The Firebird ADO .NET Data Provider 1.7.1 for .NET 1.1 and Mono 1.1 is available for for download.
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Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebird Developers Day – Call for sponsors
The third edition of the conference will happen on July 29th, 2006 at UNIMEP (in Brazil). The expected audience size this year is from 500 to 750 people. This is mostly a portuguese-speakers conference, and an unique chance to reach directly hundreds of potential customers. Paying your sponsorship until 31/March you get 20% discount! Contact fdd.at.firebase.com.br to get the conference mediakit with all the information, including sponsorship plans and prices.
The return of the VAX cluster
iSCSI is making network shared storage an increasingly popular choice in the midmarket. A $15K device can offer 2.5TB shared storage to 6 servers. Now that looks remarkably like the architecture of the VAX clusters of old. Perhaps it is time to resurrect the Firebird VAX clustering code.
Read more here
New acronyms FLAPS , FWAP, FWIP
FLAPS is FLAP with Ssl (that is why S is at the end of word)
FWAP is an acronym for the combination Microsoft Windows, Apache, Firebird and one or more of Perl, PHP and Python. It is modelled after the more well-known FLAP, referring to the all-open source/free software approach which uses Linux instead of Windows.
FWIP is the WIMP equivalent (alias) with firebird used instead of mysql
Firebirdnews in Alexa’s top 100.000 sites
traffic is high , you can watch the graphs on alexa
Other sites that is worth watching for their visits graphs are firebirdsql.org and ibphoenix.com
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.
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).
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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. |