Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
64 bit Firebird 2.5, and Solaris Sparc
Looks like the job is already done… Paul wrote on the blog . It was posted on devel-mailing list related to solaris threading using pthreads
“I confirm that the issues are fixed in HEAD. I confirmed this on 64-bit Solaris Sparc, built with the Sun Studio native compiler – using pthreads!!!”
How cool is that! Thanks very much guys for the quick turn-around.
Also, big thanks to Alex for his assitance with this port!!”
Cross Database Queries in Firebird seems to be an hot topic
On devshed forums Cross Database Queries seems to be a hot related topic (more than 1200 views)
JbConsole 0.2.0 released
JbConsole is a Firebird console tool. I have tested with Jython 2.5b3 and Jaybird 2.1.6 .
(java 1.6 on Windows XP and java 1.5 on OS X 10.5)
It’s still toy level, but it seems to be sample implementation of Jaybird and Jython.
http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nakagami/Download/JbConsole_0_2_0.zip
See the screen shot
http://nakagami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2009-02-09
ED:Translated with google , I like his words about Jython
Swing and Java (JVM) I fast. 驚いた。 I was surprised.
Firebird 2.1.2 in Mandriva 2009.1
Here is the bug request for inclusion but it was already fixed in Mandriva 2009.1
Firebird included in Fedora Linux
Firebird is included now in Fedora repositories (rank 4 on distrowatch), You can follow the history on this page , Also builds ok on Enterprise Redhat Distro
What is next? :php , flamerobin and kinterbasdb for fedora
DbBench released
My project “DbBench” is opend on sourceforge.net.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbbench/
This product can benchmark firebird and mysql on same code using
delphi2009 with dbexpress.
Still now, documents are nothing, comments in source is in japanese.
But executable is shipping with delphi’s resource dll, then in english
environment this can shows english appearance( maybe!).
Please use it if it is good.
Tsutomu Hayashi
Invitation to benchmark your Firebird environment
my blog entry doesn’t show up yet, so a more information about that here …
I’ve made a ready-to-use TPC-H benchmark package for Firebird available
for download here:
http://www.iblogmanager.com/download/misc/tpch/tpch_firebird.zip
Feel free to use this package to benchmark your Firebird environment in
different server configurations, various page sizes, page buffers, …
Please read the included readme.txt file. This shall have everything
included for running the benchmark. I would highly appreciate if you
could share your results as described in 6) in the readme.txt.
If you have any questions, doubts, feel free to get in touch with me.
Thanks.
Sinática Monitor 2.0 Beta
Sinática Monitor 2.0 for Firebird SQL is born.
You may download a Beta and read about what’s new.
Firebird 2.1.2 in debian unstable , ubuntu packages soon
Here is the package for Firebird 2.1.2 in debian unstable I have installed it this way (the small install bug is already fixed in git)
sudo apt-get install firebird2.1-super
dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-super