Currently, if server’s host has more than one IP, FB uses only
first one. Attached patch lets it use up to eight. It’ll allow to
establish Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers, just having added
more addresses to DNS, thus gaining fail-safety (or/and – if round-
robin turned on – load balancing).
Here is the patch and the thread
Here you can see the package details
Iwas skimming and saw this article: Choosing the “Right” DBMS Engine. It piqued my interest because I’ve used a lot of databases over the years (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access, IDMSX, Btrieve, probably others I’ve forgotten) and as with anything, you only use a small number of them extensively at any one time so you quickly get out of date on the pros/cons of each (particularly as I’m not in the business software world any more so my DB usage has decreased). So, I thought this would be an interesting article to read if it compared and contrasted a few based on the current situation…
[ED:and here is what Steve found in the article]
Today osFinancials Stable 2.0.1 Bugfix version is released.
Libgda/Libgnomedb version 3.1.2 has been released. This is a new unstable development release which brings the following changes:
An small howto with firebird+sharpdevelop+dot net provider (in spanish)
there is an new snapshot here OdbcJdbc v2-0-Beta Ver 02.00.00.0144 http://www.praktik.km.ua/
soon it will be added here too
We’ve rolled out a new release as promised, mostly bugfixes, please download it and try it. We have binary packages for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, and sources, of course. Release notes will come soon.You can Read more about previous changes in 0.8.0.
Gambas is a free development environment based on
a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like
Visual Basic
