Sydney Meeting – January 2012
January 2012
Monitoring your Firebird database with FBTraceManager – Thomas Steinmaurer
This month Thomas Steinmaurer will join us from Austria via GotoMeeting to talk about the Firebird trace API, which was introduced in Firebird 2.5 (see also here). This trace API is the base for Thomas’ FB TraceManager.… Continue reading ›
Sydney Meeting – October 2010
October 2010
Introduction to the Virtual Treeview component – Colin Johnsun
The Virtual Treeview is an open-source Treeview component for Delphi. It is an alternative to the TTreeView component that is already available in the VCL. This short presentation will cover the design principles behind the component as well as the basic steps of setting up and using the Virtual Treeview in your Delphi project.… Continue reading ›
Sydney Meeting – June 2008
June 2008
What’s new in Firebird 2.1 – Mathias Burbach
In April 2008 the open source Firebird community released version 2.1 of Firebird (see also here). Let’s have a look together what all these new features mean to our day-to-day work:
Database Triggers
Dynamic Recursive Queries
Update or Insert Statement
Treat Text Blobs Like VarChars
Database Monitoring via SQL
… (and many others)
Whilst this presentation aims at explaining most of the new features we also want to discuss their relevance for your current projects.… Continue reading ›
Melbourne Meeting – August 2007
August 2007
The New Firebird Versions – Richard King
Richard had been trialing Firebird 2.0 and 2.1 beta . He told us what was new and what worked.
Data Scrubbing – Roger Connell
Most of the data that needs to be loaded into a new database often already exists but is contained in ad hoc spreadsheets and often in less than ideal formats.… Continue reading ›