DevCo sponsoring Prague conference
Today the sponsors of the Prague Firebird conference were announced.
The list includes the soon to be spun out “Developer Tool Group” at
Borland, a.k.a. DevCo. Read more
Category: General news
Firebird related news
IBExpert New Version 2006.10.14 ready for Download
IBExpert New Version 2006.10.14 ready for Download
Today we uploaded a new Version 2006.10.14
of IBExpert on www.ibexpert.com
What´s new?
-Query Manager
-BEGIN/END and CASE/END visual highligting
-Interbase 2007 Support
-Debugger Support for CROSS JOIN
-IBExpertWebForms Server Script Version now available
-IBExpertWebForms vmware Server demo now available
-New IBExpert Book
-Firebird Conference 2006
-Das Highlight der IBExpert Roadshow 2006: IBExpertWebForms
Termine 19.10. in Berlin und 20.10. in Hamburg
and much more …
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firebird – it inserts 610.000 records/minute in one test
Here is the test configuration and details (database structure)
75% discount on Upscene’s LogManager series, this week only!
This week only, because of the 6-year celebration of our LogManager
series, there’s a 75% discount on ALL LogManager related products.
The LogManager series is a full-featured auditing suite for several
database engines, including support for InterBase, Firebird,
Advantage Database Server, Microsoft SQL Server and NexusDB.
Join the party and feel free to spread this news!
http://www.upscene.com/index.htm?lm_party_promo.htm
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Best Regards,
Thomas Steinmaurer
LogManager Series – Logging/Auditing Suites supporting
InterBase, Firebird, Advantage Database, MS SQL Server and
NexusDB V2
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com
PostgreSQL, FirebirdSQL and MySQL(subjective view)
(Disclaimer: I am a PostgreSQL fan, this is my subjective personal experience)
Had a interesting experience with 3 of these DBMS’es.Needed to write an application that opperates on 7000000 row table.
ED:Here are the “results”
spacialaudio.com is an firebird customer
SAM Broadcaster can support 4 different databases. The databases are used to store song information and provide website interaction. If you have no database knowledge we recommend you try the FireBird database since it is very easy to install and use. [ED, that is my qoute of the day for firebird ;)] Read more
Open Source On The Air – Episode 9 – some words about Falcon Engine
This week we’ve taken a break from the political.
So for the LA Update, we have a word with Arjen Lentz about some of the new features in MySQL and the “in development” Falcon Engine.
99 Bottles of Beer in Firebird relational database SQL
Ok, I agree it is not too much useful, but it is fun:
99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-firebird-sql-257.html
😉
Oracle UDF library – call for help
Berkeley DB now have Snapshot
Oracle Juices Up Berkeley DB – Oracle spruced up one of its recently acquired embeddable databases, Berkeley DB, releasing on Sept. 27 Version 4.5 with multi-version concurrency control and more.
This is old news for Firebird/InterBase users. MGA (or Versioning) architecture, used in FB/IB, was born with Snapshot isolation for transactions.