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!!”

Firebird Embedded reviewed

I was looking for a small and powerful database in order to fulfil the requirements of my last project. Because the database will be running locally I took the decision to use an embedded database. After a few searches over the Internet and some embedded database comparison reviews, I found Firebird which is actually a powerful but unknown (yet) relational database system. Here are some great features of the Firebird embedded database version:

Read more.

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.

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.

Kevora IDE for Firebird

New QT based IDE for Firebird Kevora

Recently, Kevora also supports Firebird or Interbase access. Despite this database does not have schemas, Kevora will place all objects below a “virtual” rdb$relations schema.

The tools we use to produce Kevora are:

    * Qt Creator or QDevelop.
    * Qt Designer.
    * Qt Linguist.
    * GCC compiler and g++ (on Linux).
    * MinGW (on Windows).
    * InstallJammer or BitRock InstallBuilder for Qt.
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