Martijn Tonies e-mailed me to inform me of the release of Database Workbench Lite for InterBase. It’s a free version of Database Workbench, a full-featured administration tool for InterBase and other database servers. You can compare the "lite" and "professional" feature sets here. Upscene had also just released version 3.2 of Database Workbench Professional.
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I am once again organizing vendor participation for the InterBase Partner DVD. If your company produces a tool, application, component set, etc. which explicitly supports InterBase, the Partner DVD is one of the best ways to ensure that your software is available to anyone who purchases InterBase. You can include a full version, a trial, [...]
This tells me that ALTER DATABASE ADD ADMIN OPTION does not work unless the ODS is the latest version available for the current server version. I wish the error message was better, but at least the problem is easy to fix.
InterBase seems to have a bug in checking dependencies when you alter the arguments to a procedure which is referenced by a trigger. It’s easy to work around, though.
The Embarcadero deal seems, from my outsider’s point of view, to be a great deal for CodeGear and for Embarcadero. There are so many different ways that the two companies’ products can work together that it just makes a great deal of sense to me. It’s less clear to me how it makes sense [...]
An ADO.NET 2.0 driver for InterBase is available for free download from the IB registered users page. Delphi users already have this; you only need it if you want to connect to IB from a .NET language other than Delphi and you don’t already own Delphi/RAD Studio.
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The developer edition of InterBase for Mac have been updated to support Tiger and Leopard.
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Here’s yet another guy with more good ideas on how to version database metadata changes. Unfortunately, the ideal method of database metadata versioning remains to be discovered. The ideas discussed in K. Scott Allen’s series are good from a version control point of view, but they will have serious, negative performance implications in [...]
I wrote an article on creating InterBase User-Defined Functions in Delphi eons ago, and in it I suggest using the IBX declarations of the IB API calls when you need them. Since then, IBX has undergone internal changes to allow it to use some new features of IB, so the suggested syntax requires some revision. [...]
Someone asked in the newsgroups for a comparison between InterBase and Blackfish SQL. So off the top of my head:
Feature
Blackfish SQL
InterBase
Connectivity
ADO.NET 2.0, JDBC, dbExpress
ADO.NET 1.1 and 2.0, JDBC (type 4), dbExpress, ODBC, native API, embedded SQL, OLE-DB via third parties
Data recovery features
Incremental backup with failover on Java platform only. Crash recovery via transaction log on [...]
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