systems moving from InterBase 6 to Firebird to solve stability problems. Read more.
Firebird Perl DBI driver 0.60 released
New version of DBI driver for Firebird is available at cpan with many changes and bugfixes . Please report any bugs and add them to the github project’s issues list
To download from cpan and install, simply do:
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARIUZ/DBD-Firebird-0.60.tar.gz
tar -zxvf DBD-Firebird-0.60.tar.gz
cd DBD-Firebird-0.60/
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
optional step
DBI_PASS=masterkey make test
Working on adding JDBC 4.1 methods to Jaybird
Mysql Sakila Sample database is ported to Firebird
Just letting everyone know that we have ported Sakila Sample database to Firebird
Here is the project page
http://code.google.com/p/sakila-sample-database-ports
Case Study: Moscow City Hospital
Take a look at the new case study published in the FirebirdSQL site. Interesting that they choosed Firebird over Oracle, and cost was not the only factor. Worth reading!
There are other case studies published in the site. Make sure to read them all, and if you have an interesting case to show, contact the moderator to know how to publish it there.
pyfirebirdsql (python 3.x driver) here is a first todo list
Philippe Makowski wrote a first todo list for the driver  :
- add multiple transactions per connection management
- add prepared statements management
- extend services api
- improve info_database output (see db_info in kinterbasdb)
after that, I think that someone could work on sqlalchemy integration
I’ll try to first add the multiple transactions per connection
management in my repo (will create a branche for that)
Volunteers ?
Anything else ?
pyfirebirdsql (Firebird driver for python 3.x) version 0.5 released
Please try new release 0.5.0
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/firebirdsql/0.5.0
Changelog includes :
- execute parameter bugfix.
- Added more tests.,
- fetchall() simplification
- use generators when fetching records.
- Support only for python > 2.5+

