Category: General news

An identity column is a column associated with an internal sequence generator and has it value automatically set when omitted in an INSERT statement.

Example:

create table objects (
id integer generated by default as identity primary key,
name varchar(15)
);

insert into objects (name) values (‘Table’);
insert into objects (name) values (‘Book’);
insert into objects (id, name) values (10, ‘Computer’);

select * from objects;

ID NAME
============ ===============
1 Table
2 Book
10 Computer

Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉

We wish all of you, users, developers, etc, a very nice Christmas, and an awesome New Year! In 2.010, Firebird will complete 10 years of existance, and we hope it will be a very special year!

Thanks to the progressive death of the NAS server from which all our Internet facilities are served, we lost everything – Tracker, website, Wiki, Windows snapshots and news mirrors – piece-by-piece over the past days.

By gargantuan effort, Sean Leyne and his colleagues at Broadview have been reconstructing our infrastructure from scratch. The main website http://www.firebirdsql.org is up but some pieces, such as Windows snapshots, are still missing.  Windows snapshots should be available some time today.

The other servers are more challenging, requiring radical reconstruction using new versions of underlying software, and will take time.

For now, if you find broken links (other than those to our other servers) then please feel free to inform us via a message to this list.

More info as it comes to light.

Helen

Softpedia seems to be one of the most visited IT related sites (at least the forums) in my country according to traffic.ro stats so i have updated the firebird related pages.
We need honest reviews there and some votes
Here is the page for the mac ,here is for Linux and there is for Windows.
ps:Later i will add some screenshots to the pages and update the instalation guides.

From Monty (MySQL original author) blog:

As I already blogged before, a fork is not enough to keep MySQL alive for all future, if Oracle, as the copyright holder of MySQL, would at any point decide that they should kill MySQL or make parts of MySQL closed source.

Firebird is trully *open* (in all aspects). Nobody owns Firebird, nobody can buy it, nobody can close its sources, nobody can charge for it! So, if you are using Firebird, you don’t need to have such worries.