Hello one more time. As I have said early, MSSQL processes TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE datatype using DBTIMESTAMPOFFSET structure OLE DB. Today I have checked it again. It is so really. By default IBProvider publishes TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE as text but you can change this behavior using dbtimestamp_with_tz_rules property. That I did in this […]
Hello. If you have a problem with long file path while the compilation of project in Visual Studio, look at this trick that help me from time to time: [System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath(‘…’) converts relative path into absolute and this operation can significantly reduce the final string of file path. Every time when it helps me, I say […]
The load test of IBProvider v5.30 with FB4 lasted more than two weeks and ended today. No problems were detected. Firebird v4.0.3.2950 state. Ok. Let’s start the next tests.
When I started adding the support of a new FB4 datatype TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, I did a small test with MSSQL 2008, where this datatype is presented as datetimeoffset: It was a couple months ago. Today it was needed to read these records through MSSQL OLE DB provider (MSOLEDBSQL) to check this data. Provider […]
Hello All. The new example was added at IBProvider website — «Resetting the session settings before reusing a connection (C#, FB4)». This examples demonstrates an implicit usage of the new magic FB4 feature — «ALTER SESSION RESET». It allows to implement the true connection pool at last. Both installers (IBProvider Trial and ADO.NET provider) were […]
Hello All. The new trial [5.30.0.42557] provides the support for the new FB4 datatypes — DECFLOAT16 and DECFLOAT34. There is supported simple columns and columns with arrays. Currently, IBProvider maps these types to string datatype (WSTR). I think, in the future the provider will provide other, native ways for work with these datatypes.
Hello Everyone. I have just gotten the some of results about load test IBP with FB4 those can be analyzed and compared. In short, the situation is the same as for FB3. Test with using built-in Firebird client Test with using fbclient.dll The errors in first case (built-in client) are linked with new unsupported FB4 […]
Hello All, The new build of IBProvider Trial [42372] provides the completed support of INT128 and NUMERIC that is based on INT128. You can use these types for simple values and, of course, for values with arrays. There were created and passed lots of different tests, so I hope am sure that all is OK. […]
Hello Everyone. The new IBProvider Trial [build 42030] includes the initial support for Firebird v4. The primary limitation: this version is not able to read and write values with new datatypes (INT128, DECFLOATxx, TIME/TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE) but you can read the metadata of these things. You can connect to FB4 through fbclient.dll and directly […]
Hello All. New trial build contains an improvement for the built-in Firebird client. It allows to use the protocol v12 for work with FB3. There were problems with BOOLEAN datatype and BLOB. You can define the used network protocol through the initialization property «remote:protocol». I hope, the new version of IBProvider will be released within […]
