Author: mariuz

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MDB2_Schema is learning new tricks

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Igor is doing great work on moving forward the XML based database schema format originally developed by Manuel Lemos as part of Metabase that is used in MDB2_Schema. [ED…skiped some content]The idea behind this schema format is to make it possible to define a single database schema that can be used to create, alter and initialize databases in any number of RDBMS. For example currently MDB2_Schema supports MySQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Interbase/Firebird.

Read more on Lukas Smith’s blog [via planet mysql]

Firebird Questions .NET

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I’ve just released a new experimental site: http://www.firebirdquestions.net/.
It is a searchable and browsable archive of firebird-net-provider mailing list.

Noteworthy features:

  • Updated automatically every 60 seconds
  • Search is powered by Lucene.Net and Seekafile Server.
  • You can browse the history by threads.
  • You can skip to next/previous thread by hitting ‘j’/’k’ keys.
  • All e-mails protected.

Comments and suggestions are welcome!


Firebird: .NET Firebird

OpenDBX 1.1.2 released – firebird support added

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I can proudly announce that this release of the OpenDBX library contains a fully featured and stable backend for firebird/interbase database servers which works well with both, the classic server and the newer firebird threaded server (often called “firebird super server”). Using the firebird/interbase client library correctly is one of the more challenging tasks and therefore great news for the OpenDBX project.

* More information about OpenDBX
* Download OpenDBX

blog of the day about firebird rc3

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We actually have been deploying only super-servers, on beefy boxes with 2x dual core with 2x HT each (8x processing unit in total), because of our lack of experience in classic servers. Well, those server boxes do run other applications so you don’t get CPUs sitting there doing nothing, but I still wonder which one will be more suitable — one single super-server with shared page cache pool that can only utilise one CPU core, or multiple classic server instances that have their own page cache. However we do have up to 160 concurrent connections to the database on some of our boxes. Not sure how Win2k3 will perform with this kind of process count. Damn! Wish we can deploy them onto Linux boxes.

Read more on the FuCoder’s Blog

No Lobbysts As Such – The Fight Against Sofware Patents in Europe

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Florian Müller’s memoir-style book has been released under the Creative Commons license this month.

On 377 pages, Mueller tells the story of the legislative process that ended in July last year with a landslide vote of the European Parliament against a proposal for a software patent directive.
The book is now available on the Internet for download:
http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/NoLobbyistsAsSuch.pdf
[ED: spotted on the planet mysql , is interesting that now Redhat fights against an patent pirrate FireStar for basically “accessing an database” ]

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