Bergamo – the end

Yesterday was the final day of the Intl. Firebird Conference, in Bergamo. It was really a great time, and it is always good to meet with Firebird friends. I guess this personal contact is very important for the team, and the yearly conferences is the right place to put many of the core developers together and have lots of good conversation, beer wine and fun!

I would like to thanks P-Soft (Fabio) who organized this year conference. This is not an easy task, but everything was perfect. Thanks!

I hope to meet many of you again in the next year. Go Firebird!

Carlos H. Cantu

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

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.

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