Month: February 2012
New Book On Qt And Firebird Database Available In EPUB Format
Logikal Solutions is proud to announce “The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases” has been released in EPUB format as part of “The Minimum You Need to Know” book series. Currently it is available at Barnes & Nobel as well as Kobo. It should also be available shortly at the Sony eBook store.
This book shows the nitty-gritty of developing with Qt using PostgreSQL, Firebird, and SQLite databases. It also shows the developer how to create BOTH console and GUI Qt applications. Readers are shown how to do development with Qt Designer, Qt Creator, QDevelop, Monkey Studio, and Eclipse under KUbuntu. Like most of the titles in this series this book attempts to teach by repeatedly developing the same application with each new tool set so developers who understand one or only “some” of a given tool set can quickly come up to speed by looking at the differences each tool forces on the application.
Qt is an amazing application framework currently owned and supported by Nokia. While there are many books available discussing various aspects of the GUI, most give at most a single chapter to database access. This book is designed to cover that topic in depth. The vast majority of applications written today will need to communicate with a database in some fashion, even if it is just to store user entered data locally. Currently there are no books on the market providing any significant quantity of information about how to do it are more importantly just how different your application will be for each database engine.
“The Minimum You Need to Know” is an award winning technical book series written by Roland Hughes and published by Logikal Solutions. Please visit The Minimum You Need to Know for information about other titles in this technical book series.
FBDataGuard 2.7: major update of Firebird moniotring and database protection tool
FBDataGuard was just updated to the version 2.7. Download it from your IBSurgeon Deploy Center account or get trial version from the product page.
Please schedule upgrade of your production system (please do upgrade carefully and plan all your actions).
Changes in version 2.7 include support for modern browsers in FBDataGuard web-console, fixed bugs and improved performance.
FBDataGuard is intended to be automatic maintainer and administrator assistant for important Firebird databases, especially at remote locations and being bundled with Firebird-based software.
FBDataGuard is designed to provide stability and confidence in business-critical Firebird databases:
- prevent outages and corruptions,
- reduce downtime and performance problems,
- monitor database health and automate maintenance,
- provide alerts and recommendations.
Also it can be used for advanced database recovery of protected database in case of heavy corruption (e.g., caused by hardware failure).
Firebird case study from Wobe-systems GmbH
New Firebird case study from wobe-systems GmbH, German software development house for the graphics industry.
“…A production database of 100 GB and more containing BLOBs is nothing unusual at our customers sites…”
“.. Firebird SQL server is at the core of our system helping our customers swift and safely through their daily work. Equipped with near zero administration and ample possibilities of scalability Firebird SQL database offers an operational reliability that does meet the requirements of industrial and time critical applications.”
Read full article here.