Recordings from 8th FDD
The recordings of the talks of the 8th Brazilian Firebird Developers Day are now available at the FireBase store. The MegaPack DVD (containing the recordings of several FDD editions were also updated with the 8th FDD talks).
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guides to Firebird 3, 4 and 5. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Firebird 2.5.1 final is coming
Expect to see the final release of Firebird 2.5.1 coming out in the next days. There will be no RC2.
New case-study: Point of Sale Systems for the Carwash Industry
A new case-study was added to FirebirdSQL site. It is always interesting to ready such articles, and know about other companies experiences with Firebird. This time it is about DRB Systems moving from InterBase 6 to Firebird to solve stability problems. Read more.
Case Study: Moscow City Hospital
Take a look at the new case study published in the FirebirdSQL site. Interesting that they choosed Firebird over Oracle, and cost was not the only factor. Worth reading!
There are other case studies published in the site. Make sure to read them all, and if you have an interesting case to show, contact the moderator to know how to publish it there.
Tracker and Wiki planned outage this Sunday
Due to changes in the network infrastructure, which will affect network connectivity, these resources will be unavailable in Sept 11, from 13:00 to 17:00 (GMT)
firebirdsql.com -> firebirdsql.org
Now you can use www.firebirdsql.com to visit the official project site. The URL will forward you to www.firebirdsql.org
Firebird 2.5.1 RC1 is out!
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that the v.2.5.1 release candidate kits for Linux and Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are ready for testing. MacOSX kits are delayed by a problem with MacOSX 10.7 (Lion) but should appear soon. Enjoy! and please report bugs or regressions to the firebird-devel list.
Pentaho expand its big data support
Official report of the 8th Firebird Developers Day
The official report of the 8th Firebird Developers Day conference is now online, with lots of pictures. Report is available in English and Portuguese.
Firebird: how to find SQL queries which use bad index?
In the first part of our optimization story (“How to ruin Firebird performance…“) we mentioned that indices should be analyzed before dropping, even if they appeared to be very bad in IBAnalyst in terms of garbage and number of unique values.In essence, we need to log all queries used in applications, get their execution plans and check, how indices are used.For this we need to log all SQL traffic between applications and Firebird database.
Keep reading in IBSurgeon blog.