The conference is starting today. I’ll write here during the days about what’s going on. Read it from bottom to top. Also check Twitter with hashtag #FbCon10 for most recent quick messages.
Right to the FireBird Conference starting tomorrow in Bremen we uploaded a new version “adhoc 20101111” of FreeAdhocUDF.
There are some importend bugfixes, expanded functions, 11 new functions (totally now 551!) and new support for InterBaseXE 32 und 64bit.
This is a recommended update.
FreeAdhocUDF is the the first (and still the only?) UDF-library with UTF-8 and UNICODE-FSS support.
FreeAdhocUDF is licenced under the LGPL and you can use it without costs also in commercial projects – see licence.
You can download it from ftp://ftp.FreeAdhocUDF.org/FreeAdhocUDF/
Documentation found at http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/index_eng.html – still be updateted in the next days …
For all kind of questions and bug-reports use eMail help@freeadhocudf.org
adhoc dataservice / Christoph Theuring
The decline will not be immediate, it will take some time, notably Apache distributions like XAMPP and WAMP will have to offer users alternatives to MySQL, as most developers use these packages, instead of installing products independently. All is not lost, the Open Source community has plenty of options. There are two well established alternatives to MySQL: PostgreSQL and Firebird. Both have large established communities, and support of major corporations. One of these will become the next MySQL
JIŘÍ wrote on his blog
I almost forgot to announce the topics touching ADO.NET provider for Firebird. This year I have three sessions. You can find more info, and register, of course, at firebird-conference.com. Here’s the list.
People moving to FB 2.5.0 may be asking if it is safe to copy the security2.fdb file from previous versions of Firebird to Firebird 2.5, keeping the users previously created, so avoiding to recreate them.
In theory, copying the file should work, but with no guarantees. Firebird 2.5 uses a new ODS (11.2). You can do a backup/restore in FB 2.5 to update the ODS of security2.fdb, but some problems will still persists, regarding the use of the new role RDB$ADMIN (which gives SYSDBA rights to “normal” users) – in this case, normal users who were granted RDB$ADMIN role, will have problems to use the new SQL commands CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER. Note: Firebird 2.5.1 will bring a sql script to fix this problem.
So, the safest way to move users to FB 2.5 right now, is to recreate them in Firebird 2.5, either using gsec.exe or the new CREATE USER statement.
Thanks to Dmitry Yemanov for detailed information about the problem.
Remember to participate to this Firebird course @#unifev http://goo.gl/2lxKK Now it’s pushed to this date 13/11! So yet Another chance participate.
Saw it on the twitter #firebird stream
Notes on working with Flamerobin and Firebird Embedded on the Windows side
Looks like Oracle decided to charge money for those who wants to use InnoDB with MySQL. InnoDB offers features like transaction control, not found in the “classic” version of MySQL. Read more here and here.
Need Transactions, Stored Procedures, Triggers, etc. and don’t wanna to pay? GO FIREBIRD!
Update: As pointed by some of our readers, InnoDB is still offered for free in the MySQL “Community” edition.
Pierre Joye (Team Leader for windows.php.net) wrote on windows php building list : (someone
asked about the ldap extension)
5.3.4 should have it. There are other missing extensions but some of
them will never be restored (like *spell for example). Firebird was
the last one actually missing and should be back in 5.3.4.
From Jiri’s blog
Remember the challenge I did some time ago with .NET provider for Firebird and MonoTouch? Well because I’ve got access to previews of MonoDroid, why not to try the same here?
