Firebird – The right choice!
I have posted to YouTube a short version of one of my talks, describing Firebird and with arguments that people can use to show to other people how good and powerful is Firebird.
The audio is in Portuguese.
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Firebird 2013 Tour
Firebird Project is glad to announce Firebird 2013 Tour – series of seminars around the world, devoted to Firebird, with members of Firebird Project as speakers.
The first seminar will be in Siegburg (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), November 22, 2013.
Firebird 2013 Tour will be devoted to all aspects of transactions, from the basic idea, to the internal implementation, best practices and guidance how to effectively use transactions in the applications, and, of course, performance analysis of transactions and related areas.
List of topics to be covered:
- Transactions from the beginning: isolation levels and specific Firebird parameters (no_rec_version, table locking, read/write, wait/nowait), examples of their usage
- How to use effectively isolation levels and parameters in multi-user applications, typical errors in transactions management
- Internal implementation of transactions in Firebird, including versioning, locking and multi-generation mechanism
- Garbage, sweep, auto-sweep: what are they and how to make them work for you and not against you
- Effective management of transactions in various development tools (Delphi, Java, .NET, etc)
- Transactions monitoring: transaction markers, MON$ tables, Trace API, third-party tools, how to find bottlenecks in transaction management and optimize database performance with monitoring
- Best practices of transaction management, special approaches to optimize transaction in closed sourced applications.
- Overview of Firebird 3.0 features
The detailed schedule of talks will be published later.
Organizer and general sponsor of Firebird 2013 Tour is IBSurgeon Ltd.
Details
Seminar will take place in http://www.kranzparkhotel.de/, Siegburg, Germany, November 22, 2013, from 09-00 to 18-00. It’s ~1hour from Cologne and 1h15min from Frankfurt (by train).
Attendee’s fees
Attendee’s fee includes seminar attendance, coffee-breaks, lunch and beverages. Room is not included.
Early bird registration is available till September 30, 2013.
Early bird registration fee – EUR 89, for group of 3+ attendees – EUR 79/person.
Regular price registration (after September 30, 2013) is EUR 109, for groups 3+ 99 eur/person.
There are limited seats, so please take your chance and register as soon as possible.
Please feel free to ask any questions to organizer’s email firebird2013@ib-aid.com
Original announcement: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-tour-2013/
Report of the 10th FDD is now on-line
The report (with pictures) of the 10th edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day Conference is now on-line (in English and Portuguese).
Donations collected in the 10th FDD
The 10th Brazilian Firebird Developers Day donations is now published. The money was donated by the attendees and sent to the Firebird Foundation. The total amount collected was R$ 4.101,24. Thanks for all who donated! Go Firebird!
Last chance to subscribe to FDD
Sorry, this is mostly for Brazilians…
Sexta-feira é o último dia para se inscrever antecipadamente para o Firebird Developers Day. Todas as informações podem ser obtidas no site do evento: www.FirebirdDevelopersDay.com.br
Protocol optimization (status update)
I got the following status update from Dmitry Yemanov, regarding the Firebird’s protocol enhancement task that is being sponsored by FDD:
I’m working on it from time to time. One of the TODO items is completed,
one more improvement came to mind and now it’s being tested. So it’s
surely will be available in FB3, at some point after Alpha 1 but before
Beta 1.
I think this is good news!
10th FDD – Subscriptions are open!
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The site of the Firebird Developers Day’s 10th edition is now up and running. Interested people can already subscribe on-line to the conference.Spread the news and come to comemorate the 10th anniversary of the biggest Firebird Conference in the world.
PS: FDD is a Brazilian conference for the Portuguese speakers community. |
isql documentation update
The manual for isql has been hugely updated, tidied up and is now online at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/html/isql.html for the html and at http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/Firebird-isql.pdf for the pdf version.If you get an older version that document 0.5 then the cache needs to be flushed.
It’s still not fully complete, but it’s a lot further down the line than before.
Cheers,
Norm.—
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
Thank you Norman, for the excellent work!
Firebird mentioned on Evans Data survey
A new survey from EvansData about Software Development Tools mentions Firebird among the preferred Database choices. You can participate in the survey (and win points to trade for prizes later) accessing http://surveys.evansdata.com/20130220.php
New version of gbak scheduler
Hi,
If anyone is interested … new version of Gbak Scheduler has been uploaded to the site https://sites.google.com/site/gbakscheduler/
What is new in version 1.0.11:
- Added per-task option to use Service Manager when performing backup.
- Added per-task option to run actions (custom programs or scripts) before and after execution of backup.
- Adden per-task option for sending an email with error details when there is an error in executing backup task.
About Gbak Scheduler:
GBAK Scheduler is an Interbase / Firebird backup utility that performs regular database backups with a user defined strategy. It is Windows service application. It has been in use since 1997.Best regards,
Simon