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Firebird 2.1.0 (Windows Build)
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*** Alpha 1 ***
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o Introduction
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o Intended Users
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o Features in this release (all platforms)
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o Bugs fixed in this release
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o Installation
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o Reporting Bugs
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Introduction
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============
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Welcome to the first Alpha release of Firebird 2.1
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Intended Users
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This alpha release is intended for experienced Firebird
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users. It has not been thoroughly tested and new
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features are only sparsely documented. Do not use this
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release in a production environment.
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Features in this release
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Apart from numerous bug fixes there are several major
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new features in this release. In no particular order
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they are:
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o Text blob compatibility with varchars
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o Database Triggers (connect, disconnect)
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o Transaction Triggers (start/commit/rollback)
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o Use of domains for Trigger/SP variable definition
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o Numerous monitoring facilities available via
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SQL statements
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o Global temporary tables
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o Query termination
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o Unicode collations
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o MERGE and UPDATE or INSERT statements
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o Support for chinese characters via GBK
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o Common table expressions
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o Aggregate concatenation function
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o Character set TIS620
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o 64-bit builds for Windows
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There are also many more enhancements. You can browse
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a summary of changes via the bug tracker here:
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http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&styleName=Html&version=10041
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Improvements and New features are listed after the
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bug fixes.
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Full documentation is not yet available. (This is
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by design.) Full feature freeze will only occur when
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we go to beta. In the meantime, the doc directory and
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the doc\sql.extensions directory have some raw
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documentation on how to use some of the new features.
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Installation
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============
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A binary installer will not be available before beta 1.
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Please use the install_<server>.bat batch file to
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install this package. There is more info on
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manual installation in doc\install_windows_manually.txt
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Reporting Bugs
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Before you report a bug:
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o Check you know how Firebird works.
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Maybe it is not a bug at all.
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o Perhaps some has already reported this? Browse
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existing bug reports here:
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http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/secure/BrowseProject.jspa
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o If in doubt why not discuss the problem on the
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Firebird-devel list? You can subscribe here:
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
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and the list is viewable via a newsgroup interface
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here:
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news://news.atkin.com/
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Please don't use the Firebird-devel list for technical
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support unless the question specifically relates to a
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new feature in Firebird 2.1
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Happy Testing!
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From the Firebird team.
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