From Dmitry Yemanov – Running GBAK -C by a non-privileged user (i.e. neither SYSDBA nor database owner) causes an original database to be overwritten instead of the expected “database already exists” message.
This bug seems to be inherited from IB 6.0 and it exists in all FB versions. However, FB 2.0 is not affected due to different default restore rules.
Olympus – the next version of phpBB, includes support for Firebird. phpBB is one of the most used softwares to manage discussion forums in websites. When finished, Olympus will be released as phpBB 3.0.
This short article explains what do you need to do to get MONO applications to work with Firebird.
Nagios, the premier open source network monitoring program, is celebrating its 2.1 release. With four years of development under its belt, Nagios is powerful enough to replace expensive proprietary monitoring products and become a tool your organization can’t live without. There is a FireBird plugin available for Nagios.
Not taking any chances, however, MySQL is also developing its own transactional storage engine and will extend its transaction support by adding technologies developed by one of the creators of InterBase (which later became core technology for the Open Source Firebird project). Read more here.
From Steve Lasker’s Web Log – “I’m not familiar with the details of Firebird Embedded, so I can’t make a comparison. To capture the essence: SQL/e is a lightweight, in-proc relational database that offers a subset of the data types and TSQL syntax to provide queries over relational stored data with transactional support. The SQL/e data format can be password protected with encryption. SQL/e is based on the proven history of the Microsoft SQL Server Mobile Edition technology.”
Read more here.
“Of note was Firebird’s second place in the database category. This relational database is quietly picking up both in community interest and market share, and could rival PostgreSql and MySql in time.” – Full article here.
A new version 2.5 of IBPP, a C++ API interface for Firebird got released some days ago. Downloads from the Sourceforge project area: sourceforge.net/projects/ibpp
Documentation from the IBPP website: www.ibpp.org
This update brings some new functionalities, more complete events support and will be shortly enhanced to bring full FB 2.0 compatibility (not that it shouldn’t work with FB 2.0 as is).
Yours, Olivier Mascia
This replication suite is written in Java, and allows replication between diferent databases (ie: Firebird < -> MySQL, etc). More information here.
The storage engine being worked on at MySQL will be available this year an derives from an acquisition of it own: the company Netfrastructure, which employed a database luminary Jim Starkey and other engineers. Read more here.
[Ed: I still wonder why some articles “forget” the word “Firebird”. Even when the subject is direct or indirect related to it, they prefer to mention Ingres, MySQL, PostgreSQL or EnterpriseDB].>
