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Spring sale: 25% discount on database tools at Upscene

May 4, 2006 Martijn Tonies Leave a comment

Upscene Productions announces a Spring Sale with 25% discount on all database developer tools!

Currently available from Upscene Productions:

Database Workbench
A multi-database engine development IDE, currently supporting Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, InterBase, Firebird, MySQL and NexusDB.

IB LogManager Suite
An auditing/logging suite for InterBase & Firebird.

MSSQL LogManager Suite
An auditing/logging suite for Microsoft SQL Server.

ADS LogManager Suite
An auditing/logging suite for Advantage Database.

NDB LogManager Suite
An auditing/logging suite for NexusDB.

Advanced Data Generator
A comprehensive test data generator tool with support for ADO/ODBC connectivity or specialized versions for InterBase, Firebird or MySQL.

InterXpress for Firebird
A dbExpress driver for Firebird supporting Delphi 6 – 2006 and Kylix 3.

When purchasing, enter coupon code SPRINGSALE2006 to get your discount.

More information about Upscene Productions products at http://www.upscene.com

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Milliseconds are now stored in the timestamp KInterbasDB + Firebird

May 4, 2006 mariuz 2 comments

David Rushby (the autor of the KInterbasDB) has
solved the problem applying such a feature in the code. Thank you David.

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Jaybird V2.1.0 Beta 1 has been released

May 4, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

Jaybird V2.1.0 Beta 1 has been released and is available for download.

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“Free” Databases: Express vs. Open-Source RDBMSs

May 4, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

Open-source databases are gaining IT mindshare at a rapid pace. As an example, BusinessWeek‘s February 6, 2006 “Taking On the Database Giants” article asks “Can open-source upstarts compete with Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft?” and then provides the answer: “It’s an uphill battle, but customers are starting to look at the alternatives.”

What are the alternatives to Apache and PostgreSQL?

May 4, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird and Multi Version Concurrency Control – why is so good

May 4, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

Spotted on dotnetfirebird blog
A nice white paper by Roman Rokytskyy that describes the multi version concurrency control system used in Firebird in comparison to IBM DB2 and Oracle 9i.

I found this quote on the Hibernate Tuning blog: [Ed:They linked to the Roman’s Page , Scroll down to “db2 and friends”]

In fact glaring are the benchmarks published by MySQL. I’d put to you that MVCC support is probably more important than a lot of other concerns in transactional computing (as opposed to batch processing and OLTAP type stuff)

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Updated Downloads at dotnetfirebird.org

May 4, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

I’ve updated the downloads page to show the most recent versions:

Firebird Server for Windows 1.5.3
Firebird Embedded for Windows 1.5.3
Firebird Server for Windows 2 RC1
Firebird Embedded for Windows 2 RC1
Firebird ADO.NET Provider 1.7.1 for .NET Framework 1.1
FirebirdClient 2 RC3 for .NET Framework 2.0

Posted by Dan : @ dotnetfirebird.org

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Ingres: Can You Ever Go Back?

May 4, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

[ED:worth reading it – a short intro to ingres history ]

Firebird database support in Fogbugz ?

May 2, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

in 2005 Yoel mentioned that in the future
maybee Firebird would also be supported
as a backend database for FogBugz, any
news on that ?

Rob Segerink
SnapIT

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Backup Firebird Databases

May 2, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

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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