99 Bottles of Beer in Firebird relational database SQL
Ok, I agree it is not too much useful, but it is fun:
99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-firebird-sql-257.html
😉
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!
Warning about just released RC 5
From Dmitry Yemanov:
Windows builds of Firebird 2.0 Release Candidate 5 have been released with an issue related to the INTL support. This is not a bug in the code, but a build/packaging issue. One of the ICU libraries (icudt30.dll) got built wrongly. We apologize for inconvenience, the builds are to be fixed and re-released shortly. In the meantime, icudt30.dll from the RC4 package would fix the issue.
Npara uses Firebird
From code.google.com/p/npara/
Npara allows a user to find similar images or audio files
Npara identifies audio and video files by creating an index of sub fingerprints, aproximately 255 fingerprints per file. These fingerprints are stored in a firebird database.
Partial tracks or partial images can be recognized, even if they contain significant noise or distortion
Firebird 2.0 RC5 is out
Get your copy now! Probably this will become FB 2.0 final release 🙂
Berkeley DB now have Snapshot
Oracle Juices Up Berkeley DB – Oracle spruced up one of its recently acquired embeddable databases, Berkeley DB, releasing on Sept. 27 Version 4.5 with multi-version concurrency control and more.
This is old news for Firebird/InterBase users. MGA (or Versioning) architecture, used in FB/IB, was born with Snapshot isolation for transactions.
Firebird in Dicas-L
Luiz Paulo just published an article (in portuguese) in Dicas-L site. Dicas-L is visited by thousands of computer users in Brazil. The link to the article “Firebird news around the world” is here.
Huge test case for Firebird at SOFTOOL’06
Alexey Kovyazin and Dmitry Yemanov were present at Softool 2006, showing a really big test drive for Firebird:
The test used a Russian ERP called Avarda connecting a Firebird 2.0 Classic server. Environment was 30 desktops and 1 power server imitating Avarda working with 100 simulatenous clients accessing a 120Gb Firebird database with 700 million records! Server was a SMP machine (2 CPUs – Dell PowerEdge 2950) and 6GB RAM.
You can see a small video from Softool with Alexey and Dmitry Yemanov here.
BDP for Firebird
I’ve sucessfully added and tested building of Borland Data Provider from 1.7 sources.
Now you can find on http://netprovider.cincura.net , weekly builds of ADO.NET provider from 2.0 sources. DDEX provider. And BDP (.NET 1.1).
Any comments or reports are welcome.
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Jiri {x2} Cincura
http://blog.vyvojar.cz/jirka/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com
Firebird and Alfresco CMS
Posted by: “maximshiryaev” MaximShiryaev.at.mail.ru
Date: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:24 am (PDT)
Hello.
Some time ago I’ve been evaluating Alfresco – an opensource CMS. Its stack is this: MySQL -> Hibernate -> SpringFramework -> tomcat -> Web interface.
Since all other systems in our company use Firebird as a database back-end I’ve decided to move Alfresco to Firebird.
Here are the steps:
SQLObject SQLObject 0.7.1 released
From Oleg Deribas:
There is new 0.7.1 version of SQLObject – Object Relational Manager for
python programming language: sqlobject.orgSQLObject supports firebird: sqlobject.org/SQLObject.html#id6
And there is another popular ORM for python – SQLAlchemy which supports firebird also.