Firebird News

Boolean datatype implemented in FB 3

December 18, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

The support for a BOOLEAN datatype was the third most voted feature in the Firebird tracker. The deal with it was about make it right and complete, having booleans expressions allowed where values are expected, and vice versa. Oracle did it wrong and they BOOLEAN is crap.

Yesterday I finished and committed this support for Firebird 3. You can use them like any other type. You can index it, aggregate by it and sort by it. If you have an index on a boolean field, you can also do indexed searches by its negated form (NOT field).

Read full post in Adriano’s blog.

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ibphoenix.com relaunched with new interface

December 16, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

I like the new style for ibphoenix , minor glitch is the firebird image in corner is quite blurry and should be replaced with higher quality image
also on my monitor is too small 1920×1080 and i have to do 3xCTRL+ to fit the screen, maybe a liquid layout should be applied (i will send the bug and the fix) . In rest is great maybe is too much white in background and the stripped green background should be a added back ?

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Migrating Application from #Django 1.1.x to 1.2.x (Latest stable)

December 15, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Here is my story about migrating one app from django 1.1.x to 1.2.x using firebird-django 1.2 branch

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Building reports direct from the DB

December 15, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

From Adam Witkowski <adamwitkowski3@gmail.com>

Hi,

We have created a free application that allows the user to make
reports out of Firebird data base in an easy way.

If you are interested in it check our project’s website:

http://sites.google.com/site/datavisualizationapplication/

Best regards,
Adam Witkowski

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#PHP 5.3.4 released with Firebird driver included in the #Windows zip/installer

December 13, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Php 5.3.4 is released with the firebird driver enabled (for pdo too) but only for the Visual C++ 9 builds

(If you use Apache on Windows you should check if it’s build with VC9 before using the new builds , VC6 build driver is not available for the moment)
ps: apache lounge does have VC9 builds for Apache but i didn’t tested it yet

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Complete Language Reference hopefully completed by the end of winter

December 13, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Dimitry Yemanov wrote about the complete Firebird 2.5 reference and how will be structured

I’m starting working on the contents for the complete Firebird 2.5
Language Reference with a hope to have it completed this winter. All the
appropriate questions and issues will be posted here in order to keep
everybody in sync. The first thing to discuss would be the document
structure.

Here is what I have in mind:

http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/rabbits/dimitr/LangRef.html

It’s just a draft and any feedback is welcome.

The major difference from what we have now is that the syntax diagrams
(along with the detailed description of the every clause) is moved to
the appendix A.

The major chapters contain the introduction to the appropriate
statements and the information on how to apply them to the common usage
patters instead.

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fb_adapter gem for #Ruby on #Rails is updated to fix doc generation

December 11, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

There was a small issue on building and installing the adapter and now is fixed. 0.5.10 version is now checked in and pushed to RubyGems.org.

Announced Via twiter

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The 1.5, 2.0 and 2.1 Language Reference updates is now updated

December 10, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Paul Vinkenoog wrote on Firebird-docs

The 1.5, 2.0 and 2.1 LangRef Updates have been “heavily” updated. Taken together, some 200 sections were corrected, extended, added, or whatever.

This ought to earn me enough karma to get me through my next 3 lives in relative luxury.

I’m now working on the 2.5 LRU, which I hope to finish this month.

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