With this patch applied, the AR test suite runs against FB with relatively few problems (9 failurs and 1 error, compared to 3 failures and 170 errors without the patch). The remaining issues are related to a number of specific defects, which will be addressed in subsequent patch and/or bug-report tickets.
Bugs fixed by Ken Kunz
firebird-docs is updated on gentoo , now with sparc architecture added
We’re using Firebird in small and big projects for years, both on Linux and Windows servers. One customer has over 80 databases all concurrently used ( by remote shops) and driven by one Firebird server instance. Worked flawlessly for months now. Scalability and performance are exellent.
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Why Should You Care? Migrations are cool.
We’re going to cover a lot of ground: Schema, chimps, agile, failures, transactions, foreign keys, data, sql.
from the Blogging RailsConf
[ED:found it on the mysqlplanet]
The July Boston MySQL Meetup’s topic is Falcon, the new storage engine for MySQL. Creator Jim Starkey will speak.
Read more at sheeri.com/archives/88
Bitweaver 1.3.1 is now available. While primarily a bugfix release, 1.3.1 does offer up some very shiny new features
Rumors say that on development branch of the upcoming bitweaver major version Firebird works already very well
FirebirdClient v2.0 for Microsoft .NET 2.0 and mono is available for
download.
Download information can be found here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider
Philippe Makowski wrote on Firebird-General:
Firebird Mandriva Corporate Server VMware virtual machine is ready
It is made with :
* Mandriva Corporate Server 4 beta 3
* Firebird 2 RC2 Classic Server
* Python and PHP drivers
* Flamerobin and IbWebadmin
In order to provide additional/much needed functionality to assist in
tracking project issues, the existing SF Trackers are being replaced
with a new tracker based on the JIRA product
(http://www.atlassian.com/jira-bug-tracking/?edition=Enterprise).
