Collation charts
The goal of this project is to provide information about how various pieces of software (e.g. operating systems, DBMS and others) sort textual data, in the form of easy-to-read charts.
Check Firebird collation charts.
Category: General news
Firebird related news
flamerobin 0.8.5 snapshot ready in the debian repository
you can test it in debian unstable (amd64 and i386) from debian sid repository
http://packages.debian.org/sid/flamerobin
Other binary snapshots for flamerobin 0.8.5 are here
(you can tests on other operating systems: Linux, MacosX, windows,wine)
2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
you can see the final vote results , this year there was some good pr campaign from postgres 🙂 and we didn’t voted so much like in previous years
but we took an honorable 3rd place
It’s weird that sqlite is not on the first row it’s used in firefox/google gears … and disabled in php.ini by default
Choice between MySQL and Firebird? – post of the day
Which one of the two would you choose and why?
New Silver Sponsor from South Africa
From Firebird Foundation blog:
QuickEasy Software, from Cape Town, today became a Silver sponsor, with CEO Heinrich van der Vyver stating “…recently converted our software from IB6 to run on Firebird 2.0.3 and I’m very pleased with the result, also with the backend utility Flamerobin.”
Firebird downloads over 5 Millions at sf.net download statistics
The download counter on sf.net for all downloads is over 5 Millions , and the stats shows that traffic is growing
[ps:we should talk with the xampp guys to include php extension for firbird and the server]
FB CVS activity
You can use the following URL to check the recent Firebird project’s CVS repository activity (updated every few hours).
AnySQL Maestro released
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of AnySQL Maestro – a freeware, but powerful tool for all the database engines accessible via ODBC driver or OLE DB provider (Access, SQL Server, Firebird, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc). Key features include database object management, graphical database designer, visual query builder, data export and import, BLOB Viewer/Editor, and a lot of other things.
AnySQL Maestro has been successfully tested with Firebird ODBC drivers 1.xx and 2.0 beta and all the latest Firebird server versions up to 2.1. |
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Einstein teaching Firebird
Einstein, a group of universities in Brazil, is now offering extension courses based on Firebird:
- Firebird database management
- Advanced SQL – Triggers, Stored Procedures and UDF
More information here (in portuguese).
[ED]I know that a lot of universities here in Brazil uses Firebird as the default database for their computing courses, but it is the first time I see one of them offering extension courses based only in Firebird.