I tried build FirebirdClient in Silverlight environment and I failed. I expected to fail after some attempts with modifications and using only subset of features like i.e for Compact Framework, but this was really fast. Silverlight is only subset of .NET Framework. And one crucial part is not there, it’s System.Data stuff and without it you can drop major part of any ADO.NET provider’s code.
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This command exists in all Firebird versions:
SQL> set stats on;
SQL> select 1 from rdb$database;
CONSTANT
============
1
Current memory = 10135512
Delta memory = 164708
Max memory = 10263380
Elapsed time= 0.11 sec
Buffers = 2048
Reads = 12
Writes 0
Fetches = 157
SQL>
Elapsed time is the time the query needed to complete. Run it a second time and the elapsed time is only 0.02 seconds because metadata is already loaded.
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)Loading...For those you wanted to test :
Fat Binaries of Firebird V2.1.3 for MacOSX 10.5+ (intel 32/64bit) are available for
download and testing.
http://ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_download_test
(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...IB Surgeon published a slide presentation about FB Scanner, a great product that intercepts the traffic between Firebird <-> Clients and allow you to see what is going on (works with any FB version).
Se você está no Brasil, não deixe de conferir o preço especial do FBScanner na loja on-line da FireBase.
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)Loading...vsnijders just announced version 0.9.28 of Lazarus on freshmeat.net.
The major changes are as follows:
In this major release, the IDE has many source editor improvements like display
of “double width” fonts (such as Eastern, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic), better
code folding, highlighting, syncro editing, and persistent blocks. The debugger
has assembler windows, easier exception handling, and breakpoint properties. The
LCL now uses GTK2 as the default widgetset on Linux and BSD and includes the
TMonitor class for multi-monitor support. Refactoring of LCL reduced the minimum
size of executables by about 15%. The support of TFrame support has improved, so
you can visually nest designers in the IDE.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...People from IBSurgeon started a serie of posts pointing actual differences between Firebird and InterBase. Many people still thinks that Firebird is kind of “free InterBase”, but the two projects are now quite different.
Read the first part about 32 and 64 bits support.
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...DBA Software Inc., a leading provider of manufacturing (MRP) solutions for small business, announced that its decision two years ago to base its flagship product, DBA Manufacturing Next-Generation, on the Firebird™ open-source SQL database has been an unqualified success.
“MySQL gets all the publicity when it comes to open-source databases,” said Michael Hart, President of DBA Software, “but based on our experience, Firebird deserves a share of the limelight. MySQL is great for the Internet, but Firebird is perfectly suited for software applications such as our manufacturing package. It has a small footprint, is easy to install, requires no administration, and is fast, stable, and secure.”
Read more.
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(8 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Tsutomu Hayashi did some benchmarks and here are the results with the time in seconds
Intel Core2Quad 9550 with 4G Memory Firebird Protocol: LocalConnection
All Firebird is defalt settings FB-2.1.2 is very slow, FB-2.5 is fastest.
DBcreation (Seconds – Lower is Better)
FirebirdSS-1.5.5 3007
FirebirdSS-2.1.2 1651
FirebirdSS-2.5Beta2 1289
TPC-R (Seconds – Lower is Better)
FirebirdSS-1.5.5 621
FirebirdSS-2.1.2 2748
FirebirdSS-2.5Beta2 526
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)Loading...This toolkit dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating to/from any of the following database/file systems: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Visual Foxpro, SQLite, FireBird, InterBase, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Paradox, Lotus, dBase, CSV/Text and transfer any ODBC DSN data source to them. Features »
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