New firebird sponsors from :Russia, Japan and Brazil
You can read the details on the fundation’s blog
Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
SchemaSpy 3.0 released
Now with Firebird Support, You can read more here about this project and there are some nice samples
Firebird database Configuration in debian
Read Full article here on debianhelp.co.uk
firebase article about installing apache 2.2 firebird and php
How to install apache2.2. php and firebird on fedora , you may need google translate
Read more at www.firebase.com.br/fb/…
“Free” Databases: Express vs. Open-Source RDBMSs
Open-source databases are gaining IT mindshare at a rapid pace. As an example, BusinessWeek‘s February 6, 2006 “Taking On the Database Giants” article asks “Can open-source upstarts compete with Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft?” and then provides the answer: “It’s an uphill battle, but customers are starting to look at the alternatives.”
Read more on the OakLeaf Systems blog
Firebird and Multi Version Concurrency Control – why is so good
Spotted on dotnetfirebird blog
A nice white paper by Roman Rokytskyy that describes the multi version concurrency control system used in Firebird in comparison to IBM DB2 and Oracle 9i.
I found this quote on the Hibernate Tuning blog: [Ed:They linked to the Roman’s Page , Scroll down to “db2 and friends”]
In fact glaring are the benchmarks published by MySQL. I’d put to you that MVCC support is probably more important than a lot of other concerns in transactional computing (as opposed to batch processing and OLTAP type stuff)
Ingres: Can You Ever Go Back?
[ED:worth reading it – a short intro to ingres history ]
Read more at Mark Logic CEO Blog
Firebird database support in Fogbugz ?
Backup Firebird Databases
There are to different backup Systems in Firebird:
nBackup included in Firebird 2.0 an up
and gBak included in Firebird since humm, good old Borland days back in 199x up to the (still in beta) Firebird 2.0.
When you dont want to struggle with the commandline switches of gbak, you can use the (very useful) GUI-Frontend for gbak developed and provided for free by Talat Dogan: FIBS Firebird-Interbase Backup Scheduler
Read more on this blog
Jim Starkey: Introducing Falcon (Storage Engine for MySQL)
Last session of the MySQL UC is Jim Starkey giving an introduction to the new Falcon storage engine. Jim is an icon in the database field, was the creator of MVCC and the BLOB data type. There’s a can of Falcon beer for anyone who asks a good question.
Read the Falcon intro
[Ed :When i read the word Falcon i always associate it with Millennium Falcon, Yes Jim is fighting a good cause against evil empire ;)]