Firebird 2.5 Architecture
Firebird 2.5 Architecture, by Dmitry Yemanov (presentation given at the 2008 Firebird Conference).
Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
#MoinMoin 2.0 #Wiki engine adds #SQLAlchemy backend storage
During Summer of Code 2009 Christopher became a student for the MoinMoin wiki project.He worked on a SQLAlchemy backend that (in theory) allows you to run MoinMoin on a variety of database flavors including Firebird using sqlalchemy
data abstraction layer
Differences between Firebird and InterBase, part 1: 32bit and 64bit
People from IBSurgeon started a serie of posts pointing actual differences between Firebird and InterBase. Many people still thinks that Firebird is kind of “free InterBase”, but the two projects are now quite different.
Read the first part about 32 and 64 bits support.
Firebird optimizer
IBSurgeon posted information about Firebird Optimizer including a presentation by Dmitry Yemanov. Check it out:
Howto and patches:Raw SSD devices on Windows and Firebird 2.5 embedded
A very interesting thread about using Firebird embedded on Raw devices (SSD) , this way bypasing filesystem overhead
Engine has nearly complete support for raw disks on Windows (useful
for new SSD devices)
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We found this Firebird feature useful for very fast SSD devices where
filesystem layer creates a big deal of overhead.
Firebird Scalability slides from Dmitry Yemanov
IBSurgeon posted slides of a great presentantion by Dmitry Yemanov about Firebird Scalability.
Note: You can also check a great FB Performance MasterClass video from Dmitry here.
Understanding System Audit – fbtrace what it does ?
Thomas it’s not so sure what it is even after he read the release notes and fbtrace.conf documentation , and Vlad gave one example how it should look the trace log
“I read the release notes and the comments in fbtrace.conf over and over
again, but I’m not sure what the system audit should do. 😉 “
ED:I was confused too about what it does even after all was set in the configuration
Firebird Git 2.5 repository for #ubuntu and #debian updated
What’s New in Firebird 2.1.x presentation
What’s New in Firebird 2.1 – Detailed Presentation by Vladislav Khorsun http://bit.ly/uONKf
Via ibsurgeon tweet
Patch of the Day:Allow to open databases on network shares / SMB in Windows
The following patch was applied that allows to open databases on network shares in Windows using RemoteFileOpenAbility parameter in firebird.conf
Patch allows remote shadows as well and it will be implemented in 2.5 RC 1
Yes, it does. Creating shadow copy on network share (SMB) mounted as
local disk was succesfull.