Evans Data Survey mentions Firebird
You can vote to Firebird in the new Evans Data Survey about Open Source Development:
http://surveys.evansdata.com/survey.php?ID=EDC_OSS_2010_1
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!
Win 1 year license of Dataguard
IBSurgeon is offering an one year license of FB Dataguard for free to anyone participating in the MindTheBird campaign. Check the details here.
Offer valid until 10/August/2010.
DDL Execution Architecture
Adriano posted about DDL execution artchitecture, its flaws and new improvements for FB 3.
Here I’m going to explain how Firebird DDL commands works in the architecture, why it stops innovation and how it is supposed to work in Firebird 3.0.
DDL in FB works more or less like DML, so first a briefly explanation of how DML works. When a DML command is prepared, it starts in the parser constructing a tree of nodes. That nodes are all a single pointer type, used for all node types and others usages (like storing constants). A node have a list of child nodes.
Real full post here.
Happy Birthday!
FDD donations to Firebird Foundation
The Brazilian Firebird Developers Day was able to collect R$ 4.500 as donations to Firebird Foundation. Money was already transfered. I wish to thanks all the donors! This is the biggest value ever collected at FDD.
Free tool for MindTheBird participants!
Hello All,
Good news for all MindTheBird participants – Nucleon Software http://www.nucleonsoftware.com offers free license of there “Database Master” software for all participants of MindTheBird.
If you would like to get such license, please send to free at mindthebird.com email with the following information: “FirstName”, “LastName”, E-Mail, optionally Company name, and get free license of DatabaseMaster (they will be sent in 2-3 work days).
We encourage all tools vendor to run similar programs for MindTheBird participants, and, of course, we ask everyone to join MindTheBird! to support Firebird and to get benefits and prizes.
To join MindTheBird! you just need to put one of MindTheBird! banners or presentations (http://www.mindthebird.com/downloadmtb.html) to your web-site or blog, link it to www.mindthebird.com or to www.firebirdsql.org and send us link to this page for verification.
Best regards,
MindTheBird Team
Falcon Programming supporting Firebird
Posted in Firebird-Devel:
Hello Firebird-Developers/Users,
FalconPL, a new and fast-growing programming language had included FirebirdSQL support as High Priority in their TODOs.
Firebird Database Server module driver for DBI system
Type: Module binding Difficulty: Intermediate Required skills: C++ (high), database (basic) Time frame: 30 days Mentoring: High This idea consists of creating a binary native module using the Falcon multi-platform C++ SDK to provide an interface to the Firebird database server through the DBI abstract interface system.The resulting module shall use the Falcon Service interface to expose methods used by the DBI system to access database resources. Other than that, the applicant shall implement a set of functions interfacing directly the Firebird database API which can be called directly by scripts bypassing the DBI interface.The applicant will be in charge of designing an interface to the module functionality, implement it in C++, document it through the faldoc integrated module documentation system, provide code samples and automated unit test for evaluation by faltest.The work will be evaluated based on the elegance of the interface, efficiency in terms of memory footprint and CPU consumption, completeness of the documentation (including samples) and on readability of the produced code. Extra consideration will be granted to work that promotes the uniquely multi-paradigm approach of the Falcon Programming Language in the interface provided to the final users. Top evaluation is given if the final work also provides a Falcon Service exposing the same functionalities provided to scripts via a C++ interface.Facts Table:
http://www.falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=factsAbout Falcon:
http://www.falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=aboutAnd here’s the newsgroup:
http://groups.google.com/group/falconplMaybe somebody is interested to collaborate with the FalconPL creator (Giancarlo Nicolai) in adding and implementing the FirebirdSQL support.
Thanks and best regards,
Mario Sabado
7th Firebird Developers Day – big success
IBSurgeon at FDD
From IBSurgeon blog:
7th Firebird Developers Days: Visit IBSurgeon’s presentations
17th of July, Piracicaba, Brazil: The 7th Firebird Developers Day will take place in the UNIMEP university theatre. This is undoubtedly the biggest worlwide event devoted to Firebird – more that 600 people, dozen of speakers and lot of interest.
As you may knows, Brazil is the N1 country in terms of number of Firebird users (following with Germany, Russia and USA), and Firebird is the number 1 database in Brazil too.
This will be 4th time IBSurgeon sponsors and presents at FDD. This year Dmitry Kuzmenko will speak about big Firebird databases (you may remember that recently we did test with 1Terabyte Firebird database) and about speed of test restores.
Also at this event IBSurgeon will announce some serious changes in licensing policy, intended to encourage people to treat Firebird databases in more careful way.
We will follow the results of conference and post updates here.
Firebird Embedded in comparison to SQL Server Compact Edition 4
Scott Guthrie recently posted article about New Embedded Database Support with ASP.NET. This made me think about other options, Firebird in particular, and advantages and disadvantages. What I’m going to do is to introduce Firebird Embedded here and compare with features Scott wrote.
Read full post at Jiri Cincura blog.