Firebird related news
From www.firebirdsql.org:
It has been found that V.2.5 Classic for Linux has problems with AST delivery if used with glibc 2.5. With glibc 2.7 it works properly. The situation with glibc 2.6 is unknown for now. If your glibc version is lower than v.2.7, it must be upgraded before using Firebird 2.5 Classic/Superclassic.
here is the mention.
Istallation proved very easy, and intelligently chosen defaults allowed us simply to press ‘Next’ through most of the wizard. A Firebird database is provided
FireAlarm is a server performance and health monitoring tool for the Firebird RDBMS. It is written in the Java programming language and released as open source.
This is a quick guide to the FireAlarm API, which shows how easy it is to register FireAlarm Database Aliases and to add and configure Alarm instances.
Today is the day when you can share your love towards Firebird and the Free Software world (libreoffice , qt , debian)
There are lots of ways to declare one’s love… Here are some ideas on how you can go public and proclaim your love to Free Software/Firebird
ps whey you search for i love firebird i have this example of trim function 🙂
select trim (‘la’ from ‘lalala I love Firebird’) from rdb$database
— returns ‘ I love Firebird’
In a recent survey for the next Firebird Developers Day in Brazil, one of the questions was about the average size of the participants (and/or their customers) databases. A total of 344 people answered, and the result can be seen below:
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20.3% | 70/344 | up to 500MB |
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31.1% | 107/344 | up to 2GB |
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20.9% | 72/344 | up to 5GB |
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17.2% | 59/344 | up to 10GB |
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10.5% | 36/344 | more than 10GB |
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| 100.0% | 344/344 | Summary | |
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PS: Note that this survey was directed only to people who intends to participate in the next Brazilian FDD edition.
Omega Sync can compare and synchronize both database schema and table data.
You can even synchronize data of heterogeneous databases (for example, compare your local Firebird database with a MySQL replica on your web site – and synchronize all the differences in just a few minutes).
http://www.spectralcore.com/omegasync/
Philippe Makowski managed to rebuild the flamerobin 0.9.2 package for fedora 15 also for the 16 version too .
There were some issues with new strict compiler rules in fedora similar with what happened when we tried to compile
flamerobin with clang
He was afraid that it will be his last tweet but he survived presenting to the postgres people
Adriano created a git mirror for all firebird branches . You can check the progress for each branch and the trunk in the network graph
There is another video on the Trace API and FB TraceManager available. This video discusses how to capture unauthorized access to data in Firebird 2.5.
It’s available HERE.
