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Stored Procedures contest winners!

June 14, 2010 Cantu 2 comments

Dear All,

Stored procedures contest is over!
We had 12 submissions for the contest and have chosen 3 winners.

Winners are:

Set of mathematical operations implemented in pure Firebird SQL,
by pizmon (muirsheendur…@gmail.com)
Download www.mindthebird.com/MathematicOperation.pdf
XML File creation using Firebird in stored procedures, by Fernando
Medeiros
Download www.mindthebird.com/ToCreateXML.pdf
SP_ESCAPE and SP_UNESCAPE stored procedures: generate text with
line feeds, carriage returns, quotes and tabs in Firebird sql scripts,
by Fabiano Bonin.
Download www.mindthebird.com/SP_ESCAPE.pdf

Each winner can choose one of the following licenses from MindTheBird sponsors:

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Firebird 2.5 RC3 to be released soon

June 11, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Some fixes for known problems will be commited next week. After that it will be submitted to QA tests, so probably we will have RC3 released at end of June.

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Upscene Productions releases free Lite Edition of Database Workbench 4

June 10, 2010 Martijn Tonies Leave a comment

Upscene Productions is proud to release Database Workbench 4.0.2 Pro, a small maintenance release to the recent new major release of the multi-DBMS database developer tool Database Workbench 4, download a trial version here.

As of today, the free Lite Editions for version 4 have been released, these are stripped down editions of Database Workbench Pro and you can download and use these for free.

The Lite Editions support either of the following:

MySQL
Firebird
InterBase

Since version 4, they are fully Unicode enabled.

The Pro Edition supports one or more of the following:

MySQL
Firebird
InterBase
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
Sybase SQL Anywhere
NexusDB

Pricing information can be found here.

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FDD – more than 50% of seats already filled!

June 7, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

The Brazilian Firebird Developers Day will happen in 17/July, in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil. We still have more than 1 month for the conference, but already got more than 50% of the seats filled! Hurry up and don’t miss the chance to participate in this great conference!

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Flamerobin 0.9.3 svn revision r1897 pushed to #Debian experimental

June 2, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

New version for flamerobin 0.9.3 is now in Debian experimental for testing

The list of changes can be seen in the testing needed thread from above or in the changelog list

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Have a beer with Firebirders! (Prague chapter)

June 1, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

If you live in Czech Republic, here is your chance to meet some Firebird friends and drink some beers, in commemoration of the 10th FB anniversary!

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New Evans Data survey mentions Firebird

June 1, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Which of the following databases would you use when deploying applications in a Cloud environment?

You can answer the survey and vote for Firebird using the link http://surveys.evansdata.com/survey.php?ID=EDC_CUST_MAY_2010_2

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