Month: July 2009

David I post about SFCCA and Firebird

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The open source, SourceForge community, has voted for the 4th annual community choice awards. The best open source project for enterprise was Firebird SQL. Some application developers and database professionals know that the genesis of Firebird is Embarcadero InterBase. In fact, if you look at the source code, you’ll see copyright notices that are also in Embarcadero Technologies‘ InterBase SMP SQL database. 185,000 votes were cast by community members.

Stay tuned to the Embarcadero Developer Network for news about our support for Firebird in future versions of all of our products. We look forward to a great future working closely with the Firebird community.

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Firebird 1TB Database

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When Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon) spoke at FDD a few weeks ago, he shown the results of his recent tests creating a 1 TB (yes, ONE TERABYTE) database with Firebird!

It was really cool to know that FB can handle such beast! A more detailed report about this will be public available in August. Keep checking FirebirdNews!

XMLWizard 1.0.4 released

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Guacosoft.com has released a new version XMLWizard tool used to import data into Firebird databases and compare data from input file against the database. This new version has important bugfixes:

* loading floating point values like 123.00 in integer columns is now allowed
* proper conversion of datatypes
* range checking for float and 64bit integer (BIGINT) values
* separated input file datatype and database column datatype in properties

Linux/s390x support for Firebird 2.1.2

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Dan Horák wrote on firebird devel list:
I am a Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux developer and we are now
porting whole Fedora package collection to the s390x (IBM System z a.k.a
mainframe) architecture. The official sources for Firebird (in version
2.1.2) didn’t support this architecture, so I have prepared a patch that
adds this support. Please let me know what else should I do to get the
support accepted into the official source tree.

the patch was uploaded to
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-2559

successfully built Fedora-11 package is at
http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=83287

Firebird Protocol

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Hi,

I’ve been working on an improved plug-in for wireshark (previously known  as ethereal) and have produced a “Wire Protocol Specification” as a  byproduct.

From my preliminary reading of news groups, etc., several people have  asked for this kind of information. It’s not complete, it’s not correct  but it’s better than anything else I have been able to find.

It should go in your Documentation and Papers section.

Regards,
Mark Chambers

The Firebird 2.1 Language Reference Update is now online

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The Firebird 2.1 Language Reference Update is now online at

http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd21.html

The PDF failed to build with tons of errors. I’ve got no time
to investigate the problem now; leaving for France tomorrow
morning. If somebody else wants to have a shot at it, please
do. The CVS sources are up-to-date.

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