Be quick to get a free license for IBProvider Professional v.3.0.00.8628

New version of IBProvider is now available. The new release:

  1. Use Unicode Windows API for national alphabet.
  2. Has an improved compatibility with SharePoint Designer.
  3. Errors in the type converter have been eliminated.

Be quick to get a free license for IBProvider Professional

Quite recently, Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 2 appeared. During regular IBProvider testing with new FB2.5 SuperClassic (RC2), we revealed a problem in the server: page 14194, page type 5 lock conversion denied (215).

The first person who publishes the reproduced example at our forum will be awarded with a free license for IBProvider Professional 64 bits Single Developer!

Please visit Firebird driver homepage for details.

Today, on January 18, 2010, IBProvider celebrates its 10th anniversary.

Today, on January 18, 2010, IBProvider celebrates its 10th anniversary. The grand banquet is preceded by the release of the latest IBProvider version with enhanced support of DDL and updatable rowsets.

  • We thank all who have been with us all these years.
  • We thank FibPlus, ZStyle Group, Gemini InterBase/Firebird ODBC Driver, Easysoft ODBC-InterBase Driver, IBObjects. Owing to you, we have what to compare IBProvider to; together we make a big deal of promoting Firebird and Intrebase among masses.
  • We thank Firebird developers. Owing to you, people have a good free database server.
  • We thank our clients. Owing to you, IBProvider has been developed and will be developed.

Changes in IBProvider

  • Supports DDL query “COMMENT ON” in Firebird 2.1
  • Updatable rowsets code revision in IBProvider

Read details here.

Performance of the new IBProvider increased by 4.5 times

We are glad to announce the release of new IBProvider Professional v3.0.0.7866.

IBProvider works 4.5 faster than the former versions.

In the new IBProvider version, we removed the cause of low performance of IBProvider builds compiled in Visual Studio. Now these builds work several times faster in both single-threaded and multi-threaded applications.

According to the test results, new IBProvider Professional v3 works 4.5 faster than the former versions.

Performance comparison graph here.

Other features

  • We fixed the error related to the queries pool
  • New component LPCI.IBP.Samples.RowCursor – the faster substitute for ADODB.Recordset

Source Fiebird driver homepage.

Now your programs for Firebird and Interbase are able to process any data volumes

We are glad to announce the release of new IBProvider Professional v3 codename “Shaitan” . The volume of processed data is now restricted only by the free space on your hard disk containing provider’s swap file. In the earlier versions of IBProvider, when the system cache had worked out available physical memory, the performance was dropping substantially.

IBProvider Professional codename “Shaitan” is able not only to process tens of gigabytes of data, but does it substantially faster than its predecessors do.

This is possible due to the usage of more efficient buffering and cashing algorithms and multithread data handling.

Furthermore, support of GB18030 charset was added.

Download new version right now: Firebird provider download.

New IBProvider 3.0.0.7575 with queries pool and enhanced working with Delphi.

Performance optimization for repeated queries
New IBProvider v3 has the pool of SQL-queries that stores prepared and created commands and allows substantial time saving with a large number of repeated queries for Firebird.

Support of tables list getting in Delphi in Client Cursor Engine mode
Tables list getting has been brought into compliance with the requirements of dbGo components in Client Cursor Engine mode.

Attention! Special offer!
20 % discount for any IBProvider license is valid for 4 days only.

Please read details here: query pooling in Firebird

Usage of BOOLEAN and GUID types in Firebird and Interbase now available with IBProvider

 
GUID type is currently not supported by any Firebird and Interbase server, but it is frequently used by different clients (for example, in ADO Entity Framework).

Boolean type is supported by Interbase starting from 7th version and is not supported by Firebird server. IBProvider can work with this type, but it lacks support from other servers.

New release of IBProvider 3.0.0.7446 supports Guid and Boolean types at driver level, and now you can freely use these types in your applications irrespective of Interbase and Firebird server versions.

Absolutely fresh article of how to with types via IBProvider:
Usage of BOOLEAN and GUID types in Firebird and Interbase.

New IBProvider version with enhanced Firebird 2.5 support

New IBProvider Professional 3.0.0.7270 version has appeared.

Following changes were implemented:

  • Commands cancellation support in Firebird 2.5 and Interbase 6.5.
  • Support of new data type SQL_NULL in Firebird 2.5.
  • Access to BLOB fields from ADOExpress (dbGo) bug was fixed.
  • New implementation of result sets cache.

Detailed release description and code samples of the Firebird 2.5 implemented features available here: IBProvider RC4 3.0.0.7270

16 versions of Firebird and Interbase are now available for recording on 64-bit platforms via MS SQL Linked Server

Firebird and Interbase users implementing IBProvider drivers in their work last year were the first to take advantage of 64-bit applications. We have produced two more drivers in addition to 64-bit IBProvider v3: IBProvider v2 and IBProvider v1.

Firebird, Interbase and 64-bit MS SQL Linked Server

Due to 64-bit IBProvider v2 driver, 16 versions of Firebird and Interbase are now available for recording on 64-bit Windows OS via MS SQL Linked Server.

64-bit updatable rowsets in ADO

In addition to MS SQL Linked Server, there are many libraries and utilities that support updatable rowsets technology implemented only in IBProvider v2. One of such libraries is ADO library.

64-bit support in ADO and WHS allows to develop 64-bit automation scripts in VBScript language. For example:

  • Firebird/Interbase database automated administration scripts;
  • scripts for building reports, eporting to Office, XML, sending reports via email;
  • database backup, recovery, and replication scripts;
  • customizable business logic scripts in 64-bit applications;
  • etc.

With IBProvider drivers, writing of applications for Firebird and Interbase will become an easy and fascinating task.
We have made provision for the most difficult and will gladly share our technologies with you.

Release details on the ibprovider website: Firebird and Interbase driver

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