Firebird News

Embarcadero/CodeGear officialy interested in Firebird

December 6, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the closing session of CodeRage (an intl on-line conference done by Embarcadero/CodeGear):

The Closing Keynote was given by Embarcadero CEO Wayne Williams and was very interesting[…]Two noticeable things. First, an official reference to Firebird as a database they want to invest to. I guess better Delphi connectivity and DatabaseGear support might come to this database, but it is just my speculation.

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Flamerobin Snapshot for 64 bit Windows – please test

December 5, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Michael uploaded a setup for Windows XP 64 and Vista 64, could those of
you using one of those systems please try it and report success or failure?

It works on my machine, FWIW…

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FlameRobin user interface: SDI or tab-based?

December 5, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Michael started again to work on the FlameRobin redesign, with multithreaded database access. Since FR 0.9.0 is using the wxAUI library for tabbed property pages He decided to use wxAUI for all of FR
A new poll is up so we get an idea whether the current FlameRobin UI is liked (or not so much) among the FR user base.

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SQLObject 0.10.3 released

December 5, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Released 1 Dec 2008.

A number of changes ported from SQLObject 0.9.8.

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Database identifiers, quoting and case sensitivity

December 4, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Exploring database delimited identifiers and case sensitivity: the effect of quoting table and field names in the various DBMS.

Article by Lorenzo Alberton

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Access to Firebird from Delphi using dbGo components

December 1, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

The new article was published: Working with Firebird and Interbase from Delphi using IBPRovider and dbGo components.

Table of content:

TADOConnection component
TADOTable component
TADODataSet component
Sending changes to database – updatable rowsets technology
Client and server cursors
What provider to choose?
TADOQuery component
SQL-queries with parameters
TADOStoredProc component
TADOCommand component
Transactions

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TurboCASH 4: Release Candidate1

November 26, 2008 mariuz One comment

The TurboCASH Project is proud to present our Release Candidate 1 for TurboCASH 4.0.1.10 This is the culmination of a years preparation to move TurboCASH to a new platform based on the Firebird database.

This release has been prepared to ship to 81 countries. The biggest change we have made here is to open up the the code for the input of a greater number of contributors. The plugin architecture has been widened to include Delphi dlls.

The program sports a revised user interface and improves data accessability. Included now is the Reportman Database reporter. TurboCASH 4 can run from a singel user embedded on a memory stick right up to 50 Plus users.

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