Firebird News

OpenDBX 1.1.2 released – firebird support added

July 10, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

I can proudly announce that this release of the OpenDBX library contains a fully featured and stable backend for firebird/interbase database servers which works well with both, the classic server and the newer firebird threaded server (often called “firebird super server”). Using the firebird/interbase client library correctly is one of the more challenging tasks and therefore great news for the OpenDBX project.

* More information about OpenDBX
* Download OpenDBX

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firebird on ecrypted file sytems (linux and windows)

July 7, 2006 mariuz 2 comments

On ubuntu linux i use encfs to create an virtual partition where i put my databases (and email, im logs) , Here is an howto create such an partition . On windows (i didn’t tested yet) but i heard about truecrypt (is an open source product). Here is an quote from their faq

Q: Is it possible to install an application to a TrueCrypt volume and run it from there?
A: Yes.

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blog of the day about firebird rc3

July 7, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

We actually have been deploying only super-servers, on beefy boxes with 2x dual core with 2x HT each (8x processing unit in total), because of our lack of experience in classic servers. Well, those server boxes do run other applications so you don’t get CPUs sitting there doing nothing, but I still wonder which one will be more suitable — one single super-server with shared page cache pool that can only utilise one CPU core, or multiple classic server instances that have their own page cache. However we do have up to 160 concurrent connections to the database on some of our boxes. Not sure how Win2k3 will perform with this kind of process count. Damn! Wish we can deploy them onto Linux boxes.

Race between Firefox and Firebird

July 7, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

Anyone wants to bet which project: Firefox or Firebird will be first for release version 2.0?

Time to digg an Firebird vs Firefox story

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Borland and Firebird, friends?

July 6, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

At last in Brazil, the relationship between Borland and Firebird community is getting better. For the second year, Borland is sponsoring the Firebird Developers Day conference. You can check the nice promotion banner they included in their June newsletter clicking here.

I hope things will get even better when “DevCo” starts running.

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KInterbasDB 3.2rc1 Released

July 5, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

KInterbasDB is a Python extension package that implements Python Database API 2.0-compliant support for the open source relational database Firebird and some versions of its proprietary cousin Borland Interbase. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, InterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine.

See the release announcement at here.

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Do you want to download free eBooks?

July 4, 2006 Cantu One comment

No! No piracy here! Just access the World eBook Fair site from 4/July to 4/Aug and you will be able to download many ebooks (from the 300,000 publications catalog) for free and with no need for registration. You may try search for some words like programming, databases, sql, etc.

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New FB 2.0 book will be released at FDD

July 4, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

FB2 book “Firebird 2“, my new book devoted only to the new features of Firebird 2.0 will be released at the Firebird Developers Day Conference, in Brazil at July, 29. The book is written in portuguese and will be sold with special price during the conference.

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DeZign for Databases V4.1

July 4, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

Datanamic is pleased to announce the release of DeZign for Databases V4.1, the latest version of its easy-to-use database modeling tool. DeZign for Databases V4.1, the first feature release since DeZign for Databases V4.0, includes a wide range of performance enhancements and a number functionality additions.

All the changes can be viewed here.

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Firebird 2.0 RC3 is out!

July 3, 2006 Cantu 5 comments

Builds for Windows and Linux of the new Firebird 2.0 RC3 (probably the last RC) are out. Get yours now here.

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