Year: 2010

Firebird to be included in #Mageia : a new GNU #Linux distribution based on #Mandriva Ashes

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Firebird history and Mageia story are related to each other  , here are the Philippe’s kind words

A new GNU Linux distribution is born : Mageia, a Mandriva Linux fork.

So why speak about this here ?

First, Firebird packages need a maintainer and as I am the one in Mandriva, I will do the same in Mageia

Second, this story remind me a little the Firebird story

Third I’m enthusiast to contribute (may be more than only Firebird related packages) to a such challenging adventure, and in this one, there are people that I really trust.

Long live Mageia : http://www.mageia.org/

Artur Anjos will be with Paulo Gaspar presenting The Firebird #Database talk at #codebits2010

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and here are the full  details of the talk  very impressive :The Firebird Database: simple, free and powerful

http://codebits.eu/intra/s/proposal/112

Artur Anjos, a Firebird Project member, finally registered himself on Codebits in order to share this presentation.
http://codebits.eu/arturanjos
Artur is with Firebird almost since the project started and has more than 8 years of production experience with it.

gbak running in embedded mode

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матрациThose who are new to the Classic version of Firebird on Linux may find interesting that, while running gbak to backup a database, accessing the DB file locally (not by tcp/ip, etc), you will not find a fb_inet_server proccess serving the gbak connection. This is because, in this specific situation, gbak works in embedded mode. Alex Peshkov says this provides the best performance results.

Benchmark tool

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Philippe Makowski posted this at fb-devel:

Hi,

I found this bench : http://tokutek.com/products/iibench/

(http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mdcallag/mysql-patch/mytools/annotate/head%3A/bench/ibench/iibench.py)

and aibench.py:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mdcallag/mysql-patch/mytools/annotate/head%3A/bench/ibench/aibench.py

I made a Firebird version of both. You can download them here : http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/rabbits/pmakowski/

If you find them useful, I will put them in the svn QA repository

How to increase Firebird backup and restore speed (up to 30%)

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It seems that many Firebird developers and administrators are not aware about  command line switch -se[rvice] for gbak.exe

-SE[RVICE] <servicename>

This switch causes gbak to backup a remote database via the service manager. This causes the backup file to be created on the remote server, so the path format and filename must be valid on the remote server. The servicename is currently always the text service_mgr.

here is the rest of the article in Eglish

also there is an Italian mention in blogosphere

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