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Would you like to know how to avoid error messages like ‘arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation’? in Firebird DBMS?

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Three Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to the New IBProvider

Fast Report becomes a sponsor of MindTheBird! campaign. The Firebird ambassador, who will attract most of all new members to the MindTheBird! until March 5, will get free Fast Report Studio license. New member should mention referrer name in [...]

I did some minor cleanup/update to the Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes paper. English (html and pdf) and pt-br versions are up to date (version 1.3). Some new info was inserted, dead/broken links removed/fixed.
Updates for the other languages are welcome. If you wanna help, download the html of your native language (or create [...]

Firebird News just got over 500000 total visitors see it in the right side box, we expecting the other half Million this year

The site is now again allowing logins using OpenIDs (Google, Yahoo, etc) accounts. Please report any problem.

I’m pleased to announce new – 2.5.2 – version of ADO.NET provider for Firebird. This release is mainly focused on bugfixing, but also some small internal improvements has been made. We’re still working on new features added to new Firebird server versions and in ADO.NET world.

Upscene Productions extends its product line with a new product:
Firebird Trace Manager
Firebird Trace Manager exposes the Trace and Audit Services, a new feature in the forthcoming Firebird 2.5 release for monitoring database operations continuously, in a very user-friendly way.
The product is available in the following editions:
- Lite Edition (FREELY available)
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
More information [...]

EMS Database Management Solutions is pleased to announce the new version of SQL Manager for InterBase/Firebird – the powerful tool for InterBase/Firebird database administration and development.
EMS SQL Manager for InterBase/Firebird is available and can be downloaded from the download page.

What’s new in SQL Manager for InterBase/Firebird 5.2?

Windows 7 support is added.
Preliminary support of InterBase 2009.
Support [...]

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

Use Unicode Windows API for national alphabet.

Has an improved compatibility with SharePoint Designer.

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 [...]

SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Code Factory 10.2. This tool is intended for developing and executing SQL queries and scripts as well as for data management.

New version comes with advanced Visual Query Builder tool, completely redesigned Data Export and Data Import wizards, and some other new features. Read full press release.
Before Feb [...]

Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 22 has released. Here are the
fix:
4.1.2007.23 / 4.1.2009.23 / 4.1.2010.23 Release on 08 Feb 2010
1. Column Precision of FmtBcd field may return a value if a column is a calculated expression (e.g. SELECT C1-C2 FROM TABLE)
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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang

Igor Wawrzyniak wrote on his blog :
Don’t know if anyone ever needs such a crazy setup, but here it goes. I needed to run a software that requires Firebird 2.x. Nothing special, it’s available in my distribution (Ubuntu). I also had to run another app that needs Firebird 1.5. That’s where it started to get [...]

Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 22 has released. Here are the
fix:
4.1.2007.22 / 4.1.2009.22 / 4.1.2010.22 Release on 25 Jan 2010
1. Fixed Malformed String exception if set a empty string to a VarChar column of character set UTF8.
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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang

adrianosf twiteed
New blog post – Window Functions (part2) – cumulative aggregates – http://bit.ly/8sgfKU.
And here the Hebrew version of the article

Damyan submited the patches to make Firebird 2.5 buildable on FreeBSD.
You can watch Debian building logs here