Firebird News

Firebird for ISV – Business advantages

Cantu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:49:38 +0000

Dmitry Kuzmenko posted a presentation about the subject: Firebird for ISV: Business Advantages (in English), by Dmitry Kuzmenko, IBSurgeon View more presentations from Nataly Polyanskaya.

#Sql #Puzzle: What the following code do?

mariuz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:12:37 +0000

Ido Kanner created the following code in his database that works with Firebird SQL . Could you tell what it does ? ps: This week the answer was posted , but you can first try it without reading the answer.

Benchmarks with Firebird, #MySQL and #PostgreSQL

mariuz — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:33:53 +0000

From Tomneko (Tsutomu Hayashi) I tested Firebird, MySQL and PostgreSQL with my DbBench on HP ML115G5. This presentation was already done in japan. ( It’s now uploaded to google docs) You can view odp presentation here also ppt version is here It’s up to SlideShare too for thouse who like flash or want to embed it in the blogs. http://www.slideshare.net/tomneko/firebird25-benchmarksenglish20091031

Database Workbench 3.4.2 released

Martijn Tonies — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:28 +0000

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular database development tools: ” Database Workbench 3.4.2 “ This release includes the Pro and Lite Editions. Version 3.4.2 includes bugfixes in addition to the new features in previous versions. Changes Highlights in 3.4 and previous versions ————————————————— - NexusDB v3 support - Many diagramming improvements - Better Stored Routine Debugger - Ability to cancel [...]

#Sequel 3.6.0 Released – lightweight database access toolkit for #Ruby

mariuz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:42:08 +0000

Sequel 3.6.0 has been released and should be available on the gem mirrors. The 3.6.0 release adds numerous improvements:

#Lazarus #FreePascal #IDE 0.9.28.2 released

mariuz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:22:52 +0000

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.28.2 release. This release is based on freepascal 2.2.4. The list of changes can be found here

Hot out of the oven #CakePHP 1.3 #alpha

mariuz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:18:27 +0000

The CakePHP development team is happy to release the alpha build of CakePHP 1.3.

Installing #Perl DBI driver for Firebird #RDBMS server – guide updated for #Ubuntu #karmic

mariuz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:58:01 +0000

I have updated the tutorial for Firebird 2.1 Classic and Ubuntu Karmic Koala Related to this question about how to do the perl driver install on Ubuntu Karmic

Installing #PHP 5.3.x On #Ubuntu #Karmic with Firebird #PDO support

mariuz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:52:12 +0000

There is no php 5.3 in Ubuntu Karmic so we have to compile it with firebird support and pdo (seems that some pdo bugs are fixed in 5.3)

#phpBB 3.0.6 Release Candidate 4 released with Firebird fixes

mariuz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:58:46 +0000

In an effort to increase product stability we are happy to announce the availability of the fourth release candidate for the next release – phpBB 3.0.6. This fourth release candidate contains mostly regression fixes. Everyone able to should test this release and report critical bugs (those, stopping the operation of the forum) and issues to the [...]

FBCon 2009 München – #.NET + Firebird will be there

mariuz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:41:53 +0000

Jiří {x2} Činčura wrote on his blog You can find info about conference at firebird-conference.com. I’ll be speaking there too, hence if you’re interested in Firebird and .NET you should definitely come. Every day I have one session. I’ll be covering new (2.5+) protocol implementation in .NET client for Firebird 2.1, Entity Framework support (also new [...]

Performance issues on #Intel CPUs vs #Amd ones

mariuz — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:54:44 +0000

Alexander Peshkoff wrote on Firebird-devel One of our users, GLDS, has found that firebird 2.5 (64-bit mode) runs on some very simple tests 2 times slower compared with firebird 1.5. I’ve checked it on my box and could not reproduce a problem. Afterwards it became known that my box is amd, in GLDS – intel. Therefore I’ve decided to compare [...]

Docbuilding Howto updated

mariuz — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:28:13 +0000

The Docbuilding Howto has been updated. A warning and a workaround have been added regarding the problems that can occur if you check out the manual module into a path that contains spaces or other non-alphanumerical characters. For a complete list of changes (this is especially important for translators) see the Document History (Revision 1.6): [...]

Libdbi firebird driver progress

mariuz — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:18:36 +0000

With Libdbi – a database independent abstraction layer written in C , you can see the new tests status with latest code from cvs

Firebird and Flamerobin in the #fedora 12 release notes

mariuz — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:16:25 +0000

In the Applications Databases section from release notes on Fedora core 12 we can see the new Firebird and Flamerobin packages for it