Free DB special Blaise Pascal magazine
Blaise Pascal is offering its new edition dedicated to DB development as free download. Firebird is mentioned in several of the articles. Download your copy right now.
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News from the Firebird Foundation:
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird 2.5: The Real and The Only alternative to #MySQL
The Firebird 2.5 article is in Italian language
And here is the translation (with highlights from Firebird 2.5 press release)
l progetto Firebird ha da poco annunciato il rilascio della versione 2.5 del suo database relazionale opensource.
Le novità di questa release sono abbastanza interessanti ma ovviamente gli sforzi maggiori sono stati fatti per migliorare l’affidabilità, le performance e la scalabilità del database. Philippe Makowski, presidente della fondazione non-profit Firebird Foundation ha dichiarato che il rilascio di Firebird 2.5 è un passo importante sia per il progetto stesso, visto che cade in questi giorni il suo decimo anni di vita, che per l’intero mondo opensource.
D’altronde, come dargli torto: la comunità sta cercando ormai da un bel po’ di tempo un degno sostituto di MySQL che, nonostante i proclami di Oracle, pare sempre più lontano dall’iniziale predisposizione all’opensource. “Molti nostri clienti utilizzano senza grossi problemi database Firebird che spaziano dai 200 ai 400GB”, ha dichiarato Stewart Sping, CTO della Watermark Software. “I miglioramenti delle performance di Firebird 2.5 permetteranno sicuramente di raggiungere risultati ancora più entusiasmanti”. Firebird 2.5 è disponibile sotto forma di pacchetti binari per piattaforme Windows e Linux a 32 e 64 bit. Maggiori informazioni e download sono disponibili su questa pagina
(6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...firebird #ruby driver is building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2
Brent Rowland wrote on twitter
Got fb building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.9.1. Now for 1.9.2.
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27211068760
Got fb building with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2. At least on Mac. Under 10.6. Testing Linux and Windows will have to wait for another day.
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27220817754
Here is the git repository for Firebird Ruby driver , also you can check the
commits log
ps: he is working on Firebird 2.5 support if you wonder what is new in the driver 🙂
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...RAD Studio XE in Devart VCL
From Irina Pisklyarova:
Devart announced the new versions of VCL Data Access Components with full support of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE.
The Devart VCL Data Access Components product line consists of the solutions that provide access from Delphi, Delphi for .NET, C++Builder, and Free Pascal chest, and offer wide coverage of the database servers’ feature sets. Devart Data Access Components provide the direct access to Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil, SQLite, DB2, Microsoft Access, Advantage Database Server, Adaptive Server Enterprise, and other databases.
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Starting SC/CS on Linux
Alex Peshkov posted some more (interesting) info about this in fb-devel list:
The only difference between [starting] classic and superclassic is different server binary to start – classic is started by fb_inet_server (started by xinetd) and super – fb_smp_server, started by fbguard, started by /etc/init.d script. You can remove fb_smp_server, fbguard and startup scripts – and you will get poor classic package. To get superclassic package – remove fb_inet_server and xinetd startup file, and slightlychange install script.
Must say that this is anyway not a longterm solution. Since 3.0 we will not have separate packages – single package will serve all needs, including SS, and choice of operation mode will be done using firebird.conf.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Traffic rank for firebirdsql.org gone to the roof : it’s on place 35,024
The traffic for firebirdsql.org according to alexa.com is gone to the roof , now is past the 40.000 threshold and it’s now at the place
~ 35.000 : the best place in all the firebirdsql.org traffic history !
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Idokan is Creating now 4 packages of firebird 2.5 for #ArchLinux
Via twitter and flamerobin /firebird-devel mailing lists i have seen a lot of activity related to firebird on ArchLinux packages
Creating now 4 packages of #firebird 2.5 to #ArchLinux: SuperServer, libfbclient, ClassicServer, SuperClassic, will be in AUR when I’ll done
Arch is in top 10 most wanted distros on distrowatch
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...XMLWizard – 50% discount
GuacoSoft offers 50% discount to all MindTheBird members, on XMLWizard tool to import data into Firebird from external files like XML, CSV and textual files.
http://www.guacosoft.com/xmlwizard
Discount: 50%
ShareIt coupon code: you can find it in Milan’s message in MTB discussion group
Only valid until October 15th, 2010.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird Sql 2.5 for #Apple #MacOSX is out, Minimum supported version is 10.6 Snow Leopard
NOTE :: To make the new engine work properly under multi-threaded conditions we had to use Grand Central Dispatch, which was first released in MacOSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard). MacOSX users should be aware that Firebird 2.5 will run only on MacOSX 10.6 or higher versions. If you want to use an earlier version of OSX you will need to use an earlier version of Firebird.
Download from usual location :
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