Firebird/RDB supported by the largest banking software maker in Russia
RedDB (based on Firebird) is now supported by BSS, the largest banking software maker in Russia. Read more (translated with Google).
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Window Functions in Firebird 3
Adriano has published in his blog some information about the implementation of the OVER function in Firebird 3. Really cool.
By the SQL specification, window functions are a kind of aggregation, but which does not “filter” the result set of a query. The aggregated data is mixed with the query result set. That sort of functions are used with the OVER clause. Users of Oracle also knows window functions as analytical functions[…]
Database Master 1.7 released
Database Master is a powerful database development, management and administration software for the Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, FireBird and SQLite database systems. It allows you to manage databases, tables, views, procedures, indexes, triggers and provides productivity features for rapidly creating and executing SQL queries and connect some major database systems via ODBC and OleDb. Database Master is being imagesed for modern multi-cpu/core architecture.
From Firebird Foundation blog
Older posts here.
Login using external authentication temporary disabled
Due to an incompatibility between WordPress 2.9.x, I had to disable temporarily the RPX plugin, responsible for enabling the login of users at FirebirdNews using OpenID, Google, etc. accounts.
The bug was holding new posts to be added to the site. I will re-enable the plugin as soon this get fixed. If you need to login at the site, you will need to have a local account.
Choosing a File System on Linux for Firebird
Philippe Makowski wrote a nice article comparing the performance of Firebird database on different linux file systems.
Don’t believe benchmarks made by someone other than yourself !
Read it here.
FBNews is back ;-)
Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉
Firebird birthday party?
From FB events page:
Coming up in 2010 :: Firebird’s 10th birthday, July 31
Watch this space for details of events as plans evolve.
SqueakDBX now supports Firebird
We are glad to announce that we now support Firebird as backend. The good news for us is that it just took 4 hours to get it working and even with the 100% of the tests in green.
OpenDBX supports Firebird since a lot of time but we didn’t have too much time to try it. I wanted to “give a hand” to Norbert generating all dlls for each new release. I didn’t have ever used Firebird neither Sybase. So, I started with Firebird and now it is working like a charm.
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Merry Christmas
We wish all of you, users, developers, etc, a very nice Christmas, and an awesome New Year! In 2.010, Firebird will complete 10 years of existance, and we hope it will be a very special year!