Firebird in Evans Data survey
Which of the following databases have you used most often THIS YEAR?
The above question is in the newest Evans Data survey, about Open Source tools, and Firebird is one of the listed choices. You can vote now.
Which of the following databases have you used most often THIS YEAR?
The above question is in the newest Evans Data survey, about Open Source tools, and Firebird is one of the listed choices. You can vote now.
IBSurgeon just released the newest version of its Firebird server monitoring tool, FBScanner, with several new features. Read more here. Brazilians can take a look here too.
Habanero is a free open source Enterprise Application Framework, supporting Object Relational Mapping (ORM). A set of class definitions describe how to persist data between object oriented code and a relational database backend. Firestarter is a modelling tool included with the Habanero download that manages the class definitions and allows you to reverse engineer the class definitions from an existing database.
Habanero currently supports data persistence to MySQL, Access, Sql Server, Oracle, SQLite, PostGreSQL, and more recently, Firebird. Due to popular demand, the Firestarter modeller has now been enhanced with the ability to reverse engineer from Firebird as well.
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We have just completed the code to reverse engineer a Firebird database and build the class definitions used by the Habanero framework
Firebird 2.1.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 are added to altlinux.Also latest odbc driver for firebird and mono 2.0.1
AltLinux is an Linux distro that will be used in all the Russian Schools
Other related news about altlinux you can grab from google
[Ed:so this is a big thing , imagine that firebird will be available to every kid or school there , also in Brazil they will have linux on ~50,000,000 desktops for kids , what we need now is some good translated books and documentation]
The new IBProvider version:
Read details on: Firebird driver news channel
DbLinq is THE LINQ provider that allows to use common databases with an API close to Linq to SQL
Sphinx is a very powerful and popular free open source full-text search engine. A few days ago, Sphinx 0.9.8.1 was released. Vlad Khorsun and Pierre Yager made a patch for Sphinx to support Firebird. Their patches and Windows binary are available to download and try out.
It’s an great search engine used a lot in the LAMP world So now for example if you create and phpbb site with firebird back end , you can use sphinx for indexing and fast search. Another idea is : use it to index the whole database if you have large quantities of text and you need to search for keywords (an movie comments database for example)