Firebird

Hello! We present new personal license for 32-bit IBProvider called «One Time Personal License (32-bit)». The new license is meant for all those who would like to create small programs for Firebird and InterBase for WIN32 and .NET platforms. This is ... [More] the same full-featured 32-bit provider (prof and lite editions) that is included into licenses for developers and MS SQL. [Less]

Though I have extensive database application development experience, I do not consider myself an expert with the Firebird Database Engine to any degree.  The following article is completely based upon observations and experiences during my attempts ... [More] to learn and understand this highly capable engine.  As a result, if there are misunderstandings or mistakes I have promoted in my writing, please [Less]

Hello everyone! We are glad to announce the new update of IBProvider — v3.50. http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_180508.html Main feature of this release — elimination of very old restrictions of our OLE DB provider. Common list of changes: Better ... [More] support of MS SQL Support of data rereading for updatable sets Improved error handling Specific data processing errors fixed Support of FB 3.0.4 added [Less]

Firebird 3.0.3 Package is uploaded into Firebird 3.0.x ppa. There are packages for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) , 16.04 (Xenial) Firebird 3.0.3 changes are available in the release notes     Work in progress for 14.04 (Trusty).

Read the new white paper “Authentication in Firebird” from IBPhoenix: Developments introduced in Firebird 3 provide many options for authenticating users attempting to attach to a database. No longer is authentication restricted to a single method: ... [More] the methods available are determined by the plug-in authentication modules configured in the global and/or database config files. Also, there are many interesting articles in Documentation area of IBPhoenix website. [Less]

Since Firebird 3 was released, users have sometimes been confused about the “missing” kits for Firebird embedded. We hope this article will demystify the issue and help developers migrating older embedded applications to Firebird 3 and higher. Read the new white paper by Helen Borrie, Embedded Server in Firebird 3.

Database .NET 24.8 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool, With it you can easily edit and manage your Firebird database files. http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm (Change Log) dbMigration .NET 8.4 is a simple ... [More] , easy and intuitive multiple database migration and data synchronization tool, With it you can easily migrate schema and data to Firebird and vice versa. http://fishcodelib.com/DBMigration.htm (Change [Less]

The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 3.0.4. This release of Jaybird introduces two new features: wire protocol encryption and database encryption callback support. Jaybird 3.0.4 contains the following fixes and changes: ... [More] – New feature: Back-ported wire encryption support from Jaybird 4 (JDBC-415) – Fixed: Native/embedded (JNA) connections truncate varchars to length 255 on read [Less]

Sourceforge Community Choice Project of the Month for May is Firebird The voters have spoken! Your "Community Choice" Project of the Month for May is… Firebird! https://t.co/wirK9SId2Z #potm #opensource #FOSS #Firebird — SourceForge (@sourceforge) May 1, 2018

FDB Python driver for Firebird v2.0 is available for download. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb IMPORTANT: This is initial release of new “SweetBitter” driver generation. During this (v2) generation FDB driver will undergo a transition from ... [More] development centered around Python 2.7 / Firebird 2.x to development centered around Python 3 / Firebird 3. There are some backward incompatible changes between v2 and v1 generation, [Less]