Firebird 2.5 is out!
Don’t forget to join the webinar using the link (13h GMT):
www.livemeeting.com/cc/fbcon2010/join?id=46D79S&role=attend
Philippe Makowski (president of the Firebird Foundation) and Dmitry Yemanov (chief of the development team) will be present.
Firebird 2.5 release date is set to October 4, 2010.
Please join Philippe Makowski, President of Firebird Foundation, and Dmitry Yemanov, lead Firebird developer, at the Launch Webinar devoted to the 5th major release of Firebird. It will take place at October 4, 2010, at 13-00 GMT.
Link for Firebird 2.5 Webinar is
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/fbcon2010/join?id=46D79S&role=attend
If you have any questions regarding Firebird 2.5, please feel free to contact us: launch@mindthebird.com
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The Russian Firebird Conference has just finished, with 114 attendees! You can check some pictures here.
PS: Curious about FB 2.5 (final) release date? Well, start the countdown! More about this….. soon 😉
матрациThose who are new to the Classic version of Firebird on Linux may find interesting that, while running gbak to backup a database, accessing the DB file locally (not by tcp/ip, etc), you will not find a fb_inet_server proccess serving the gbak connection. This is because, in this specific situation, gbak works in embedded mode. Alex Peshkov says this provides the best performance results.
Philippe Makowski posted this at fb-devel:
Hi,
I found this bench : http://tokutek.com/products/iibench/
(http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mdcallag/mysql-patch/mytools/annotate/head%3A/bench/ibench/iibench.py)
and aibench.py:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mdcallag/mysql-patch/mytools/annotate/head%3A/bench/ibench/aibench.pyI made a Firebird version of both. You can download them here : http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/rabbits/pmakowski/
If you find them useful, I will put them in the svn QA repository
Firebird is among the listed options in this StackOverflow question. Let’s “up” it 😉
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Great news: Firebird 2.5 final release is being prepared.
The introductory document “Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes” was translated to Arabic by Khaled Shagrouni! You can find it here.
