Firebird related news
After many fights ubuntu dapper package is ready into stable ppa
It’s less and less fun to built it for dapper , i don’t know if anyone is using it , maybe on the next release i will not upload to it anymore , or maybe i keep it who knows, I need some feedback or to get the download count from launchpad
Here is the ChangeLog for Firebird 2.1.3 package in Gentoo :
Bump to 2.1.2, mostly fixes #264955. Thanks to Vladimir, John W. Higgins and all the testers in the bug.
MySQL users are nervous about Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems, according to InfoWorld. You can see their point: Why would a company whose main product is a proprietary database be interested in maintaining an open source competitor to it?
There are other open source databases available. PostgreSQL, Firebird, HSQLDB, even Apache Derby can all be called into service, depending on your needs. The developer communities behind any of these projects would be more than happy to help scores of ex-MySQL users migrate to their particular platform. They almost certainly already have tools to do it
Tsutomu Hayashi released DbBench 0.6.0.
List of changes :
* Move development environment to Delphi2010.
* Add “ENGINE INNODB” to MySQL CREATE TABLE script.
* Firebird now use dbExpress driver for firebird by Embarcadero.
* Add “WaitOnLocks = True” for each drivers parameter.
* Change processed transaction count method, now include rollbacked transaction.
We are glad to announce that we have just started set of our social outlets:
Twitter:
Blogger:
and Facebook.
We plan to release to public our internal “library of drafts”: short articles, corruption stories, tips and tricks, etc, which are too small to be published as article or whitepaper in our knowledgeable, but seems to be valuable enough for community, so we’ll release them as tweets, blog posts, etc.
Also we plan to share a lot of presentations we (as well as our colleagues, with their kind permission) have presented of different events, conferences, seminars and webinars, on the great resource SlideShare (it also allows following and social networking):
So please join us in any social network you prefer and we will do our best to do not disappoint you!
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 19 has released. Visit here for more details.
Changes:
Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
I‘m proud to announce next version of FirebirdClient – 2.5.1. This release is focused mainly on bug fixes, no new features were added.
You can see all fixed issues from tracker. And download it from http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
Thanks to all people who reported any issues for trying to make FirebirdClient better.
Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 18 has released. Visit here for more details.
Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
