The members of the Firebird Project team are proud to announce the release of Firebird 2.1, a full release containing many sought-after new features including database monitoring, global temporary tables, database triggers and dozens of new internal functions.
This release includes kits for 64-bit Windows and all MacOSX environments and constitutes our largest-ever platform coverage. Enjoy! Details Downloads
“From the MySQL User’s Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base.”
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There are many posts about firebird too
Also another interesting blog about this community split
PLEASE let the LAMP acronym die already! There are so many alternatives in Free Software land.
L: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, several more.
A: Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, dozens more.
M: MySQL, PostgreSQL, FirebirdSQL, SQLite, and more…
P: PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Groovy, Scala, Tcl, Smalltalk, Lisp, the list can go on forever.
original post was on lwn.net
Release focus: Major bugfixes
phpBB 3.0.1 has just been released, this means some small bug fixes, which were of course necessary in order to ensure the continuous stable release rate of phpBB. The official release topic is posted below.[Ed: phpbb3.0.x runs on firebird > 2.0]
In the second part of April there are 3 conferences in Moscow, Russia, where will be Firebird sessions
The appliance is based on an unspecified hardware platform from MBX running Gentoo Linux, the Apache web server, PHP scripting, and the open source Firebird SQL database.
The Firebird Project has ported its lightweight, open-source database to the ARM architecture. The project is looking for help testing a new Firebird 2.1 RC2 release, which in addition to ARM support, adds database triggers, temporary and monitoring tables, common table expressions, and recursive queries
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7532715481.html
[ED: ok the arm port is not merged in the cvs yet but the code is already there in debian’s git or private patches, please ask on devel-list]
In some tasks we need to know how many users are connected to the database. And even which users are connected… There is an interesting piece of code with which you may achieve this this. It is an additional source file written for ZeosDBO 6.1.3 library. It only works with Firebird 1.5. But it can be easy modified for another Firebird/Interbase server.
This little article shows how to access Firebird databases by using the ZEOS component Library in version 6.1.5 (including Patches 1&2) and how to use these components in database applications. It does not matter if you use the “real” SQL-Server or the embedded version which is restricted to local held databases. A couple of examples (also migrated Delphi-BDE demos) shall explain how to use the ZEOS components.
