IBRest is a utility to update the data-structures of a working copy of a FireBird database with the latest data-structures in another FireBird database.
You can download it from http://ibrest.sourceforge.net
Developers who can help improve this Delphi utility with their fixes and updates are also welcome.
Kind regards
Bhavbhuti Nathwani
Another article about Mufin Music Player mentions Firebird:
The installation went smoothly, although it took a little more time than I expected because I had to download and install the open-source SQL Firebird desktop database.
Check the full article here.
The free mufin player is the first media player to know the actual sound of your music collection to let you discover, manage, and listen to your music better. The mufin player helps you discover new music easier, create playlists automatically, or repair MP3s – and much more, of course!
This article says that Mufin is using “”Firebird SQL-Server Magix Edition” (huh?!).
Now you can check in YouTube, the second sample of the Master Class video from Dmitry Yemanov:
In July/2008, Dmitry Yemanov (chief of the Firebird Development Team) was in Brazil to participate in the 5º Firebird Developers Day. He presented, to a selected number of people, a special 3h Master Class named “Firebird Performance in Detail“, discussing advanced technical aspects of Firebird RDBMS that can directly influence in the performance of the database server.
The Master Class video (screencast) is now available in the form of signed electronic download. The audio is in English. More details, including a sample video and buying link can be found here.
I’d argue that Sun needs to tighten the reins on MySQL development, not let them go. Going forward, MySQL will need to work hard if it wants to stay in front of the low-end database business. It’s no longer the reigning speed king; if fast, SQL-based storage is all you care about, SQLite is a better alternative. And competing open source databases like PostgreSQL and Firebird offer better feature sets for exactly the same price as MySQL.
Read full article in Infoworld.
Dmitry Kuzmenko posted in his blog about how you can get “broken indexes” in Firebird. It is described as indexes where key count is different from the numbers of records in the indexed table. Fortunately, FB >= 2 fixes the problem.
We received the following contact from Packt Publishing:
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I came across your website, www.firebirdnews.org while I was searching for Firebird related news and information. We would like to know if you would be interested in writing a technical article on Firebird that can be published on Packt website as a part of the article network.
We’re looking to increase the number of quality and relevant articles that we publish on PacktPub.com. We encourage people to write original articles that would be of interest to Packt readers.
Please do get in touch with me if this interests you. I would be happy to discuss the compensation for the article.
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Conference papers DVD is arrived, and you can buy directly from p-tools e-commerce site. It contains all papers and samples from 6th Firebird International Conference held in Bergamo at the end of September 2008.
Joel Pichardo reports that a Firebird fans page was created in Facebook, and he asks the community to join it.
