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!
New SQL functions
From Dmitry Yemanov – Implementation of a new aggregate function LIST has been committed into the HEAD branch. It’s one of the remaining changes that weren’t ported from the Yaffil codebase yet. There are other built-in functions to port, they will be discussed in firebird-devel later this week.
Firebird mentioned in two articles
IT-Director.com – A phenomenon of Open Source has been that a single product normally emerges in any given category. Firefox (browser), Linux (OS), Apache (Web Server) and JBoss (middleware stack) are all examples. The only market where more than one product seems to have emerged is database—which is dominated by MySQL, but also served by FireBird, SleepyCat, Ingres and others. – Read more here.
ZDNet – MySQL is not alone in that thinking. Other established open-source databases include PostgreSQL and Firebird. – Read more here.
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Firebird Foundation blog
FF just started its own blog. You can check the first posts here.
More info about Falcon
Here you can find more information about the new MySQL engine. Falcon is the new “toy” from Jim Starkey 😉
Firebird Developers Day site is now online!
Specially for portuguese speakers, the site of the 3rd Firebird Developers Day (due in Brazil) conference is now online. Online subscriptions will be available after 1/May. Visit the site (in portuguese) here.
Birds, Dolphins and now… Falcons (isn’t Falcon a bird?)
“At the MySQL’s fourth annual users conference, Jim Starkey, a database trailblazer with InterBase and currently a MySQL senior software architect, will discuss MySQL’s developing storage engine, code-named Falcon, said Zack Urlocker, executive vice president of marketing Cupertino, Calif.-based MySQL. The conference kicks off Monday in Santa Clara, Calif.” – Read more here.
FDD will have 3 international speakers
The 3rd Firebird Developers Day Brazilian conference will count with the presence of Holger Klemt (IBExpert), Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon/IBDeveloper magazine) and Ann Harrison (IBPhoenix) as international speakers (along with many Brazilian speakers).
FDD can be a great oportunity for South American people to have contact with great names of the Firebird community, specially if they don’t want to spent a lot of money going to the International Conference (in Prague/Czech Republic).
The conference will take place in Piracicaba-SP, at 29 July (whole day).
Interesting articles
I just found two new interesting articles in “About” site:
Two-Tier or n-Tier? – What one is better for you?
The ACID Model – Discusses the ACID concept used in many databases, including Firebird.