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“Alguém duvida que o Firebird é o melhor banco de dados?”

Hello All,

There is “Testimonials” section at the test version of new FirebirdSQL site http://www.firebirdtest.com/en/testimonials/

Please devote 5 minutes of your time and write testimonial  – i.e., your
impression about Firebird. Nothing special, just several words about Firebird experience or, even  simpler – short description and link to the enterprise which uses Firebird.

Testimonials are important to demonstrate number of Firebird users and their satisfaction.

After new web-site launch all valid testimonials from the test site will
be moved to production version.

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin

Inline with our department’s ideologies to use open source systems, I am now using Lazarus as my front end and Firebird as my backend. It’s almost 2 year that i’ve been using firebird (started by ver 2.1.2) and i really find it a great database. I just started with Lazarus and so far, im already getting the hang of it!

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Short link for Firebird SQL page at Facebook.com: www.facebook.com/FirebirdSQL

FirebirdSQL page at Facebook – join now http://goo.gl/radCw

Alexander Potapchenko is happy to announce that he has released the v.2.0 ODBC/JDBC driver for Firebird. Access the What’s New document, sources and binaries for Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit HERE

ps:don’t confuse it with Java jaybird driver this one is the ODBC driver but in the cvs tree is called ODBCJDBC

FYI: For the German speaking guys here. The originally published German article on the new audit and trace API in the Entwickler Magazin Edition 2.2010 is now available as download.
Check out my blog:
http://blog.upscene.com/thomas/index.php?entry=entry110404-124701
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With regards,

Thomas Steinmaurer

The full goodbye in tears story is on this blog

The server worked admirably as a file server and as a database server (Firebird) until a few months ago when the first Windows 7 machines started to arrive. Win7 had difficulty reading the files on the NT4 server and even more difficulty in creating files. With regret, we installed another computer (originally Win7 but swiftly downgraded to XP) which served as a file host; the NT4 kept on working as the Firebird server.

You’ve heard the story about the servers which stopped working every night? When the support team came to find out what had happened, they found that the janitor had unplugged the electricity cable in order to plug in his vacuum cleaner.
This story may be apocryphal but something similar happened this morning. The noise of the computer annoyed one of the psychologists who was sitting in the same room, so she unplugged the server!  Instant death of the databases! We tried resuscitating the server but it kept on showing ‘MBR fault’ – obviously the master boot record of the server had been damaged. I imagine that someone, somewhere will know how to fix this, but we need those databases up and running now.

I’ve got the databases running on a temporary computer, but I will have to transfer them to the XP server. I tried this a few months ago, and whilst I was able to run the databases, I couldn’t connect to them from the Win7 machines. Now I have no option but to try again.

Farewell NT4 server: you served us well for 13 years and now is the time to say goodbye.