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Holger Klemt talks about Firebird at the 2009 European OpenSQLCamp, part of FrOSCon 2009.
Via pytian blog (Sheeri Cabral)
The full presentation will come asap
No’am Newman wrote again about his Bde to Firebird date migration issues:
In continuation of my previous post about problems of inserting/update date fields in FB databases, I did a little poking around and eventually – by trial and error – found the correct syntax:
update data
set datefield = ’01/01/2008′
where id = 1;
No’am Newman wrote about using Firebird:
I’ve spent the last week getting Firebird to work in my occupation psychologist’s office.
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So this week, I’ve learnt the following thingshow to install FB on a network
how to access FB from client computers on that network
how to use the list view component
how to use an FB generator for auto-incremented integers
how to insert/update a date into an FB table[to do]
That’s enough for one week.
The question is on StackOverflow:
I am trying to choose between postgre and firebird databasses. The database will be installed on a windows 2003 server with asp.net 3.5. i don’t want to use sql server because of price issues and I don’t want MySQL I had a bad experience with it and the .net connector and the membership provider.
Douglas Tosi wrote on his blog :
This week I received the Brazilian Active Delphi magazine with a pleasant surprise. My very fist published article.
The XP team is proud to announce the release of 5.7.4. This release features various improvements to the rdbms API:
Jeff Overcash originally made it clear, that IBX doesn’t officially support Firebird, and he has no intention to implement it. Many point at IBObjects and now DBExpress for Firebird support, so why use IBX? Here’s a reason
Another interesting email conversation between a developer and Dimitry Yemanov (Firebird core developer) produced this information
We have made 1 terabyte database test with Firebird 2.1. Read more. Questions?
Summary
In this experiment Firebird shows the following resultsUndoubted ability to handle big databases. We are pretty sure that it’s possible to create and use 32 Tb database on appropriate hardware, and Firebird will show the same high performance as it shows for smaller databases (i.e., 1Tb and below).
Good scalability and amazingly small footprint. 1Tb database was created at usual desktop computer and, more important, it can be used to perform general queries: if you don’t fetch millions of records, query’s speed is the same as it is for moderate size databases (10-15Gb).
