A new version (0.2.0.34) of Firebird Config tool has been released. Changes and downloads can be found here, and resumed as:
Read this and a lot of news about the next Delphi version(s) at Rob’s Technology Corner
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After a long “winter”, Jason Wharton (IBObjects author) has posted in IBO support list his plans for the next IBO releases. Check it out:
All,
I just released a new beta version of IBO. I put it in all file areas this time.
Mostly I just finished up converting the rest of the packages I had not yet converted to D2009 and I fixed a couple of the bugs on my plate. The goal of this version is to make the legacy version of IBO work in D2009 but much will remain to make it work as ideal as it should.
As soon as I knock out the remaining bugs I plan to fix and get the installer working for D2009 I will start working on IBO 5. It will be overhauled to work exclusively with Delphi 2009.
I will continue to merge fixes into the 4.x branch of source for all those not using D2009.
So, essentially, I have determined it will be best to maintain two separate source bases from then on. One to support prior versions of Delphi and one to focus on all future versions of Delphi that is extensively overhauled. Of course I will have to put together some kind of an application migration kit as well for when you want to make the jump from 4.x to 5.x.
I’m open to comments and suggestions.
Regards,
Jason Wharton
The time for nominating Firebird for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards has arrived! Firebird already won several categories in 2007, now let’s try to repeat it again! Click the button below and fill the nomination form. I suggest to nominate Firebird for the following categories:
I was looking for a small and powerful database in order to fulfil the requirements of my last project. Because the database will be running locally I took the decision to use an embedded database. After a few searches over the Internet and some embedded database comparison reviews, I found Firebird which is actually a powerful but unknown (yet) relational database system. Here are some great features of the Firebird embedded database version:
The post mentions Firebird.
Marco Cantu published in his blog that Borland (the previous owner of InterBase) was acquired by Microfocus. Read more here.
Note that InterBase, Delphi and all the other development tools owned previously by Borland was aquired by Embarcadero sometime ago (when they bought CodeGear).
I just evaluated a switch of a Firebird server from a virtual VMware server to a physical server, and the results were stunning. I measured simple select SQL statements to a very small table, and on the virtual server, more than 90% of the queries finished in more than 20ms, and the median was between 20-30ms normally, and sometimes up to 80%. The 99% percentile was out of scale.
Continue reading in Compas Pascal blog.
Ido Kanenr has released a Firebird Start Guide in Hebrew language. More information here.
