Do you want Firebird database to be part of XAMPP?
Please vote on this survey if you agree to Firebird to become more popular in Php/Python world and to be added to the XAMPP package
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/survey-2012.html
Please vote on this survey if you agree to Firebird to become more popular in Php/Python world and to be added to the XAMPP package
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/survey-2012.html
New stable version is out and it includes support for the new Firebird driver fdb
Here is how the patch was done also a simple DAL example is attached
Here is the release announcement with many DAL improvements
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of:
Lazarus 1.0
At this important stage the current team would like to thank all the past and current people who were involved in getting us here.
* Thanks also go to the FPC team for providing the compiler that makes it all possible.
* Special thanks go to the founders of the project who started Lazarus more than a decade ago in 1999: Cliff Baeseman, Shane Miller and Michael A. Hess.
* A history of developers involved can be found in wiki History page . And a list of the many contributors comes with the distribution.
The release is available for download at the SourceForge download page:
Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the “Lazarus 1.0” directory.
Hello All,
Firebird Conference 2012 will take place October 26-27, in Luxembourg. Please plan your journey to the main Firebird event of the year!
Now we are calling for papers – please send talks’ proposals to case@firebirdsql.org if you’d like to present there.
Current sponsors are Sita Software, IBPhoenix and IBSurgeon, other sponsors are very welcome.
Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com)
It is known that massive write operations in Firebird databases (like updates affecting thousands or millions of records) had become much slower in more recent Linux servers. After investigation, I found this to be related with the fact that most recent distros brings the barrier parameter of the filesystem activated.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to solve this “problem” completely, without opening a door for corruption. The slow down when barrier is enabled can be minimized a lot if the database is configured with forced writes OFF, but this also may lead into corruption if something bad happens to the server.
Anyway, the purpose of this post is to share an article that helps to understand how barrier works and why it slow down such kind of operations.
The Lazarus team is glad to announce that Lazarus 1.0RC2 is available for download at the SourceForge download page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/
Choose your CPU / OS / distro and then the 1.0RC2 directory.
Minimum requirements:
Windows: 98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
Mac OS X: 10.4, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit
This release has been built with fpc 2.6.0 (the former release 0.9.30.4 was
built with that too).
The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_0_RC2
The list of changes:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.0_release_notes
SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird PHP Generator 12.8, a frontend to generate feature-rich CRUD web applications for your Firebird database. The software comes in both Freeware and Professional editions. |
New release provides you with a lot of features to create perfect web applications including an ability to completely customize the appearance of web pages, enhanced master-detail views, wide choice of new color schemes, and many other useful things. There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc).
Maximiliano Robaina wrote on the firebird django group some words and questions about the future of the driver :
My ideas for future organization are:
The point 3 is the most important to discuss because it means the total drop of firebird 1.5.x support.
I have added to the group the notes for installing django 1.4.x firebird driver on ubuntu
ps: bonus for using the FDB driver is python 3.x support out of the box , that means we can start testing django 1.5 on python 3.x
The news is on slashdot Mysql is becoming slowly a closed source product.
This is the time and opportunity for firebird to grow and to become more well known , We knew from the past articles that Mysql decline will happen but it will take years (Old bad habits die hard)