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Monday, September 21, 2009

IBExpert 2009 - 2012 Full Download


You develop SQL databases professionally and need an efficient and powerful tool? With IBExpert you have made the right choice. It enables you in just a short space of time to become acquainted with, and achieve a command of the open source database, Firebird, as well as its commercial relative, InterBase®. There are powerful and yet easy-to-learn editors for all essential functions.

Whether you enjoy the control of hand-coding DML or DDL statements or working in a visual editing environment, IBExpert makes it easy to get started and provides you with vital tools to speed and enhance your work.

IBExpert includes many coding tools and features: visual editors for all database objects, an SQL Editor and Script Executive, a Debugger for stored procedures and triggers, a Query Builder, a powerful Database Designer and even its own scripting language, IBEBlock. A list of further IBExpert features can be found here.

IBExpert is the most comprehensive GUI tool for Firebird and InterBase® on the market today.

IBExpert Developer Studio includes the following components:
* IBExpert IDE
* IBExpert Server Tools
* IBExpertWebForms
* IBExpertDemoDB
* IBExpertLive

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Saturday, September 5, 2009

FIBPlus - InterBase and Firebird (Yaffil) components and objects for Delphi, C++ Builder and Kylix!

Delphi, C++ Builder, Kylix компоненты для InterBase и FirebirdFIBPlus is a flexible and easy-to-use library of Delphi, C++ Builder, Kylix components and Ada objects for direct work with InterBase and Firebird (Yaffil). It has been made for developers of database applications. From the very outset we were developing it in accordance with our customers' wishes and requests. Every component, method and property is intended to solve the most common daily tasks.

At present FIBPlus supports Borland Delphi 5-7, BDS 2005-2007 (Turbo Delphi/C++), C++ Builder 5-6, Kylix 3, gnat-3.15p, gnat2006 GPL, Borland InterBase 4.x-2007 and Firebird 1.x-2.x (Yaffil).

FIBPlus Benefits


  • FIBPlus supports all versions of InterBase starting with 4.0, Firebird starting with 1.0 (including Embedded Firebird) and Yaffil.
  • Applications based on FIBPlus do not requre any middleware (BDE, ODBC, etc). You need only standard client software (gds32.dll, fbclient.dll)
  • Compatibility with any standard and third-party data-aware components and report generators (TDBEdit, TDBGrid, TDBChart, ..., InfoPower, DevExpress, EhLib, IntraWeb, ASTA, FastReport, QuickReport, Report Builder,Context Database Designer, TMS Scripter Studio, TMSAdvDBGrid, DataAbstract, Fast Query Builder, Rave Report, Rubicon,Jazmine (JCW)...)
  • Improved performance in comparison with its analogues. In particular, TpFIBDataSet works 30-40% faster than TIBDataSet from IBX, uses 60-70% less memory and works 3-4 times faster with lookup-fields.
  • Components implement built-in mechanismes of network traffic optimization in multiuser applications and applications for low-speed channels (local BLOB-filters, metadata and repeatable query caching, master-detail link optimization, local sorting and filtering, etc).
  • Unique features: field setting repository, query repository, error message repository; centralized handling of exceptions, Unicode support, and many others.
  • We offer you volume discounts on FIBPlus and our customers also have discounts on the products of our partners (FastReport, ShellPlus).
  • Our customers have free updates and new versions during a year after the purchasing and may have 30% or 50% discounts on prolongation/upgrade.

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Firebird with Delphi power

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.

The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000.

Firebird version that I know for the first time is 1.0 version. There're some advantages in using Firebird:

  • The first point that is the installation is quite simple and easy to understand.

  • Second, it already has view, trigger & store procedure that using PSQL (the procedural language that similar with Oracle PL/SQL) , so you do not spend to much time to understand FB.

  • Third, FB is free and there is so much free tools that you can use, like IBExpert Personal Edition (one of the best tool for administrating FB) for free.

  • Fourth, it has an active community that will help your problem at the FB Support mailing list (firebird-support@yahoogroups.com) . The 1.5.x version has more speed than 1.0.x version. Many people ask about the documentation of FB, yes it is still in development, the one that I use is the Interbase documentation and FB release notes , but now there is a book by Helen Borie that explain almost all thing that you want to know about Firebird. FB is perfect for small to midsize company (I suggest you to use 1.5.5 version for better performace), but I think it'll perform better after the 3.0 version that can use multiple processor (SMP). The lack of the 1.5.x version is that it doesn't support derived table and the poor index tree but both will be fixed in 2.x version.

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