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August 2011
Monthly Archive
firebirdsql.com -> firebirdsql.org
Posted by Cantu on 29 Aug 2011 12:22 pm. Filed under General news.
Loading ...#NodeJS Firebird #Sql extension tested with latest stable node v0.4.11
Posted by mariuz on 25 Aug 2011 5:56 pm. Filed under General news.
ikoniAlso now is added a new example using deferred.js submodule
Firebird 2.5.1 RC1 is out!
Posted by Cantu on 24 Aug 2011 9:09 pm. Filed under Firebird Releases.
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that the v.2.5.1 release candidate kits for Linux and Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are ready for testing. MacOSX kits are delayed by a problem with MacOSX 10.7 (Lion) but should appear soon. Enjoy! and please report bugs or regressions to the firebird-devel list.
(9 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)Firebird 2.5.1 RC1 packages are ready.
Posted by mariuz on 24 Aug 2011 5:09 am. Filed under Developer News , Firebird Releases.
Firebird 2.5.1 RC1 packages are ready. Links will appear in official site soon.
News via Carlos H. Cantu
You Don’t need CPUAffinity, nBackup, shadow and multifile databases
Posted by mariuz on 24 Aug 2011 4:49 am. Filed under General news.
Right now at www.firebirdnews.org you can see (at the right side) the survey about Firebird features in production environment.
Some answers look like dangerous signals, especially for those who run big Firebird databases.
Which of the following FB features you use in production environments?
- None of the above (49%, 139 Votes)
- CPUAffinity parameter (27%, 77 Votes)
- nBackup (24%, 67 Votes)
- Shadow (13%, 37 Votes)
- Multifile DB (11%, 31 Votes)
- Redirection parameter(info) (4%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 284
So, what’s wrong with these answers?
Here is the response on Firebird Surgeon
FireBase became a Bronze sponsor of Firebird Foundation
Posted by mariuz on 22 Aug 2011 4:58 pm. Filed under General news.
News via Carlos H. Cantu :
A FireBase tornou-se patrocinadora Bronze do Firebird.
Via this announcement:
From now on, the FireBase / WarmBoot becomes Bronze sponsor of Firebird. Although for years we have contributed with donations, associations, etc.. we believe it is important to the project to have a greater commitment and stability financiary . Go Firebird!
Migration from Firebird 1.5 to 2.5: 75Gb database, 564 tables, 5000+ procedures
Posted by mariuz on 22 Aug 2011 2:56 pm. Filed under General news.
Nataly Polyanskaya added this paper on slideshare : Migration from Firebird 1.5 to 2.5: 75Gb database, 564 tables, 5000+ procedures, which is working 24×7
Firebird migration: from Firebird 1.5 to Firebird 2.5
ps:Via ibsurgeon tweet
Firebird migration: from Firebird 1.5 to Firebird 2.5
ps:Via ibsurgeon tweet
The new version of IBProvider 3.9 is delivered with the warranty(!) of stable performance within systems operating around the clock
Posted by Andrew Merkulov on 22 Aug 2011 2:01 pm. Filed under General news , Technical Articles , Tools & Products releases , Uncategorized.
Do you trust your access components for Firebird as much as to allow them to be active without monitoring within software systems operating around the clock?
Know why IBProvider can give the warranty(!) of stable performance here: Firebird driver performance
Change that Make #Linux build faster
Posted by mariuz on 22 Aug 2011 6:06 am. Filed under Developer News.
иконографияIt seems the usage of databases with ForcedWrites=ON in ext4 filesystems mounted with barriers=1 (default) is very slow.
This change decreased build time in my machine from 2m41s to 1m21s.
firebirdsql 0.4.4: Firebird #RDBMS bindings for #python released
Posted by mariuz on 20 Aug 2011 4:55 am. Filed under Tools & Products releases.
иконописNew version adds commit and rollback retain and fixes parsing params issue under Python3 :
(in params_to_blr if t == str or t == unicode: NameError: global name ‘unicode’ is not defined)
Other minor changes are listed on github.
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