Evans Data Survey mentions Firebird
You can vote to Firebird in the new Evans Data Survey about Open Source Development:
http://surveys.evansdata.com/survey.php?ID=EDC_OSS_2010_1
Month: August 2010
#FirebirdConfig for #Firebird returns now with new Version and new wepages in English and Spanish
Here is the new version (0.2.0.39) for FirebirdConfig and there are new webpages for it in English and Spanish
Via twitter JhonnySuarezG
#FirebirdConfig for #Firebird in english http://is.gd/e6fdT #mindthebird
FbTransaction changes in Firebird #DotNet Provider to support tables locking
Firebird has a feature allowing you to specify tables you want to lock (read or write and exclusive/protected/shared) when starting transaction so now is proper implemented in .net provider snapshots
Connecting to a Firebird database from a VB.net 2008 web application
There’s a couple of posts related to connecting to a Firebird database from an asp.net 2008 web application that are helpful but not complete
Here is the detailed way with screenshots but is using ODBC .
Third Russian Firebird Conference
3d Russian Firebird Conference will take place in Moscow, September 29, 2010. The conference will be devoted to the new versions of Firebird, as well as to Firebird best practices in maintenance and development, with special focus on big Firebird databases.
Special speakers at conference: Phillipe Makowski, President of Firebird Foundation, Firebird developers team: Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff.
Registration (in Russian): http://ibase.ru/conf2010/
Firebird’s Big Databases Presentation (in English)
At FDD’2010 Dmitry Kuzmenko has presented 2 presentations – the first one about approach to maintain big databases (50-400Gb) in the right way and the second is about restore speed tests.
Reflections on Perl and DBI from an Early Contributor
The name Buzz Moschetti probably isn’t familiar to you. Buzz was the author of the Perl 4 database for Interbase known as Interperl.
Back in those days Perl 5 was barely a twinkle in Larry’s eye and database interfaces for Perl 4 required building a custom perl binary.
http://blog.timbunce.org/2010/07/08/reflections-on-perl-and-dbi-from-an-early-contributor/
ps: Interabase & Firebird contributed stable api not only in the c and Delphi/Lazarus world but also in the Perl one with one of the first best drivers
Win 1 year license of Dataguard
IBSurgeon is offering an one year license of FB Dataguard for free to anyone participating in the MindTheBird campaign. Check the details here.
Offer valid until 10/August/2010.
DDL Execution Architecture
Adriano posted about DDL execution artchitecture, its flaws and new improvements for FB 3.
Here I’m going to explain how Firebird DDL commands works in the architecture, why it stops innovation and how it is supposed to work in Firebird 3.0.
DDL in FB works more or less like DML, so first a briefly explanation of how DML works. When a DML command is prepared, it starts in the parser constructing a tree of nodes. That nodes are all a single pointer type, used for all node types and others usages (like storing constants). A node have a list of child nodes.
Real full post here.
Firebird 10th anniversary. How I came to it.
Posted By Adriano dos Santos Fernandes:
July 31th, 2010. Today Firebird completes its 10th anniversary. The Firebird website has a set of history documents about how that started. It’s something you must read if you’re interested in Firebird.
I’m sometimes asked about how I became one of its team members. So I’m going to tell something about this.