The conference will be held again, same time same place. So mark your calendar November 6th-8th opendbcon 2006 in Frankfurt germany.
The call for papers is still going on. So submit your topics ASAP. The plan is to have a wide range of topics that appeals to managers, developers/DBA’s as well as hackers on the various projects. I am also hoping that there will be a large panel discussion.
Read more on Poo-Tee-Weet blog
End of life for mysql 3.x and 4.0.x versions , time to switch to an better
alternative database system : firebird
(we have free source and binaries for all versions)
Here is the full article
pabloj Moderator of Oracle and MsSQL forums at Devshed.com responded on Dimitry’s comments:
Hi, what follows are my personal thoughts after reading Dmitry Yemanov’s comments to a great poll posted at Firebirdnews about the features people would like to see implemented.
This is a great presentation, Jim throws in a lot of database history and insight into working with MySQL
I have a FB server running on mipsel now – superserver debug version, in
a chroot over NFS, but anyway, it seems to work at first glance. I was
able to run the script to create our production database.
Is there any regression test I could try to run?
Best regards,
Fabrice Aeschbacher
I have a HP Proliant ML350 with 2x80G HD (admitably bit of an overkill for my needs) which I am using as a file server for an office comprising of about 10 PC’s. Currently the OS is Fedora 4. I have firebird database running as the backend of a point of sale software.
He talked about Falcon, the new storage engine for MySQL An video will be uploaded soon
Work undertaken:
Today I created a small VS 2005 demo project in order to understand how to silently deploy and update an embedded Firebird database using ClickOnce technology. This helped me to gain a basic understanding of the key concepts. Tomorrow I intend to continue this work by considering some more advanced scenarios.
Read more on Quill Work Audit Trail
Igor is doing great work on moving forward the XML based database schema format originally developed by Manuel Lemos as part of Metabase that is used in MDB2_Schema. [ED…skiped some content]The idea behind this schema format is to make it possible to define a single database schema that can be used to create, alter and initialize databases in any number of RDBMS. For example currently MDB2_Schema supports MySQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Interbase/Firebird.
Read more on Lukas Smith’s blog [via planet mysql]
I’ve just released a new experimental site: http://www.firebirdquestions.net/.
It is a searchable and browsable archive of firebird-net-provider mailing list.
Noteworthy features:
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
