Firebird 2.1.3 released
The team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 2.1.3, with kits available for Linux and Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. For notes about the release, click here.
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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”, …).
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...More porting issues from BDE to dbExpress and Firebird – in Delphi
The porting odyssey continues with issues from jumping from BDE to Delphi .Also another episode is with Firebird date fields (part II)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Firebird in openSUSE Factory – Mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
Firebird is mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
“I want to inform our users that thanks to the efforts of Philippe Makowski, we’ve got Firebird in openSUSE now. He took over the package we had in Build Service, rewrote spec file from scratch, fixed quite some errors and adjusted package in many ways. And as the result Firebird package was finally accepted yesterday (1st of September) into openSUSE Factory.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...CPU suggestions for Interbase/Firebird SQL db server
I work for a small company (fewer than 10 employees). We want to upgrade our primary server hardware this year.
Current server is a HP ML330 G3 with a single Xeon @ 2.8 Ghz, 3GB ram, Raid5 consisting of three 15krpm Ultra320 SCSI drives. OS is Windows 2000 Server.
Our current CPU features hyperthreading, which is enabled. The motherboard is a dual socket board, so initially I was shopping for a second identical CPU (because they’re as cheap as $15 on eBay). But after running some tests, I don’t think it would benefit us.
Our ERP software uses Interbase version 5.6, which does not appear to be multi-threaded based on my tests. I contacted the developer of our ERP package, and they confirmed this: Interbase will NOT utilize multiple physical or logical CPUs. More recent revisions of our ERP software have switched to Firebird db server, which I’ve learned is not multi-thread aware either. This sounds terribly old-fashioned, since modern CPUs are trending toward higher core-count.
Read full post and make your suggestions here.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...E/R Studio introduces official support to Firebird
The new version (8.5 beta) of the Data Modeling tool “E/R Studio” (from Embarcadero) introduces official support for Firebird. Based on past information, you can expect more and more Embarcadero tools officially supporting Firebird in the near future.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird course in Czech
Based on numerous inquiries and wishes of our readers (dbsvet.cz), we decided to organize a one day dedicated to the Firebird database platform, which spells out why the Firebird is a good alternative for the development of new database applications.
One-day course about Firebird led by leading Czech expert (Jiri Cinkura) on this issue introduces the basic database features Firebird so that each of the participants recognized the advantages and disadvantages of this platform for developing real applications and testimonials.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Opendbx 1.4.3 with Firebird changes
You can read the full release log on Freshmeat
The Win32 platform code also received major improvements and is now able to build working Firebird and MySQL backends
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...#Firebird #Database is now officially included in #OpenSuse and the next #Suse
Good news for Firebird and OpenSuse users, Firebird package will be in official repository for new OpenSuse 11.2
For people wanting to test it, it is in the Factory repository
We should send a notice to distrowatch maintainer to add Firebird to the table of included packages for openSuse
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Prepare for #Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 1 that will be released soon
It’s not yet released but you can see what bugs are squashed in the What’s new document
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