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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

New IBProvider support of 49 code pages

November 9, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

The new IBProvider version:

Support of 49 Firebird and Interbase code pages including UNICODE_FSS, UTF8 and OCTETS binary data. Supported character sets.
Possible provider operation without registration in the system via manifest file.
The article: Example of working with Firebird and Interbase without registering additional components.
Prevention of memory leaks in Firebird client during library unloading.
Specific errors have been fixed.

Read details on: Firebird driver news channel

New article: Start working with Firebird

October 21, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

IBProvider announce the artcile: Start working with Firebird

Table of content:
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What is Firebird SQL Server?
What Firebird version to choose?
Firebird installation: choosing server type
       Firebird Super Server
       Firebird Classic Server
       Firebird Embedded
       If it is difficult to choose
Start working with Firebird
      New Firebird database creation
Firebird security
      SYSDBA User. Changing default password
Connection to Firebird from client’s application
   Firebird and VBScript, Visual Basic, VBA
   Firebird and Delphi
   Firebird and .Net
   Firebird and C++
Firebird database editing
The List of Firebird administration utilities
Useful links

Original manual: Firebird

In the new edition of IBProvider Professional 7 codepages support was implemented, bugs were fixed, BLOB-fields access and memory management was improved

October 5, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3

Support of the following codepages added: DOS858, TIS620, BIG5, KSC_5601, GB_2312, SJIS_0208, EUCJ_0208;
Bug in the errors handling for OUT-parameters of query was fixed;
BLOB-fields access was improved;
Memory management was improved;

IBProvider v2/v1

BLOB-fields access was improved;
Memory management was improved;

Source: Interbase and Firebird driver site

New packages of IBProvider Professional Edition came out

July 30, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3 [build 3.0.0.4963]

NUMERIC-types support was improved.
Disabled metadata cache mode performance was increased in 2.5 times.
Metadata schemes were updated. Among them in schemes TABLE_INFO and TABLES classification of external (EXTERNAL TABLE) and temporary tables (GLOBAL TEMPORARY PRESERVE/DELETE) was added starting from Firebird 2.1 and Interbase 7.5.
Correct processing of active transactions in the connection pool.

New build IBProvider v1.9.9.2547 and IBProvider v2.6.3.2547

BLOB-columns metadata description bug was fixed.
Correct processing of active transactions in the connection pool.

Details on the Firebird driver site.

IBProvider Release Candidate 3 is available

July 8, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

Support of the integrated Windows authentification (SSPI) for
Firebird 2.1.
Support of the system auth using environment variables: ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD.
Feature of enable/disable database triggers for separate connection is available.
Support of long names and BOOLEAN type in Interbase 7.x and Interbase 2007 was added.
Support of arrays was improved. Access to arrays via IBProvider now becomes more robust in comparison with other Firebird database access components.

Read details on the IBProvider site.

IBProvider releases have appeared

June 17, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

IBProvider releases have appeared.

OCTETS character set and binary data support in IBProvider v3 was implemented.
Fixed bug occuring when accessing to VARCHAR columns with large size via MS SQL Linked server.
64 bits values in metadata schematics are now supported.
Data type converter was tested by 43000 unit tests.

Read details on the Interbase/Firebird OLE DB driver site.

New version of IBProvider

May 14, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

IBProvider team released own OLE DB Interbase and Firebird driver.

New implementation of the data type’s converter.
Test system was improved and found bugs were fixed. More than 15 000 tests coded.
Core was optimized.

Read more about new IBProvider data type converter

The final 3rd part of the Interbase and Firebird Developer’s manual for ADO .Net

April 21, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

The 3rd part of the Interbase and Firebird Developer’s manual for ADO .Net was published. Examples for DDL queries, metadata schemas and ODBC sequences were presented.

The 2nd part of the Interbase and Firebird Developer’s manual for ADO .Net

April 14, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

The 2nd part of the Interbase and Firebird Developer’s manual for ADO .Net has published. It describe code generators and Visual Studio 2005/2008 tools.

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