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Loading...FBCon 09 – “live” feed
Jiri wrote on his blog :The conference is about to start. I’ll write here more and more from it, read it top to bottom.
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird in OSDB Magazine
The next issue of Open Source Database Magazine is now available. This information-packed issue has over 60 pages of information including:
- Firebird’s Road Trip and What’s New with 2.5
- Coding Corner: Trees – Where’s the Performance?
- PostgreSQL’s tsvector: Secret Sauce for Search Engines
- The Lab: The XtraBackup Program for MySQL – Part Two
- Drizzle – A Lightweight Database for the Web
- Kontrollbase: Enterprise grade MySQL monitoring and analytics
- Creating a Twitter Mashup with MongoDB
- Introducing LucidDB
Read more.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...#phpBB 3.0.6 released with small firebird changes
We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB “Fast and Furrious” 3.0.6 package. This release fixes numerous bugs, introduces some major features, as well as improves stability and performance.
Firebird related changes:
Changed minimum requirement for Firebird DBMS from 2.0+ to 2.1+.
ps: i like the new ACM (Cache) plugins for APC , XCache
The cache system provides an API for caching frequently used data, it provides an interface for user code to cache data and an interface for the DBAL to cache query results.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 21 released
Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 21 has released. Here are the
fix:
4.1.2007.21 / 4.1.2009.21 / 4.1.2010.21 Release on 19 Nov 2009
1. Memory leak occurs when Firebird connection is lost.
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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird Trace Manager – Technical Preview
From Thomas Steinmaurer’s blog :
We at Upscene are working on a new commercial product called Firebird Trace Manager which exposes the new Firebird 2.5 Trace API in a user-friendly way. See the following screen (click to enlarge) for a technical preview:
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Performance of the new IBProvider increased by 4.5 times
We are glad to announce the release of new IBProvider Professional v3.0.0.7866.
IBProvider works 4.5 faster than the former versions.
In the new IBProvider version, we removed the cause of low performance of IBProvider builds compiled in Visual Studio. Now these builds work several times faster in both single-threaded and multi-threaded applications.
According to the test results, new IBProvider Professional v3 works 4.5 faster than the former versions.
Performance comparison graph here.
Other features
- We fixed the error related to the queries pool
- New component LPCI.IBP.Samples.RowCursor – the faster substitute for ADODB.Recordset
Source Fiebird driver homepage.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Firebird available in major linux distros
From Philippe Makowski , in fb-general list:
Hi,
Finaly OpenSuse 11.2 is out.
It is the first time that Firebird is in official OpenSuse repositories.After Mandriva (2010.0 is very nice), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora (and RHEL/Centos Fedora project repositories) : OpenSuse
All major free distro have now latest Firebird stable version (2.1.3) available in their official repositories.Enjoy …
(8 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)Loading...Firebird for ISV – Business advantages
Dmitry Kuzmenko posted a presentation about the subject:
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