Pesquisa para o FDD
Sorry, only for portuguese speakers…
Quem pretende participar da próxima edição do Firebird Developers Day no Brasil, respondam a pesquisa on-line para que saibamos quais são as suas preferências.
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 servers outage
As part of the ongoing effort to improve the reliability, availability of the project resources. The servers are being relocated into a high availability cluster, the outage should last no more than 4 hours.
Thanks for your understanding
Sean Leyne
FB 2.5 RC2 is coming
While you are reading this, Firebird 2.5 RC2 is being prepared for release. Users feedback will show if a RC3 will be needed, or if RC2 will be followed by the final release.
Firebird/RDB supported by the largest banking software maker in Russia
RedDB (based on Firebird) is now supported by BSS, the largest banking software maker in Russia. Read more (translated with Google).
Window Functions in Firebird 3
Adriano has published in his blog some information about the implementation of the OVER function in Firebird 3. Really cool.
By the SQL specification, window functions are a kind of aggregation, but which does not “filter” the result set of a query. The aggregated data is mixed with the query result set. That sort of functions are used with the OVER clause. Users of Oracle also knows window functions as analytical functions[…]
Database Master 1.7 released
Database Master is a powerful database development, management and administration software for the Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, FireBird and SQLite database systems. It allows you to manage databases, tables, views, procedures, indexes, triggers and provides productivity features for rapidly creating and executing SQL queries and connect some major database systems via ODBC and OleDb. Database Master is being imagesed for modern multi-cpu/core architecture.
From Firebird Foundation blog
Older posts here.
Login using external authentication temporary disabled
Due to an incompatibility between WordPress 2.9.x, I had to disable temporarily the RPX plugin, responsible for enabling the login of users at FirebirdNews using OpenID, Google, etc. accounts.
The bug was holding new posts to be added to the site. I will re-enable the plugin as soon this get fixed. If you need to login at the site, you will need to have a local account.
Choosing a File System on Linux for Firebird
Philippe Makowski wrote a nice article comparing the performance of Firebird database on different linux file systems.
Don’t believe benchmarks made by someone other than yourself !
Read it here.
FBNews is back ;-)
Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉