Also, open source database provider MySQL on Monday announced it has joined Eclipse as an Add-in Provider member. MySQL plans to contribute to the Eclipse Data Tools Platform project and collaborate with Zend Technologies and others on the proposed Eclipse PHP IDE project.
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A preview of the new board is now available at http://dnfbb.fbtalk.net/, you will need to register to see more details.
although this is an early beta, any feedback (within the dnfbb forum) is welcome.
[ED:You might notice a short delay when receiving your signup email, or password reminder requests.Here is why]
After reading a post in the Firebird forum at Devshed I immediately put up a small example about writing a trigger (and also upgraded my favourite tool, Flamerobin, to the latest version) , here it goes [ED:tutorial written by pabloj]
For those of you data hounds out there that use open source databases.
May I suggest the excellent Firebird, coupled with IBexpert, as opposed to mySQL.
I have found it a heck of a lot easier to design and implement stored procedures. It is open source and rock solid.
That is J. J. Walter’s opinion about firebird , expressed in his blog.
Meik “Acyd Burn” Sievertsen, phpBB’s Development Team Leader has just announced that the bug tracker for phpBB3 née Olympus is now open
Supported DBMS
Though developed using MySQL, the wonders of a DBAL means phpBB Olympus already supports a wide number of databases:
* Firebird (firebird) – Firebird 1.5+/Interbase 7.1+
from this thread on the orafaq forum:
“There is no way we would be able to raise the money required to buy a commercial Oracle license.”
Hello Firebird Developers,
I’m the CTO of Coverity, Inc., a company that does static source code
analysis to look for defects in code. You may have heard of us or of our
technology from its days at Stanford (the “Stanford Checker“). The
reason I’m writing is because we have set up a framework internally to
continually scan open source projects and provide the results of our
analysis back to the developers of those projects. Firebird is one of
the 32 projects currently scanned at:
Windows (setup & zip), Linux (gtk1 & gtk2), Mac OS X and source packages are available for download. Enjoy.
New features
– DDL extraction for all object types
– Rebuild View option (drop and recreate dependent objects)
– Option to drop database
Enhancements and Bug fixes
The changes in this release are as follows:
Connections to Firebird 2 database servers are now supported, a Czech translation was added, and this maintenance release fixes the few minor issues reported over the last few months.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ibwebadmin/
The RC1 tag is going to be set this week. If anybody has pending commits,
please do them. If anyone has some work in progress regarding non-regression
bugfixes, please complete it ASAP. Starting with the next week, only
regressions will be fixed.
Dmitry
[Ed: so firebird 2.0 rc1 will be here soon , and only bug fixes will be allowed]
