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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 x InterBase 2009
Paul Beach posted some comments about the SDTimes article “InterBase 2009 comes with multicore support” in his blog. Don’t forget to take a look at them.
What page size should I use?
It’s a common question with interesting background from developers . As I can suppose from IBSurgeon statistics, 99% of Firebird and InterBase developers use default page size: since the old ages it is 1024 bytes, and only for Firebird 2.0 it is changed to 4096 by default. There are 4 main things related with page size: indices depth, database cache size, records per page quantity and disk cluster size.
The shortest answer to this question is to use 4k, 8k or 16k page size. That’s it.
If you want to go a bit deeper, keep reading…
Marco Cantu talks about FBConference
Know your server
Article in SinĂ¡tica blog talks about architectural differences between SQL Server and Firebird.
OpenSQL Camp
Open-source databases have become quite prominent over the last decade, in large installations as well as small ones. MySQL and PostgreSQL are the best-known open-source databases, but SQLite, Firebird, and CouchDB are also popular in some corners, and offer compelling features of their own. In some cases, users aren’t even aware that they have installed a database: For example, the Firefox Web browser comes with an installation of SQLite, which it uses to manage preferences and passwords.
Read full article here.
Windows Authentication in FB 2.1
Mario Cornejo talks about the Windows Authentication feature introduced in Firebird 2.1 in his blog. With this feature, you can login to your database using a Windows user.
VM with FB+Ubuntu+Mondrian
There is a Firebird VMware applicance available for download. It contains: Ubuntu 8.04 x86, Firebird V2.1.1 (SuperServer) and Mondrian V3.0.4 with their foodmart example already set up with Firebird.
Delphi 2009 is out
But still no “official” support for Firebird, as Nick Hodges states in this podcast. BUT, rumors says that there will be news about this in the future.
Anyway, Firebird users has tons of third party access components (IBO, FIBPlus, InterXpress, UIB, Zeos, etc. etc.) to be used with Delphi so, no official support doesn’t mean any big problem for us.
Check the press release information here. This is the first Delphi version released after CodeGear was sold to Embarcadero.
Get IBProvider with 20% discount!
All attendees of the 6th world-wide Firebird Conference can order IBProvider Professional Edition with 20% discount . Check more here.