firebird gentoo linux package updated
Here is the full change log with security fixes for 2.0.x in gentoo portage system
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
RAID 10 performance tradeoffs and firebird
I have been configuring a fair number of Linux database servers for a line-of-business application; it runs the Firebird SQL database in server mode only (no application code at all – just DB).
All of these are the wonderful Dell PowerEdge 2950 units with the PERC6i RAID controller, and my typical configuration is 6x 146G 15k SAS drives. These are the highest-performance, highest capacity solution in 3.5″ drives.
Embedded Firebird, error trying to write to file
This error has been really annoying me tonight!
I have an app that uses Embedded Firebird for its DB so that I don’t need to
install a DB server. On Vista my app throws an exception “Error trying to
write to file (the correct path here)”.
Python, kinterbasdb and 64bit MacOSX 10.5
Now we have 64bit builds of Firebird 2.1 for MacOSX 10.5, we have issues trying to test them properly using the Firebird QMTest QA suite. This QA suite relies on Python and kinterbasdb. Currently Philippe Makowski has been able to run the tests from a 64bit Linux client. But is unable to run the tests locally. Well currently the python framework that comes with MacOSX 10.5 is only 32bit and this forces a 32bit build of kinterbasdb, since the build environment of kinterbasdb uses distutils to use the same compile switches as python. So I thought I would have a look at the issue and see if I could build a 64bit version of kinterbasdb for MacOSX 10.5.
This is how I did it…
Generic Database Output Module for rsyslog
An introductory article about using the new Generic Database Output Module
This modules supports a large number of database systems via libdbi. Libdbi abstracts the database layer and provides drivers for many systems. Drivers are available via the libdbi-drivers project. As of this writing, the following drivers are available:
rsyslog 3.11.2 (Development) with firebird support added
Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd. Among other features, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable syslog over TCP, writing to MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, fully configurable output formats (including great timestamps), the ability to filter on any part of the syslog message, and on-the-wire message compression. It is designed as a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and thus is able to work with the same configuration file syntax. Of course, some enhanced features require changing the configuration file, but in general, this should be fairly easy.
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Qt4 + Firebird – problem solved in ubuntu
This week I looked at Firebird2 and decided to give it a try. In a few minutes I discovered that the package libqt4-sql (the one that provides support for accessing databases from Qt4 apps) comes with just a few drivers enabled (coincidentally the ones that I mentioned above). Firebird is NOT enabled by default.
Here is how it was solved
SQLObject 0.10.0b2 released
I’m pleased to announce the 0.10.0b2 release of SQLObject.
What is SQLObject
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SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described
as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be
easy to use and quick to get started with.
SQLAlchemy 0.4.3 released
We’re getting the current batch of new stuff out the door, with plenty
more waiting to fill into the next trunk. Theres a broad variety of
new things here which are summarized below.
Download SQLA 0.4.3 at: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/download.html
Full changes:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlalchemy.user/11726/
Playing with Django and Firebird
I’ve been messing around with Django for a while now and having fun. It reminded me of why and how I got started in this field.
[ED:There is an nice firebird mention ]
Using Apache, Webware and Firebird as the database I set out to build something.
Firebird? Yes anything to avoid the MySQL bandwagon. I couldn’t say for sure now, but at the time Firebird was far superior to MySQL. The Firebird team didn’t think that ACID properties, foreign key constraints, stored procedures etc. were just some esoteric optional extras for something with pretensions to being an RDBMS.