Send your testimonial!

Hello All,

There is “Testimonials” section at the test version of new FirebirdSQL site http://www.firebirdtest.com/en/testimonials/

Please devote 5 minutes of your time and write testimonial  – i.e., your
impression about Firebird. Nothing special, just several words about Firebird experience or, even  simpler – short description and link to the enterprise which uses Firebird.

Testimonials are important to demonstrate number of Firebird users and their satisfaction.

After new web-site launch all valid testimonials from the test site will
be moved to production version.

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin

Firebird used at Benguet State University

Inline with our department’s ideologies to use open source systems, I am now using Lazarus as my front end and Firebird as my backend. It’s almost 2 year that i’ve been using firebird (started by ver 2.1.2) and i really find it a great database. I just started with Lazarus and so far, im already getting the hang of it!

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Change made to make Faster restores with gbak

There is a simple change which makes restores much faster, tested with Linux 2.5 embedded restore
Two databases, with two different tables filled with 2,000,000 records:
create table t1 (n1 integer);
create table t10 (n1 integer, n2 integer, n3 integer, …, n10 integer);

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Restore timings:
T1: 14.5s
T10: 20.5s

Improved gbak timings:
T1: 9.7s
T10: 14.7s
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The good news is there is still room to improve the restore speeds , here is Adriano’s tweet:

I do have a slight different method, to insert 100K records in less than 1s over the same localhost method.

Also confirmed by the ending of the article:

PS: There is other restore improvement capable of take down time from
around 8.5s to 0.5s over TCP, but it still requires some analisys.

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