firebird in shutdown mode
Shutdown mode prevents everyone other than SYSDBA and the owner from
connecting.
This allows you to safely run metadata scripts etc and be sure no-one
else is connected while this happens.
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Why using Firebird? – Blog of the day
This statement is base on my experience, so maybe it’s not true for you. Firebird version that I know for the first time is 1.0 version, since then I fall in love with Firebird (FB).
Read more on this blog
New Debian firebird2 packages fix denial of service
Aviram Jenik and Damyan Ivanov discovered a buffer overflow in firebird2, an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code, that allows remote attackers to crash.
Results from a Performance Test FB15 – FB2b2 – IB751
In the latest Edition of IBExpert, we added some new modules, on is
a database script with a simple sales database, that creates its test
data from a stored procedure.
now i had some time to test it against fb153, fb2b2 (and ib751)
What does it do: first it creates a almost empty database with just
some entries in helptables. after the database is created, you have to
start one procedure and wait for the time it takes.
EMS Data Comparer 2005 for InterBase/Firebird ver. 1.1 released
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EMS Software Development company is pleased to announce new version of Data Comparer 2005 – the powerful utility for data comparison and synchronization for Firebird and InterBase databases. |
2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards
The 2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.… time to vote for your favourite database.
MySQL joins Eclipse
Also, open source database provider MySQL on Monday announced it has joined Eclipse as an Add-in Provider member. MySQL plans to contribute to the Eclipse Data Tools Platform project and collaborate with Zend Technologies and others on the proposed Eclipse PHP IDE project.
Source for news infoworld
SQL Point/Blog of the Week
For those of you data hounds out there that use open source databases.
May I suggest the excellent Firebird, coupled with IBexpert, as opposed to mySQL.
I have found it a heck of a lot easier to design and implement stored procedures. It is open source and rock solid.
That is J. J. Walter’s opinion about firebird , expressed in his blog.
oracle licensing too expensive for oracle community site
from this thread on the orafaq forum:
“There is no way we would be able to raise the money required to buy a commercial Oracle license.”
Foundation site got a facelift
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Recently the main page of the Firebird Foundation site got a facelift. Check it out and if you are not a member of the Foundation, maybe it is a good time to subscribe and help the economic viability of the Firebird project. |