More info about Falcon
Here you can find more information about the new MySQL engine. Falcon is the new “toy” from Jim Starkey 😉
Here you can find more information about the new MySQL engine. Falcon is the new “toy” from Jim Starkey 😉
Specially for portuguese speakers, the site of the 3rd Firebird Developers Day (due in Brazil) conference is now online. Online subscriptions will be available after 1/May. Visit the site (in portuguese) here.
Problem is the installer for firebird 2.0 rc1 currently changes permissions on /etc/services file to 600 and permisions need to be 644.
This has been posted on Firebird Devel List and is patched.
I will repost it here so others have less problems finding it.
REPOST FROM Firebird Devel List
Here are the instructions to run firebird on SME Server
Marten Mikos says that 40% of MySQL is on Windows. Taking an installed base of 5 mln, this means about 2 mln on Windows. Firebird is 70..80% on Windows, so >2 mln. Marten further wants to be partners with Microsoft. "Hi Bill, I've just hired Firebird's Jim Starkey to write Falcon and compete with SQLServer head-on. Want to be friends?"
Read more here
“At the MySQL’s fourth annual users conference, Jim Starkey, a database trailblazer with InterBase and currently a MySQL senior software architect, will discuss MySQL’s developing storage engine, code-named Falcon, said Zack Urlocker, executive vice president of marketing Cupertino, Calif.-based MySQL. The conference kicks off Monday in Santa Clara, Calif.” – Read more here.
I’ve done some changes regarding SS installation. This mainly deals with
Slackware support, but some changes concerning another things are also
done. Who interested, may try Snapshot builds from
http://www.insi.yaroslavl.ru/fb/.
Alex Peshkov
After the “Creating Firebird database programatically (Delphi)” post I’ve created the “Creating Firebird database programatically (C#/.NET)” example.
You can find it on http://blog.vyvojar.cz/jirka/archive/2006/04/20/7968.aspx.
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