Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
I have updated the FirebirdNews site with two new WordPress plugins, allowing people to reply comments, and vote for posts. Both options are very easy to use, and probably you already noticed how to use them 😉
The intention is that FirebirdNews readers also participate/interact with the site. Go on! Vote for your preferred posts, and don’t hesitate to post comments if you think you have something to say!
The issue, typical in Firebird, consist in the fact that, after you insert a new record with an autoincrement field in a datagridview, we have to exit from the application to be able to edit the new inserted record.
To solve this issue you have to proceed this way
Here is the ChangeLog for Firebird 2.1.3 package in Gentoo :
Bump to 2.1.2, mostly fixes #264955. Thanks to Vladimir, John W. Higgins and all the testers in the bug.
MySQL users are nervous about Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems, according to InfoWorld. You can see their point: Why would a company whose main product is a proprietary database be interested in maintaining an open source competitor to it?
There are other open source databases available. PostgreSQL, Firebird, HSQLDB, even Apache Derby can all be called into service, depending on your needs. The developer communities behind any of these projects would be more than happy to help scores of ex-MySQL users migrate to their particular platform. They almost certainly already have tools to do it
Great PPT from Alex Peshkoff (Firebird Core developer) regarding Firebird Security is published: http://bit.ly/3ITICI
via ibsurgeon’s tweet
Firebird 2.1.3 package is uploaded to Debian Unstable (Sid) and here is the list of package changes
* fix repack.sh invocation in watch file
* make executable
* New upstream release
+ drop patches released upstream
– cvs_CVE-2009-2620_DOS.patch was deleted (fixed upstream in 2.1.3)
– cvs_autogen.sh-autoreconf.patch
* refresh all patches to apply cleanly
* no longer regster QuickStart.pdf with doc-base; it was dropped upstream
* -classic.postinst: remove stray stop rc.d symlinks
What is interesting is to see the import diff vs the 2.1.2 package
This article is devoted to the Embedded Firebird database usage and also development of C++ wrapper of this database.You can reply on code project for this article.If you wonder :”What is the difference between his wrapper and IBPP?” here are some answers
Douglas Tosi wrote about why is recommended to do the upgrade in a short like review (If you don’t want to parse the changelog yet)
Yesterday Firebird 2.1.3 was made public. As with all maintenance releases its focus is stability. A number of bugs are fixed and it is a recommended update for everyone using older versions of the 2.1 series
Via twitter status post
I started following him http://twitter.com/brentrowland because he is
the Ruby Firebird Extension maintaner also he writes some really
interesting tweets and blog posts
Lorenzo wrote another impressive sql article :This morning a new article of yours truly has been published on the TechPortal. The title is Graph in the database: SQL meets social networks, and it’s a natural sequel to my talk aboutTrees in the database.
You will learn how to retrieve linked nodes, and how to answer some of the queries typical of social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, or recommendation systems (“You might also know/like”, “How you are connected to XY”, …).
