Editorial
In the editorial for the 3d issue of Firebird SQL newsletter we'd like to draw your attention to the upcoming Firebird 3. Firebird Project needs more testers for Firebird 3, and even if you are short in time, you can help Firebird with very simple quick test - download Firebird 3, make backup backup/restore of your current Firebird database and try to work with it.
Firebird 3 snapshots (as well as current development snapshots for 2.5.2 and older releases) are available here: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/snapshot-builds/
To report your findings, please use Firebird Tracker: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org (don’t forget to search it for the similar problem).
Community News Index (www.firebirdnews.org)
The news below was collected from FirebirdNews site. You can periodically visit the site or subscribe to its RSS feed to keep up to date in almost real-time with all the news coming from the Firebird community.
Community News
Here is the download page and you can check the
Commit History for interesting changes (new features)and fixes (memory leaks , utf-8 char fields encoding handling).
- Fix for slda improper init
- Fixed memory leak for situation when single connection was used several times for several async queries, it also was making server to eat memory
- Fix to stream for char fields in UTF encoding
- Added async transaction start
- One fix to allow run execute procedure (and tests were added)
I have built Firebird ODBC driver
2.0.1 release today. I have uploaded all files into
sourceforge area.
All changes you can look in the file — changes-v20.log.
Regards,
Alexander Potapchenko
From
Dmitry Yemanov:
The project
roadmap has been updated a bit. The change is to boost the v2.1.5 and v2.5.2 releases at the cost of slightly delaying the v3.0 Alpha release.
Firebird 2.1.4 was released exactly one year ago, so now it's a promised time for v2.1.5. It has 53 bugs fixed and no critical issues remaining unresolved. Firebird 2.5.1 was released more than 5 months ago and the expected release date for v2.5.2 is approaching the next month. It has 45 issues resolved up-to-date and a few more are in the pipeline. So it makes a lot of sense to release them sooner rather than later.
The v3.0 Alpha release will be going through the preparation stage while all three release candidates (v2.0.7, v2.1.5, v2.5.2) are being field tested, so it's likely to appear shortly after the aforementioned releases, in the second quarter.
Thanks for your understanding.
Dmitry Yemanov wrote a series of articles related to Firebird network performance:
- First article is: Generic thoughts about the network performance
- Second article is: Protocol packets and buffers
- And the last one is: Records batching.
The Lazarus team is glad to
announce the 0.9.30.4 release. This release is based on
fpc 2.6.0.
Don't forget to take advantage of our 20% St.Patrick's Day Weekend Discount!
The free Lite Editions will be released next week.
Database Workbench supports:
- Borland InterBase (6.x-XE)
- Firebird (1.x, 2.x)
- MS SQL Server/MSDE (7, 2000, 2005, 2008, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express)
- MySQL 4.x, 5.x
- Oracle Database (8i, 9i, 10g, 11g)
- Sybase SQL Anywhere (9, 10, 11 and 12)
- NexusDB (3.0 and up)
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ХудожникMichael Van Canneyt
announced his full text indexer project:
I've
committed a file/database indexing and search engine, fpindexer, to SVN.
It was developed by Darius Blaszijk, with help from me. One of the planned uses is to create searchable documentation. I've also (in a private project) used it to implement full-text search on a database that doesn't support that natively.
News via
Maximiliano Robaina and here is
the patch. To check more about the project you can check it's
homepage.
See the lazarus
full thread and you can clone the
git repository.
It's a small app that sits in the tray, and can be used to manage project time. If there is interest, I can donate it to the Lazarus community. It also serves as a nice example of how to program Lazarus and
tiOPF.
It also keeps a todo list and a list of interruptions. (the helpdesk walks in and out of my office, which I started tracking to prove that this practice costs me 1.5 hours a day.)
I posted the project at
http://www.freepascal.org/~michael/timetrack.zip
You'll need tiOPF and a database server. I use (and recommend) Firebird, but changing it to something else takes about 2 lines of code.
The included
time.sql file creates the database.
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce V2.5.1 of FB TraceManager, a professional environment to monitor, profile, trace and optimize Firebird databases.
More information on the new release is available here: http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20120313 |
This release extends the per-database monitoring capabilities with database statistics (data/index pages and record version information) monitoring. Adds support for ODS 11.1 (Firebird 2.1) monitoring tables and several other improvements and fixes. In combination with the Trace API, this is a powerful and integrated toolset to optimize and tune your Firebird server, database and client application even further.
There are also the following new screencasts available:
More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.: http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm
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Upscene Productions announces the 2nd public beta of: "Hopper — a Stored Code Debugger".
This release fixes several issues as reported by you, our users, and introduces Firebird 3 Stored Functions support. |
For more information and a trial download,
see the news @ Upscene Productions,
pricing information is available.
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The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that the v2.0.7 release candidate kits for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms are ready for testing.
The download page:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-2-0-7-rc1/
Enjoy the testing and please don't hesitate to report the found regressions (if any) in the Firebird-Devel list or in the bug tracker.
Regards,
Dmitry
The
Firebird Book: a Reference for Database Developers
— Edition II (Beta) is now availble directly from IBPhoenix in electronic format on the March 2012 Edition of the
Developer DVD. It covers Firebird up to Firebird V2.5.
If you buy a copy of the early version, you will have automatic accessto updated versions as they are released.If you have a subscription to the IBPhoenix Developer DVD you will automatically recieve your copy via post shortly.
www.ibphoenix.com
Philippe Makowski
wrote on google plus:
For several years now, I'm yearning for a feature that I think that all SQL based databases that I know are missing, and throw it back to the program side.
The feature I wish to have is a way to set a specific record to be valid for only a known period of time, and when the time is up, I'll be able to do something.
In
this post I'll try to create some sort of general specification for such feature, and I hope that there will be many comments on this that will benefit everyone, and I hopeful, that they will make the idea better.
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce the first beta of a new tool: "Hopper — a Stored Code Debugger".
This beta is available for Firebird, after it's version 1 release, an InterBase Edition will be made available soon, a MySQL Edition will follow later this year.
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For more information and a trial download,
see the news @ Upscene Productions,
pricing information is available.
March 1 Update! New installer uploaded to fix a problem with missing syntax highlighting files.
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Philippe Makowski
announced that he just committed new files in
github fdb repository.
He implemented
firebird services api for Python 3 driver, this driver version doesn't work yet for Python 2, and it is only the first step.
Certainly some improvements would be welcome.You can see diff
here.
The hope is that he will start working on fbcore soon
Like most users when I started using Firebird I connected using the SYSDBA username. That is the default username for server administration: every server has it.
It looked like a good idea because I did not have to care with users management, but I have now realized that using SYSDBA for database development can cause problems when the database is deployed to the customer's computer.
Read
the rest on Accounting++ blog.
Hi! I am happy to announce the new major release of Database .NET 6.0 Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool, you can Browse objects, Design tables, Edit rows, Export data and run Queries with a consistent interface. A standalone tool that does not require installation.
Click here for the full list of changes in Ver 6.0 (2012/02/23)
Features:
Supports:
- Firebird Super/Classic/Embedded Server (*.gdb;*.fdb;*.*)
- SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008R2/2012
- SQL Server CE 3.1/3.5/4.0 (*.sdf;*.*)
- SQL Server Express and LocalDB
- SQL Azure
- SQLite (*.db;*.db3;*.sqlite;*.*)
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- IBM DB2
- IBM Informix
- Sybase ASE
- MS Access 97-2003 (*.mdb;*.*)
- MS Access 2007-2010 (*.accdb;*.*)
- MS Excel 97-2003 (*.xls;*.*)
- MS Excel 2007-2010 (*.xlsx;*.*)
- dBase IV (*.dbf)
- FoxPro (*.dbc)
- Data Sources(OLE DB) (*.udl;*.*)
- ODBC DSN(Data Source Name) (*.dsn;*.*)
- OData
All-In-One, Free, Simple and Standalone (no install).
Supported Platforms: Windows All (x86/x64)
Requires: .NET Framework 4.0 or higher
You're welcome to download the Database .NET v4 right now at: Download:
DatabaseNet4.zip (7.03MB)
News from
ibexpert page New Data import, Extract metadata and Search metadata features, new IBEBlock functions, and more New features include:
- Data import: now you can convert Boolean values to
smallint values when importing data into a new table. You can also now automatically generate simple column names for the target table.
- To-Do list: now you can duplicate To-Do items.
- Extract metadata: New Always include COLLATE option.
- Search metadata: New Do not search in comments option.
- New IBEBlock functions and features.
- Many small bug fixes and minor improvements.
Since version 2011.12.01 IBExpert now uses the Firebird database and Firebird Embedded 2.5 to store all IBExpert data (registered databases, query histories etc.) by default. In previous versions by default IBExpert stored this data in the
IBExpert.stg file and the user was able to change this manually in
Options / Environment Options / User Database. Working with
IBExpert.stg is still possible (for example, if you disable the User Database manually), but you will get a warning every time you start IBExpert, and we will not support this method in the future.
- The Customer version (
setup_customer.exe) can be downloaded here (for customers with valid license keys). You can also download the customer version in theIBExpert KG Download Center. If you can not see it there, you might have used a different e-mail in the customer registration process or your account has already expired.
- The Trial version (
setup_trial.exe) can be downloaded here (45 day test version) or from the IBExpert KG Download Center.
- The free Personal version (
setup_personal.exe) can be downloaded here (version with limited features free of charge).
From Paul Beach's Blog:
We are currently preparing to release Firebird 2.0.7, since I take responsinility for the Mac builds, I did a 2.0.7 build on MacOSX 10.7 using the development tools installed by XCode 4.1 (gcc 4.2.1 etc). I set up the relevant environment variables for this older 32bit only build CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LD_FLAGS and also set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4. The builds completed without any problems, some simple tests on MacOSX 10.7 showed no problems.
Now — Imagine my surprise when Philippe told me that when he tried to QA the builds on MacOSX 10.5 we got
this error on SuperServer startup.
The technology trends we have described put SSDs in an unusual position for a cutting-edge technology: SSDs will continue to improve by some metrics (notably density and cost per bit), but everything else about them is poised to get worse.
This makes the future of SSDs cloudy: While the growing capacity of SSDs and high IOP rates will make them attractive in many applications, the reduction in performance that is necessary to increase capacity while keeping costs in check may make it difficult for SSDs to scale as a viable technology for some applications.
Not good news, specially for those thinking about using the for critical work, like database servers.
Read full research
here (in English). Short article in portuguse
here.
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce V2.5.0 of FB TraceManager, a specialized tool to continuously monitor your Firebird database via the Firebird 2.5 Trace API.
More information on the new release is available here: http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20120215 |
Beside the Trace API stuff, V2.5.0 now adds per-database monitoring including:
In combination with the Trace API, this is a powerful and integrated toolset to optimize and tune your Firebird server, database and client application even further.
Read more about per-database monitoring here:
http://www.upscene.com/documentation/fbtm2/database_monitoring.htm
More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm
The full product documentation is also available online:
http://www.upscene.com/documentation/fbtm2/index.html
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool: "Database Workbench 4.2.1 Pro". This release includes the FREE Lite versions for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL. For more information, see here. |
For a video explaining how to debug a Firebird Stored Procedure,
click here.
Click here for the full list of changes in v4.2.1
Click here for the full list of changes in v4.2.0
Database Workbench supports:
- Borland InterBase (4.x-XE)
- Firebird (1.x, 2.x)
- MS SQL Server/MSDE (7, 2000, 2005, 2008, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express)
- MySQL 4.x, 5.x
- Oracle Database (8i, 9i, 10g, 11g)
- Sybase SQL Anywhere (9, 10, 11 and 12)
- NexusDB (3.0 and up)
Kitto allows to create
Rich Internet Applications based on a data model that can be mapped onto any database. The client-side part uses
ExtJS (through the ExtPascal library) to create a fully
AJAX application, allowing you to build standard and advanced data-manipulating forms in a fraction of the time.
Kitto is aimed at
Delphi developers that need to create web application without delving into the intricacies of HTML, CSS, Javascript or learning to use a particular library such as ExtJS, yet it allows access to the bare metal if required.
Kitto includes a
database-agnostic data-access layer, allowing to create applications that work on any database engine and port applications between database engines.
A Kitto application is described in a set of easily maintained
YAML files, keeping definitions abstract and declarative and allowing for future extensions. Business rules are enforced either declaratively or through small javascript fragments on the client, or in Delphi code on the server.
Kitto was designed by Nando Dessena and its development is sponsored by
Ethea, which uses Kitto for internal development projects and client work and provides Kitto-related tools, support and development services.
Start
here for further information.
The
getting started guide can be tested with Firebird and Delphi
Lester created a port for
piwik 1.6, that can be downloaded at following url:
http://lsces.co.uk/hg/piwik/archive/FBPort.tar.gz
His progress can be tracked on
firebird-php list (you can give the feedback on the same thread.
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Sync 12.2, a powerful and easy-to-use tool for Firebird database contents comparison and synchronization.
Major features of the new version include comparison of database views and subsets of data, automatic checking of mappings, and exporting the comparison results to 18 file formats including Excel and HTML. There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc). Read full press-release.
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The Document Foundation
announces LibreOffice 3.5, the third major release of “the best free office suite ever”, which shows to end users the improvements derived from the development strategy adopted since September 2010.
LibreOffice 3.5 derives from the combined effort of full time hackers
— the largest group of experienced OOo code developers
— and volunteer hackers, coordinated by the Engineering Steering Committee.
Related to Firebird there is the
ODBC linux 64 bug killed.
Also the
db with no bool support (Firebird 2.5) issue is done.
Quote of the day is via this
thread on Firebird Java Group:
It would be good if Jaybird 2.3 could be used with embedded and OpenOffice / LibreOffice because the feature set in Firebird is obviously much, much greater than HSQL or the proposed SQLite replacement.
The ability to create a zeroconf, transportable data file is of interest to me (along with using iReport to generate printouts from that file).
OT: Personally I think that Jaybird / Firebird / Firebird embedded is the way to go for LibreOffice instead of the very limited SQLite. The ability to upscale from a single file application to a client/server one is a killer.
Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2216 binary snapshots for
Debian Sid and
Ubuntu Oneiric are ready to install and test. Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on
flamerobin-devel list.
We run Firebird to power larger systems (for 12 government agencies and 3 banks). It has approximately 100000 end users multiplexed through 2500 (max) pooled connections. Here is the snapshot of nearly idle system at night:
top - 03:20:39 up 10 days, 8:39, 7 users, load average: 2.08, 1.87, 2.15
Tasks: 1732 total, 1 running, 1730 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.9%us, 4.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 83.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 529177288k total, 378587600k used, 150589688k free, 761532k buffers
Swap: 1073741816k total, 130612k used, 1073611204k free, 333281232k cached
[root mvv bin]# ps aux | grep -c rdb_inet_server
719
mount: /dev/fiob on /mnt/db type ext2 (rw,noatime)
df -h:
/dev/fiob 587G 423G 135G 76% /mnt/db
Chipsets that can handle
2 TB of RAM and 8 CPU sockets (<=80 cores, <=160 threads) are the largest "commodity" type hardware available now. These are the largest systems we worked on. 8 GB of lock manager space per database should be just enough for them. With the allocation error check in place we'll have this problem solved for the next year or two until larger systems become common.
For those who like classic desktop Firebird database applications and wxPerl, the first public release of Tpda3 is out.
Shirin Lee posted a job:
Phacil is seeking a Project Manager that has experience with Firebird in Arlington, VA. To learn more and check this job post.
I almost wanted to say that this is spam on the group but at a second look saw the list of interesting customers for The Company also with a little help from google i found the job post
Phacil has an anticipated need for a Project Manager (Senior) for an important government customer in Sterling or Arlington, VA.
Clearance Requirements
Must have at least a Secret clearance
Scope
Experience project managing large IT projects including cost, schedule and performance management is required. Experience managing the execution of project tasks, Risk Management, Quality Control (QCP) and communication management are required.
Qualifications
Must have previous Task Manager/Project Manager experience of at least 5 years
Bachelor’s Degree with Masters Preferred in Computer Science or Information Technology
PMP highly preferred
Experience managing the system administration, training and support for the Firebird database management system is required. Conducted trainings on FIREBIRD system with users.
Experience with PMP PMBOK/PDCA, ITIL v3 foundations service delivery a plus Firebird database software and tools technology experience required
Logikal Solutions is proud to announce “
The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases” has been released in EPUB format as part of “The Minimum You Need to Know” book series. Currently it is available at Barnes & Nobel as well as Kobo. It should also be available
shortly at the Sony eBook store.
Barnes & Nobel
Kobo
This book shows the nitty-gritty of developing with Qt using PostgreSQL,
Firebird, and SQLite databases. It also shows the developer how to create BOTH console and GUI Qt applications. Readers are shown how to do development with Qt Designer, Qt Creator, QDevelop, Monkey Studio, and Eclipse under KUbuntu. Like most of the titles in this series this book attempts to teach by repeatedly developing the same application with each new tool set so developers who understand one or only "some" of a given tool set can quickly come up to speed by looking at the differences each tool forces on the application.
Qt is an amazing application framework currently owned and supported by Nokia. While there are many books available discussing various aspects of the GUI, most give at most a single chapter to database access. This book is designed to cover that topic in depth. The vast majority of applications written today will need to communicate with a database in some fashion, even if it is just to store user entered data locally. Currently there are no books on the market providing any significant quantity of information about how to do it are more importantly just how different your application will be for each database engine.
"The Minimum You Need to Know" is an award winning technical book series written by Roland Hughes and published by Logikal Solutions. Please visit
The Minimum You Need to Know for information about other titles in this technical book series.
FBDataGuard was just updated to the version 2.7. Download it from your IBSurgeon Deploy Center account or get trial version from
the product page.
Please schedule upgrade of your production system (please do upgrade carefully and plan all your actions).
Changes in version 2.7 include support for modern browsers in FBDataGuard web-console, fixed bugs and improved performance.
FBDataGuard is intended to be automatic maintainer and administrator assistant for important Firebird databases, especially at remote locations and being bundled with Firebird-based software.
FBDataGuard is designed to provide stability and confidence in business-critical Firebird databases:
- prevent outages and corruptions,
- reduce downtime and performance problems,
- monitor database health and automate maintenance,
- provide alerts and recommendations.
Also it can be used for advanced database recovery of protected database in case of heavy corruption (e.g., caused by hardware failure).
New Firebird case study from wobe-systems GmbH, German software development house for the graphics industry.
"...A production database of 100 GB and more containing BLOBs is nothing unusual at our customers sites..."
".. Firebird SQL server is at the core of our system helping our customers swift and safely through their daily work. Equipped with near zero administration and ample possibilities of scalability Firebird SQL database offers an operational reliability that does meet the requirements of industrial and time critical applications."
Read full article
here.
This is mostly bugfix release. The main notable difference is that now FDB
works on Windows (0.7.0 wasn't) and is operational "enough" to power the Firebird QA tools. So the forthcoming
Firebird 2.0.7 release (
scheduled for February) will be tested using FDB.
Jiri Cincura was recently interviewed for InfoQ article
— Q&A with Jiri Cincura of the Firebird Database Project. We touched Firebird, ADO.NET, O/RMs, Entity Framework etc. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Update: The article seems to be retracted for the moment. Don't panic we asked why and
investigate the cause (see the comments section).
Here is the full text from Google cache
We recently spoke with Jiri Cincura of the
Firebird database project.
InfoQ: Can you tell us briefly about yourself and your role in creating the ADO.NET provider for Firebird?
Jiri: Currently I'm project lead for the ADO.NET provider for Firebird project. And actually only one active right now. I'm doing majority of development (although there are some worth contributions) and all the stuff around, like testing, releases, issue tracker watching, replying in mailing list etc.
InfoQ: And for the benefit of our readers who are unfamiliar with it, who would you describe Firebird?
Jiri: Firebird is a fully featured RDBMS, with small footprint and zero maintenance. It supports all standard features you'd expect - stored procedures, triggers, views, UDFs, monitoring, online (remote) backup/restore etc. There's also so called Embedded version, that just one main DLL and few supporting it, without install or need to copy something somewhere. You'll just reference this DLL and you have all the features of standalone (network) Firebird in your application. And of course, whole Firebird is completely free (and open source).
InfoQ: In the SQL Server world we have to deal with a serious trade-off. If you choose to use the embedded version, SQL Server Compact, then you lose the ability to use a lot of features. Is there any sort of tradeoff like that for Firebird or do you really get access to the whole feature set either way?
Jiri: Absolutely not. Firebird Embedded is fully featured as "big" server. It's even built from same sources, only with different output (DLL file). You can use everything Firebird offers. And not only that. Migration is super easy. You'll just take the database file and put it to some place where server can access it and you're done.
InfoQ: So what's involved in writing a ADO.NET provider?
Jiri: It's actually pretty simple. You're fixing bug, moving with features as Firebird server moves further and improving stability and code itself. Cleanup, refactoring. With all that you're trying to keep backward compatibility and not introduce some breaking changes. And on the other hand you're moving along with .NET and ADO.NET (i.e. Entity Framework) world and other data access providers and components.
InfoQ: DId you also work on the Entity Framework provider? If so, what's your opinion of the ORM?
Jiri: Yes I did. I worker on provider since early versions around 2007. I believe Firebird was first 3rd party ADO.NET provider to have working Entity Framework support (and it's open source). I think Entity Framework is good ORM, comparable to others, like LLBLGen Pro or NHibernate. It's not here that long but still very good. I don't think anybody can say i.e. NHibernate is best because ... Every project needs something more and something less. And every ORM (including Entity Framework) has strong points and places where there's room for improvement.
InfoQ: What areas in particular do you think the .NET-based ORMs need to improve upon?
Jiri: There's mismatch between relational world and OOP world, even if you believe ORMs are hiding it, it's there. For simple small applications, this is not a problem. But for a big applications, the ORM needs to be flexible enough to allow really experienced developer hook in and in rare cases when performance is critical or special needs are placed in front of him/her allow to do it own way without creating huge disruption in your code.
InfoQ: If you had more resources available to you (i..e. developers, hardware, etc), what would you like to do with Firebird and .NET that you can't do right now?
Jiri: Provide more seamless experience for .NET developers using Firebird and improve codebase. Move further faster and provide more features, both from Firebird world and (ADO).NET world.
The flamerobin version 0.9.3
— revision 2212 is now in published in
debian sid.
The package is now in ubuntu
oneiric ppa.
To install it use
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapopa/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flamerobin
or if you have already installed
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.
The new driver
fdb is branched in
github for Python 3.x (work in progress).
You can check the progress by following
this thread on firebird-python list and
here is another one.
New
snapshot builds (SVN revision 2210) for Windows 32 and 64 bits are available on SF.net.
Feedback on field and text delimiter settings for save grid data as CSV file command would be especially welcome.
Thanks
Michael Hieke
There is a
new poll on linkedin about the Firebird versions.
I did some comparitions selecting 1000, 10000 and 100000 with Ruby Fb gem, Delphi Fibplus and the FB .NET driver, here is the result:
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ROWS
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RUBY
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DELPHI
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.NET
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1000
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0.12
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0.47
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0.09
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10000
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0.94
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0.48
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0.53
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100000
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10.95
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3.79
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5.53
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The results are on milliseconds, the table is from a production database with 40 fields and about 3 million records, as you can see, native code is still the king, .NET result are quite good, but Ruby is quite dissapointing handling lots of data.
IBSurgeon DBInfo is designed to visualize internal structure's statistics, so administrators or developers can view how much data, index, blob or other kind of information your Firebird or InterBase database stores.
DBInfo is a free tool, download it now:
http://ib-aid.com/products/firebird_interbase/monitoring/dbinfo
Video uploaded to FirebirdSQL channel on Youtube.
Marco Cantu
speaks about best practices and approaches to develop Firebird and Delphi applications with dbExpress framework.
FBClone v2.1.4 is
released.This is a "bugfix release" (field "XxX" not found when used against case sensitive databases.)
FBClone can clone a Firebird database in one shot (instead of backup/restore cycle) and pump data from one database to another with the same structure, it handles metadata / data charset conversion and may be useful to ease database owner change process or to migrate a database between two different firebird versions (eg. 2.1 -> 1.5)
This post will show an example of using an embedded firebird database in .NET/C# projects.
Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5.1 from FreeBSD 9 Ports and creating your first test database; also we show you how to install Flamerobin GUI (administration tool) and the PHP driver for it. This was tested on fresh FreeBSD 9 on a kvm-linux virtual machine. Download a compressed snapshot of the Ports Collection into /var/db/portsnap.
# portsnap fetch
Or update it. If you are running Portsnap for the first time, extract the snapshot into /usr/ports:
# portsnap extract
If you already have a populated /usr/ports directory and you are just updating, run the following command instead:
# portsnap update
Enter firebird server ports directory:
# cd /usr/ports/databases/firebird25-server
Compile and install firebird server:
# make -DPACKAGE_BUILDING
# make install
Enable it by adding
firebird_enable="YES"
in /etc/rc.conf.
Start it with:
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/firebird start
logs and security2.fdb seems to be in /var/db/firebird.
# /usr/local/bin/isql-fb
To create a new database:
SQL> create database "tmp/first_database.fdb;
SQL> connect "/tmp/first_database.fdb" ;
Commit current transaction (y/n)?y
Committing.
Database: "/tmp/first_database.fdb"
SQL>
If you want to create a simple table then insert 1-2 rows and select from it; here is one example:
SQL> CREATE TABLE TEST (ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, NAME VARCHAR(20));
SQL> show tables;
TEST
SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (1, 'John');
SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (2, 'Joe');
SQL> select * from test;
ID NAME
============ ====================
1 John 2 Joe
To quit the isql-fb console, type quit:
SQL> quit
CON>;
For a good open source GUI admin tool you might check the flamerobin administration tool included in ports repository; it can be installed by a simple:
# cd /usr/ports/databases/flamerobin/ && make install clean
To use firebird with php, you will need the php5 driver:
# cd /usr/ports/databases/php5-interbase/ && make install clean
You can choose to compile php with apache support (I have chosen cli, cgi , and apache support); check it if is enabled with:
# /usr/local/bin/php -m
IBSurgeon Log Viewer is designed to facilitate viewing and analyzing long Firebird and InterBase logs. Many Firebird and Interbase developers and administrators do not pay enough attention to the contents of firebird.log (interbase.log), though there is a lot of useful information, which can help to find and resolve various issues with Firebird/InterBase databases.
Originally Log Viewer was IBSurgeon's internal application, which helped to quickly navigate through very long Firebird and InterBase logs, and in version 2.0 it became mature enough to be released for the community.
Download free version from IBSurgeon's site.
Install it and open server’s log (usually it's in C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_n_n\ folder). There are also descriptions for log entries shipped with IBSurgeon Log Viewer:
Feel free to contact
IBSurgeon Support if you see suspicious messages in your logs. Don't forget to attach log to the message!
Just updated #php-pdo-firebird package in #ArchLinux User Repo to connect to @FirebirdSQL from PHP 5.3.9. #Firebird http://t.co/XyeaRJE0
If you find this package useful and want to have it in the community repository, please Vote Up!
Question of the day on Stack Overflow is:
How to make an efficient check constraint for an e-mail field in Firebird (if field value not null)?
A question came to me last week. It was simple. Given the column I’d like to query all tables in database for this column (with some condition) and get values back. It was on
Firebird so I jumped into system tables and generated query on the fly in
execute block (aka anonymous
stored procedure).
Read
the rest on Jiri Cicura blog.
This article shows how to use Data Abstract for .NET and Firebird Embedded together (and that it’s no effort at all to do this). All you need is to deploy the needed dll’s and to remember about the x86/x64 compatibility caveat.
PHP 5.3.9 is
released.
Here are the relevant PDO Firebird
changes included.
PDO Firebird:
- Fixed bug #48877 ("bindValue" and "bindParam" do not work for PDO Firebird).
- Fixed bug #47415 (PDO_Firebird segfaults when passing lowercased column name to bindColumn).
- Fixed bug #53280 (PDO_Firebird segfaults if query column count less than param count).
It was just released the first webinar video from the Mind the Bird campaign. The webinar is about the history of Interbase and Firebird, by Ann Harrison.
firebird2.5 (2.5.2~svn+53775.ds4-1) package is now in
debian testing. You can check the list of bugs fixed for firebird 2.5.2 (not yet released) in the
tracker.
Here is the list of
debian changes and fixes:
- Snapshot from upstream's 2.5 branch, revision 53775
- control: note -doc doesn't contain release notes (LP#908963)
- control: change transitional 2.5-dev package to oldlibs/extra
- control: -common package is arch:all the last arch-specific bit, ibutil was moved to -server-common
- -classic.init: provide a status option
- control: 2.5-dev, -classic-common: depend on the same (source) version of -common-doc
This document states the current development activities of the project and establishes the estimated release schedule for the foreseeable future. It's getting periodically updated in order to be in line with the reality.
The project's development resources are currently dedicated to the v2.5 and v3.0 versions, with v2.0 and v2.1 versions being maintained on the regular basis.
As notified earlier, the v1.5.x series is not being released anymore. Firebird 1.5.6 was the last release of that series officially published by the project. However, its codebase may still collect some bugfixes occasionally backported from the newer versions. Any subsequent binary releases, should they be necessary, would be available from
IBPhoenix on a commercial basis.
Please pay attention that the v2.0.x series celebrates its sixth anniversary this year. So far the project maintenance practice was to discontinue support for the release series older than five years. Thus please be prepared that the next point release (v2.0.7) could be the last one published by the project in that series.
For more details about the anticipated releases,
read on.
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird PHP Generator 11.12, a frontend to generate feature-rich CRUD web applications for your Firebird database. The software comes in both Freeware and Professional editions.
New version introduces security enhancements, powerful data export features, new insertion and editing modes, improved project management and a lot of other new features. There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc). Read full press-release.
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Hi all,
I'm going to start working on the DML chapter for the 2.5
Language Reference. Hope we can do some good work in 2012.
Happy New Year every one!
Free Pascal Compiler 2.6.0 has been released and adds many post-Delphi 7 language features and adds or improves the support for various platforms also there are Firebird
related fixes to the Database Components.
firebird2.5 (2.5.2~svn+53775.ds4-1) package is now in
debian unstable.
Here is the list of debian changes and fixes
- Snapshot from upstream's 2.5 branch, revision 53775
- control: note -doc doesn't contain release notes (LP#908963)
- control: change transitional 2.5-dev package to oldlibs/extra
- control: -common package is arch:all the last arch-specific bit, ibutil was moved to -server-common
- -classic.init: provide a status option
- control: 2.5-dev, -classic-common: depend on the same (source) version of -common-doc
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