Want to run Firebird on Windows Vista?
Check out this blog post from Dmitry Kouzmenko about how to run FB on Vista and not loose performance.
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!
The Ideal Database for Your Business?
This paper from CodeGear tries to convince users that InterBase 2007 is the best database for them. It even mentions “alternatives” like MySQL, PostgreSQL and …FIREBIRD 1.5!
Of course, like any marketing paper, it tries to show that IB is the best option 😉 But it is curious that they decided to compare IB 2007 with FB 1.5 (instead of 2.0). Also, it seems that most of their “complaints” about FB, like the lack of SMP support, etc. are features that are currently being merged from Vulcan into Firebird 3. The matter of Firebird not having an official support “entity” is shown as a “problem”, but I totally disagree with this, since there is a huge and very active community offering (very good) support for free in discussion lists, and some comercial companies too. I believe that currently Firebird support is even better than IB support from CodeGear.
Anyway, the simple fact that FB is mentioned probably will attract some attention to the project 😉
FB wishlist in Indonesia
There is a discussion going on in a Indonesian Delphi forum about Firebird wishlist. You can check it here.
Choosing the right database management system
Article published in ComputerWeekly mentions Firebird.
Vote in our new poll!
I would like to request that every FirebirdNews visitor vote in our (new) poll. You can do this just looking at the sidebar (visible in the main page), choosing your answer and clicking “Vote”. Very quick and easy.
nBackup tests
Dmitry Kouzmenko writes about new nBackup tool in his blog.
Evans Data Survey mentions Firebird
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Ed. Note: Firebird is mentioned in 3 questions.
Pascal Data Objects
Unsatisfied with the available libraries for object Pascal to connect to various databases with a standard API, I created “Pascal Data Objects” which is loosely patterned after PHP Data Objects, and originally supported MySQL 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 using native client libraries. I recently moved the project to Sourceforge ( pdo.sourceforge.net ) and added support for Firebird 1.5 and 2.0.
PDO is licensed LGPL as it contains some code from Zeoslib, which is LGPL. One particularly nice thing about my implementation of the Firebird drivers is that I built in “prefetch” support. By default, the driver prefetches the entire result set and stores it internally so that functions that depend on knowing how big a result set is before accessing the data can be supported. There is also some data abstraction functions.
The source code is packaged at Sourceforge and works on Delphi and Free Pascal Compiler, tested and used in both Windows and FreeBSD programs. If you decide that this is newsworthy, then I’ll leave the wording up to you.
Regards,
John (J.R.Marino — firebirdnews @ marino.st)
SQLAlchemy 0.3.4 release is now available
SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL. It provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language.
Changes in firebird module:
- order of constraint creation puts primary key first before all other constraints; required for firebird, not a bad idea for others ticket:408]
- Firebird fix to autoload multifield foreign keys [ticket:409]
- Firebird NUMERIC type properly handles a type without precision [ticket:409]
Download it at http://www.sqlalchemy.org/
Garbage Collection problem in IB/FB
Dmitry Kouzmenko just posted a new article in his blog, describing currently Garbage Collection problems with both IB and FB. Very interesting reading!
His blog has other interesting posts, you really should read it.