September 2008 - Page 3 of 4

Two weeks for FBConf 2008!

September 9, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

Subscribe now and meet several Firebird developers and gurus. You will have the chance of getting all that hard questions answered by the best people in the world 😉

Firebird x InterBase 2009

September 9, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

Paul Beach posted some comments about the SDTimes article “InterBase 2009 comes with multicore support” in his blog. Don’t forget to take a look at them.

Firebird and Ruby on Rails

September 8, 2008 mariuz 3 comments

On Firebird-tools Pierre Yager asked about Firebird Ruby ActiveRecord Adapter

Does any one knows any project on maintaining an ActiveRecord-Firebird-Adapter?

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What page size should I use?

September 8, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

It’s a common question with interesting background from developers . As I can suppose from IBSurgeon statistics, 99% of Firebird and InterBase developers use default page size: since the old ages it is 1024 bytes, and only for Firebird 2.0 it is changed to 4096 by default. There are 4 main things related with page size: indices depth, database cache size, records per page quantity and disk cluster size.

The shortest answer to this question is to use 4k, 8k or 16k page size. That’s it.

If you want to go a bit deeper, keep reading…