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Twitter conversation : Database index nodes are doubly linked to allow bi-directional scans
Twitter conversation of the day is related to SQL Performance Tip : Database index nodes are doubly linked to allow bi-directional scans
Python fdb driver on it’s way to Debian repository
Python driver for firebird : fdb will have a package in the Debian repository in the near future
Philippe Makowski will create the package .
Driver is already packaged for : Mageia, Fedora, RHEL and FreeBSD
Please Join the New Google Plus Firebird Community
Google Plus launched Communities and we created one for Firebird , Please Join in the conversation
New Package Firebird (2.5.2.26539.0) released for Centos and RedHat Linux
New firebird packages are released for CentOS 6 (RHEL 6) in the EPEL repository with the following Changelog :
added patch from upstream to fix Firebird CORE-4011 and RH #886578
Firebird-Mezzanine = Firebird and Django’s WordPress alternative : Mezzanine
Here are my install instructions on Ubuntu/Debian for Mezzanine CMS
First install Firebird 2.5.2 , Then install django and fdb driver
sudo pip install djangosudo pip install fdbsudo pip install mezzanine
Install django-firebird driver like is described on the github page
Create new mezzanine project:
mezzanine-project firebird-mezzaninecd firebird-mezzanine
create empty database from isql-fb / flamerobin
isql-fb
SQL> create database “localhost:/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/firebird-mezzanine.fdb” user ‘SYSDBA’ password ‘masterkey’;
SQL> quit;
create local config for firebird
python manage.py createdbpython manage.py runserver
look at the first results after the wordpress import (i was so impressed that i have removed the old wordpress.com account)
next step : blogspot import is in progress
Firebird used at univexsoftware.com and they start using SuperClassic
This week we released our December update for our back office and point of sale software. In addition to statement emailing that I wrote about last week, we are now exploiting features in the newer Firebird database engine that we use.
New Firebird repository checkout URL (Project moved to Allura platform)
New Firebird repository is imported into the New Allura platform , here is checkout URL and you can browse the other branches
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/firebird/code/trunk firebird-code
New Perl Project: Plugin for monitoring FirebirdSQL in Nagios
New Plugin for monitoring FirebirdSQL database status in Nagios is released.
PyFirebirdSQL 0.7.1 pure Python driver is released with many fixes
The ChangeLog includes many patches:
Here is the download page.
You can also use pip to install/upgrade the package
sudo pip install firebirdsql
For full list of commits consult the github page
ps: pyFirebirdSQL is pure python so it can work without any other so/dll installed and it can be used for example in places where there is no Firebird client installed (think of an android/ios python script)