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Firebird related news
New Firebird site is almost ready
From Alexey Kovyazin:
Hello All,
Current data transfer from old site to the new site is almost complete. There are following areas in process:
- In Development – QA, Documentations for developers and .NET/Python drivers
- Old news – we will transfer old news for a while, now at 2009-2008 level.
- In About Firebird -> Features description, is in progress
- Grantee reports from old years
- Some minor content adjustments
Also we need to manage setup for daily snapshot uploads.
For regular site updates, like adding news or new FF members/sponsors, dedicated person from DQTeam will manage data adding/changing, until other site contributors will learn how to use CMS.
Actual transfer and redevelopment is almost over, now web-site redevelopment is about “intellectual” re-writing and new content creatiion.
Such process will be run constantly, and there will be always gap between ideal site and good-enough site.
I ask everyone to join the action now, look through the site thoroughly, and then provide actual help in order to jump over gap and switch to the new site in the next few days, and then go to the Phase 2 – improvements and extensions.
Old site will be live for a while, of course, so no content will be missed.Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
Firebird user:The Little PowerBuilder App that Grew
This article will describe the development of a fairly large (over 4,000 users) one-man software business, selling an application developed with PowerBuilder and Firebird
FBDataGuard 2.5 for Linux: binaries and User Guide were updated
New version of FBDataGuard 2.5 for Linux is available. Update introduces enhanced support for CentOS, Suse, Debian and Debian-derived Linux distributives.
At first run FBDataGuard automatically discovers installed Firebird and performs quick investigation of the system and, if something wrong found, it reports about the problem.
Changes are reflected in the new version of FBDataGuard User Guide (PDF is available).
Full (commercial) version of FBDataGuard includes Control Center – Windows GUI tool with advanced monitoring and recovery capabilities.
ANN: IBX for Lazarus and Firebird – Call for Testers
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ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 33
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 32 has released. Here are the fix:
4.1.2011.33 Release on 12 May 2011
- Add Support of INSERT INTO <Table> VALUES (..) RETURNING <arg1>, <arg2>, …
Download here.
Shared page cache ready to be commited in firebird 3.0
Vlad Khorsun wrote about the Shared page cache implementation in 3.0 :
After more than a year of development, testing, switching on another tasks and returning back i’m ready to commit shared page cache implementation into trunk.
I consider it stable enough to be committed into SVN. It runs some stability tests more than 10 hours for longest run and many shorter runs at different configurations.
Here i want to do overview of changes, what was tested, what was not, and what
is work in progress.
You can read more about Shared page cache in the Firebird 3.0 presentation
Update:Feature commited into trunk
Tips:How to Identify if your run 64 bits of Firebird engine
Question: I have a requirement to Identify whether a Firebird system is 64 bit or not,in order to know whether to deploy a 64 bit UDF or a 32 bit UDF. Is there any thing to give the correct information?
The best Answer: Identify this information this way:
fbsvcmgr service_mgr -user sysdba -password masterke -info_server_version -info_implementation
see the manual for more : http://firebirdsql.org/rlsnotesh/rlsnotes210.html#rnfb210-util-svcs
On ubuntu/debian 64 will give :
fbsvcmgr service_mgr -user sysdba -password masterke -info_implementation | grep 64
Server implementation: Firebird/linux AMD64
or you can count if the 64 string is present with -c in grep (notice that there is no need for username and password)
fbsvcmgr service_mgr -info_implementation | grep -c 64
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Firebird Web redevel : Next round of web-site testing – Documentation
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We are approaching the end of web-site development process.
Now we need attention of beta-testers for Documentation section Please look through Documentaion section, try to find your favorite documents/guides/articles and report found issues to the tracker Thanks in advance. Regards, |
Amazon’s EC2 Micro Instance and Firebird
Jiří Činčura Blogged about his impression on Amazon’s microinstance :
Few months ago I was playing with different VPS providers and I was also considering deploying the application to some “small instance” cloud. I came to Micro Instance of Amazon EC2. Part of the solution I was doing research for is Firebird database and because the pricing looks good, I tried to install Firebird (2.5 SuperClassic) on this instance.