Backup Firebird Databases
There are to different backup Systems in Firebird:
nBackup included in Firebird 2.0 an up
and gBak included in Firebird since humm, good old Borland days back in 199x up to the (still in beta) Firebird 2.0.
When you dont want to struggle with the commandline switches of gbak, you can use the (very useful) GUI-Frontend for gbak developed and provided for free by Talat Dogan: FIBS Firebird-Interbase Backup Scheduler
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Subscriptions to FDD are online
Brazilians who want to participate in the 3rd Firebird Developers Day, to be held in Piracicaba – SP – Brazil in 29/July, can now make their subscriptions online in the conference site.
Morfik on ZDNet
David Intersimone on Borland spin-out "DevCo"
The leadership team of DevCo includes: Nigel Brown, Michael Swindell, Steve Todd, Alan Bauer, Ben Netick, and David Intersimone. They have 3-year roadmaps for Delphi, JBuilder, and Interbase. The size of DevCo will be ~250-300 at the start, i.e. about 20% of Borland's workforce. "Develop" has $100 mln in sales, about 30% of the total. Sounds like "DevCo" will be quite profitable from the start.
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Jim Starkey: Introducing Falcon (Storage Engine for MySQL)
Last session of the MySQL UC is Jim Starkey giving an introduction to the new Falcon storage engine. Jim is an icon in the database field, was the creator of MVCC and the BLOB data type. There’s a can of Falcon beer for anyone who asks a good question.
Read the Falcon intro
[Ed :When i read the word Falcon i always associate it with Millennium Falcon, Yes Jim is fighting a good cause against evil empire ;)]
New SQL functions
From Dmitry Yemanov – Implementation of a new aggregate function LIST has been committed into the HEAD branch. It’s one of the remaining changes that weren’t ported from the Yaffil codebase yet. There are other built-in functions to port, they will be discussed in firebird-devel later this week.
Firebird Embedded Database on Linux – spotted around the blogosphere
[ED:Don’t know what was the solution to his problems , at least he is using firebird embedded;)]
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falcon (new mysql engine) will rock on fulltext searches
via Jeremy’s blog
The good news is that the recently announced falcon storage engine should have a FULLTEXT engine that rocks. After explaining the situation a bit more, we decided that in the mean time a 64-bit MySQL with a ton of RAM is probably the only viable solution.