Wings of Wind blog just posted the results of polls about Delphi 64bits and 4GB support. In the workarounds section, he mentions Firebird:
Use the 64-bit version of Firebird configured to keep the data in memory. It has the advantage that you have a full blown 64-bit SQL server (so, no AWE paging etc.) […]
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Now, if you have an account with Google, OpenID, Yahoo or Blogger, you can login and post comments to FirebirdNews without the need to create a local account! This simplifies a lot the login/account handling process, and I hope we will start to see much more comments to the posts!
To use the new feature, just click the “log in” link (at the SideBar “Meta” section) and choose what provider you wanna use.
If you already have a local FirebirdNews account, sign-in using your local username/password, edit your profile, and use the option to link your local account to any of the supported log-in providers, and you are done!
From Firebird Surgeon blog:
As you know, IBSurgeon was a publisher of “The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine” (or shortly IBDeveloper) in 2005 and 2006. There were 4 issues which attracted a lot of interest (up to 20000 of readers) but at that time there was no way to monetize it, so IBSurgeon decided to close the magazine as a redundant line of business.
Now we’ve put all issues of IBDeveloper to Scribd for easy reading and full text search indexing. You know, there are still “all times greatest hits” articles and materials (like one regarding locking in Firebird by Ann W. Harrison in Issue 2).
Read full post and check the magazines here.
I have updated the FirebirdNews site with two new WordPress plugins, allowing people to reply comments, and vote for posts. Both options are very easy to use, and probably you already noticed how to use them 😉
The intention is that FirebirdNews readers also participate/interact with the site. Go on! Vote for your preferred posts, and don’t hesitate to post comments if you think you have something to say!
Dr. Dobbs published a review of the new Delphi 2010, and mentions the new official support for Firebird:
RAD Studio 2010 database drivers have also been updated to support the latest well-known name SQL DBMS’s including IBM DB2 8, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, MySQL 5.1 and Oracle 11g. Also added to this release is support for the sexy, high-performance, open-source Firebird 1.5 RDBMS, showing that Embarcadero is hip with the times by not standing idle with just supporting updates for the entrenched players.
From IBSurgeon on Tweeter – Harvard Business School: “The Business of Free Software” http://bit.ly/3Hn4ZV Firebird is in top 20 OSS list – not clear how it was counted.
Today I needed to convert a Delphi/Pascal code to Firebird PSQL. Part of the code used the integer value of a date to do some calcs. First, I tried to use Firebird CAST to convert a Date to Integer, but FB can’t do this type of cast (anyway, I’m not sure if the result would be the same as Delphi, since I don’t know what starting date Firebird uses for internal storage). So, the solution was to create a workaround and subtract the date from 30-December-1899 (Dublin Julian Day), ie:
my_int_var = current_date – cast(‘30.12.1899’ as date);
The above line will return the integer value of the today date, as Delphi/Pascal would do. In other words, it is the number of days since 30-Dec-1899.
Which of the following databases are most used within your organization?
You can participate in this survey and vote for Firebird clicking here.
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Acaba de ser lançado o FDD MegaPack DVD, contendo palestras da segunda, quarta, quinta e sexta edições do Firebird Developers Day. Pedidos on-line através do site da FireBase.
The team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 2.1.3, with kits available for Linux and Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. For notes about the release, click here.
