Timeout records – Feature request

For several years now, I’m yearning for a feature that I think that all SQL based databases that I know are missing, and throw it back to the program side.

The feature I wish to have is a way to set a specific record to be valid for only a known period of time, and when the time is up, I’ll be able to do something.

In this post I’ll try to create some sort of general specification for such feature, and I hope that there will be many comments on this that will benefit everyone, and I hopeful, that they will make the idea better.

Upscene Productions announces “Hopper”, a stored code debugger for Firebird

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the first beta of a new tool:
Hopper – a Stored Code Debugger”

This beta is available for Firebird, after it’s version 1 release, an InterBase Edition will be made available soon, a MySQL Edition will follow later this year.

For more information and a trial download, see the news @ Upscene Productions, pricing information is available.

March 1 Update!
New installer uploaded to fix a problem with missing syntax highlighting files.

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Firebird: choosing an owner for database deployment

Like most users when I started using Firebird I connected using the SYSDBA username. That is the default username for server administration: every server has it.

It looked like a good idea because I did not have to care with users management, but I have now realized that using SYSDBA for database development can cause problems when the database is deployed to the customer’s computer.

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New IBExpert Version 2012.02.21 available

News from ibexpert page
New Data import, Extract metadata and Search metadata features, new IBEBlock functions, and more

New features include:

  1. Data import: now you can convert Boolean values to smallint values when importing data into a new table. You can also now automatically generate simple column names for the target table.
  2. To-Do list: now you can duplicate To-Do items.
  3. Extract metadata: New Always include COLLATE option.
  4. Search metadata: New Do not search in comments option.
  5. New IBEBlock functions and features.
  6. Many small bug fixes and minor improvements.

Since version 2011.12.01 IBExpert now uses the Firebird database and Firebird Embedded 2.5 to store all IBExpert data (registered databases, query histories etc.) by default. In previous versions by default IBExpert stored this data in the IBExpert.stg file and the user was able to change this manually in Options / Environment Options / User Database. Working with IBExpert.stg is still possible (for example, if you disable the User Database manually), but you will get a warning every time you start IBExpert, and we will not support this method in the future.

  • The Customer version (setup_customer.exe) can be downloaded here (for customers with valid license keys). You can also download the customer version in theIBExpert KG Download Center. If you can not see it there, you might have used a different e-mail in the customer registration process or your account has already expired.
  • The Trial version (setup_trial.exe) can be downloaded here (45 day test version) or from the IBExpert KG Download Center.
  • The free Personal version (setup_personal.exe) can be downloaded here (version with limited features free of charge).

We are currently preparing to release Firebird 2.0.7

From Paul Beach’s Blog:
We are currently preparing to release Firebird 2.0.7, since I take responsinility for the Mac builds, I did a 2.0.7 build on MacOSX 10.7 using the development tools installed by XCode 4.1 (gcc 4.2.1 etc). I set up the relevant environment variables for this older 32bit only build CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LD_FLAGS and also set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4. The builds completed without any problems, some simple tests on MacOSX 10.7 showed no problems.

Now – Imagine my surprise when Philippe told me that when he tried to QA the builds on MacOSX 10.5 we got this error on SuperServer startup.

The bleak future of SSD drives

The technology trends we have described put SSDs in an unusual position for a cutting-edge technology: SSDs will continue to improve by some metrics (notably density
and cost per bit), but everything else about them is poised to get worse. This makes the future of SSDs cloudy: While the growing capacity of SSDs and high IOP rates will make them attractive in many applications, the reduction in performance that is necessary to increase capacity while keeping costs in check may make it difficult for SSDs to scale as a viable technology for some applications.

Not good news, specially for those thinking about using the for critical work, like database servers.

Read full research here (in English). Short article in portuguse here.

ANN: FB TraceManager V2.5.0 with per-database monitoring released!

Upscene Productions is proud to announce V2.5.0 of FB TraceManager, a specialized tool to continuously monitor your Firebird database via the Firebird 2.5 Trace API.

More information on the new release is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20120215

Beside the Trace API stuff, V2.5.0 now adds per-database monitoring including:

  • Database header page monitoring
  • Full Firebird monitoring (MON$) tables integration

In combination with the Trace API, this is a powerful and integrated toolset to optimize and tune your Firebird server, database and client application even further.

Read more about per-database monitoring here:
http://www.upscene.com/documentation/fbtm2/database_monitoring.htm

More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm

The full product documentation is also available online:
http://www.upscene.com/documentation/fbtm2/index.html

Database Workbench 4.2.1 released

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next
version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:

Database Workbench 4.2.1 Pro

This release includes the FREE Lite versions for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL.

For more information, see here.

For a video explaining how to debug a Firebird Stored Procedure, click here.

Click here for the full list of changes in v4.2.1
Click here for the full list of changes in v4.2.0

Database Workbench supports:
– Borland InterBase ( 4.x – XE )
– Firebird ( 1.x, 2.x )
– MS SQL Server/MSDE ( 7, 2000, 2005, 2008, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express )
– MySQL 4.x, 5.x
– Oracle Database ( 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g )
– Sybase SQL Anywhere ( 9, 10, 11 and 12 )
– NexusDB ( 3.0 and up )

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