Playing with Django and Firebird

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I’ve been messing around with Django for a while now and having fun. It reminded me of why and how I got started in this field.

[ED:There is an nice firebird mention ]

Using Apache, Webware and Firebird as the database I set out to build something.

Firebird? Yes anything to avoid the MySQL bandwagon. I couldn’t say for sure now, but at the time Firebird was far superior to MySQL. The Firebird team didn’t think that ACID properties, foreign key constraints, stored procedures etc. were just some esoteric optional extras for something with pretensions to being an RDBMS.

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DATASUS using Firebird

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Firebird is being used (and distributed) in several applications produced by DataSUS. SUS is the name of the unified public health system in Brazil. DataSUS is the department responsible for the development of computer applications, etc.

The applications are used in hospitals spreaded in the whole country. You can find several references of Firebird in DataSUS site, like here and here. Probably there are thousands of Firebird servers running only in the Brazilian’s hospitals.

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Firebird .NET provider and calling sp with parameters

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Firebird .NET provider has ability to create parameterized queries. Both named and unnamed parameters are supported. Everything works as you expect with select, insert, delete or update commands. The tricky part comes with stored procedures. Unlike MS SQL, that has direct support for named parameters, in provider, we’re parsing parameter names and we’re sending it to server “in right order”, so developer doesn’t need to know, that internally parameters were send unnamed.

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Einstein teaching Firebird

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Einstein, a group of universities in Brazil, is now offering extension courses based on Firebird:

  • Firebird database management
  • Advanced SQL – Triggers, Stored Procedures and UDF

More information here (in portuguese).

[ED]I know that a lot of universities here in Brazil uses Firebird as the default database for their computing courses, but it is the first time I see one of them offering extension courses based only in Firebird.

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Borland/CodeGear dbExpress driver for Firebird?

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In the latest days, some messages coming from a CodeGear person were posted in some Brazilian’s Delphi/Firebird discussions lists, asking for users to report any problem related to the use of the new DBX4 drivers (coming with Delphi 2007) and Firebird.

Previously, FirebirdNews reported that in the latest Brazilian BorCon (2007), it was told that BOR/CG would probably release a Firebird compatible dbExpress driver. Seems that things are really moving in this way.

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Me on Marc Fleury on Sun purchase of MySQL – replaceable lamp bricks

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The last post was supposed to be this one, but I got distracted on how I found it

“Whether you’re using Postgres, SQLite, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, HSQLD, Firebird, Derby, or whatever, you’re benefiting from the popularity of MySQL. If you’re still using Progress, dBase, or Sybase, maybe not.

My point is that MySQL did for databases what Netscape did for the internet, what Apache did for web servers, what Star Office did for alternate word processors, what Sendmail did for email servers, and what JBoss did for J2EE.”

[ED Here is my reply :Bricks can be replaced in the lamp
Why they always forget the MTA or DNS?
They are critical parts of the clusters
Sendmail is replaced by postfix or qmail if you are a sane person (in ubuntu postfix is by default)
Apache is replaced by lighttpd and nginix – better webservers IMHO
mysql by firebird or postgresql
linux kernel is good enough and is better than win or solaris (if you want wamp or samp)

php can be replaced by ruby or perl or python (if it becames bloated like java in version 6.x) ]

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