Sinática Monitor supports Firebird 2.5
Among the handful of new features for this new release of Sinática Monitor is support for monitoring Firebird 2.5 databases.
You may download it now or read the complete release notes.
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The last big chance for Firebird?
Marco Cantu talks about Firebird SFCCA award, and says:
The Firebird open source database server wins a SourceForge Community Choice Award (in the “Best Project for Enterprise” category). This is certainly a very good sign of its popularity. At the time MySQL future is far from clear, due to multiple project spin-off following Oracle acquisition of Sun (and MySQL), Firebird has a chance to stand out. Maybe its last big chance, I’m not sure.
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Firebird SQL op_connect_request main listener shutdown vulnerability
A remote denial of service vulnerability has been found in Firebird SQL, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to force the server to close the socket where it is listening for incoming connections and to enter an infinite loop, by sending an unexpected op_connect_request message with invalid data to the server.
David I post about SFCCA and Firebird
The open source, SourceForge community, has voted for the 4th annual community choice awards. The best open source project for enterprise was Firebird SQL. Some application developers and database professionals know that the genesis of Firebird is Embarcadero InterBase. In fact, if you look at the source code, you’ll see copyright notices that are also in Embarcadero Technologies‘ InterBase SMP SQL database. 185,000 votes were cast by community members.
Stay tuned to the Embarcadero Developer Network for news about our support for Firebird in future versions of all of our products. We look forward to a great future working closely with the Firebird community.
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Article on the H-online:SourceForge Community Choice Awards 2009: winners announced
The winners of the fourth annual SourceForge Community Choice Awards were announced at this years OSCON. Over 47,000 open source projects were nominated for this years Community Choice Awards and 85 finalistswere selected across twelve categories.
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SQL Code Formatter
SQLLY has a page with a free on-line PSQL source code formatter. Give it a try!
Firebird 1TB Database
When Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon) spoke at FDD a few weeks ago, he shown the results of his recent tests creating a 1 TB (yes, ONE TERABYTE) database with Firebird!
It was really cool to know that FB can handle such beast! A more detailed report about this will be public available in August. Keep checking FirebirdNews!
Firebird wins Best Project for the Enterprise on #sourceforge #cca awards
Here is the main website for the event (where the live announcement was made on 23 July)
I will add more info after the press releases.So firebird team will get another Bot 🙂
XMLWizard 1.0.4 released
Guacosoft.com has released a new version XMLWizard tool used to import data into Firebird databases and compare data from input file against the database. This new version has important bugfixes:
* loading floating point values like 123.00 in integer columns is now allowed
* proper conversion of datatypes
* range checking for float and 64bit integer (BIGINT) values
* separated input file datatype and database column datatype in properties
Linux/s390x support for Firebird 2.1.2
Dan Horák wrote on firebird devel list:
I am a Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux developer and we are now
porting whole Fedora package collection to the s390x (IBM System z a.k.a
mainframe) architecture. The official sources for Firebird (in version
2.1.2) didn’t support this architecture, so I have prepared a patch that
adds this support. Please let me know what else should I do to get the
support accepted into the official source tree.
the patch was uploaded to
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-2559
successfully built Fedora-11 package is at
http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=83287