firebird 2.0 debian packages available for testing
Debian users are encouraged to help proof-testing the newly packaged firebird 2.0.
Please help improving the packages by reporting bugs to dam@modsoftsys.com and/or Jabber ID dam@jabber.minus273.org
Debian users are encouraged to help proof-testing the newly packaged firebird 2.0.
Please help improving the packages by reporting bugs to dam@modsoftsys.com and/or Jabber ID dam@jabber.minus273.org
For Brazilians (and Portuguese speakers in general) that pretend to attend the next FDD edition (2007), please answer the survey available at infopoll.net/live/surveys/s30419.htm to let us know about what is your expectations for the conference.
An updated build of the .pkg file is at:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/Firebird-CS-2.0.pkg.zip
Right Click and Save As.
Fixed, problem with SET NAMES and loading character sets
Fixed, problem with loading UDFs
Regards
Paul Beach
One of our customer recently wanted to perform some heavy duty computations on his Interbase Stored Procedures (analysis and transformations).
Instead of plunging head on in an ad-hoc tool, we started to build a general parser. So we had to start-off with a BNF grammar. We already presented a simplified Sql grammar for the main INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and SELECT requests. So we extended this grammar to handle the stored procedures as well.
Most of the grammar applies to Firebird as well. You can read the full article here.
There’s a new Null Guide beta at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/manual/temp/nullguide/nullguide.html
The following things have been added since the previous beta: Read more
Developer Progress Reports for Core , DSQL , INTL & Security/Linux Builds (POSIX)
Someone is using Firebird and Flamerobin but i don’t know what is his native language ( is he from Jackarta Indonesia ?)
[ED: he added Firebird 2.0 RC3 in his list of great software releases for the previous year but he forgot that firebird final was released in November]
2006 was a great year for software. I thought I would make my first post of the new year as a review of the software that was released last year that caught my interest. This is software that I think will have an impact on the world (some big, some small). It is not necessarily software that I use on a regular basis (or at all :).