Jim Starkey: Introducing Falcon (the video and the podcast)
This is a great presentation, Jim throws in a lot of database history and insight into working with MySQL
Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
Interview with Paul Ruinzendaal (Fyracle)
Available here (you need to login to read the full interview).
who is working with firebird – real world blogs
Work undertaken:
Today I created a small VS 2005 demo project in order to understand how to silently deploy and update an embedded Firebird database using ClickOnce technology. This helped me to gain a basic understanding of the key concepts. Tomorrow I intend to continue this work by considering some more advanced scenarios.
Read more on Quill Work Audit Trail
MDB2_Schema is learning new tricks
Igor is doing great work on moving forward the XML based database schema format originally developed by Manuel Lemos as part of Metabase that is used in MDB2_Schema. [ED…skiped some content]The idea behind this schema format is to make it possible to define a single database schema that can be used to create, alter and initialize databases in any number of RDBMS. For example currently MDB2_Schema supports MySQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Interbase/Firebird.
Read more on Lukas Smith’s blog [via planet mysql]
Firebird Questions .NET
I’ve just released a new experimental site: http://www.firebirdquestions.net/.
It is a searchable and browsable archive of firebird-net-provider mailing list.
Noteworthy features:
- Updated automatically every 60 seconds
- Search is powered by Lucene.Net and Seekafile Server.
- You can browse the history by threads.
- You can skip to next/previous thread by hitting ‘j’/’k’ keys.
- All e-mails protected.
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Firebird page on swik.net
SWiK is a community driven resource for open source software. Try starting a page about your favorite project, syndicating a blog for a topic, or browsing through tags people have added to projects or pages.
firebird on ecrypted file sytems (linux and windows)
On ubuntu linux i use encfs to create an virtual partition where i put my databases (and email, im logs) , Here is an howto create such an partition . On windows (i didn’t tested yet) but i heard about truecrypt (is an open source product). Here is an quote from their faq
Q: Is it possible to install an application to a TrueCrypt volume and run it from there?
A: Yes.
blog of the day about firebird rc3
We actually have been deploying only super-servers, on beefy boxes with 2x dual core with 2x HT each (8x processing unit in total), because of our lack of experience in classic servers. Well, those server boxes do run other applications so you don’t get CPUs sitting there doing nothing, but I still wonder which one will be more suitable — one single super-server with shared page cache pool that can only utilise one CPU core, or multiple classic server instances that have their own page cache. However we do have up to 160 concurrent connections to the database on some of our boxes. Not sure how Win2k3 will perform with this kind of process count. Damn! Wish we can deploy them onto Linux boxes.
Read more on the FuCoder’s Blog
No Lobbysts As Such – The Fight Against Sofware Patents in Europe
Florian Müller’s memoir-style book has been released under the Creative Commons license this month.
On 377 pages, Mueller tells the story of the legislative process that ended in July last year with a landslide vote of the European Parliament against a proposal for a software patent directive.
The book is now available on the Internet for download:
http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/NoLobbyistsAsSuch.pdf
[ED: spotted on the planet mysql , is interesting that now Redhat fights against an patent pirrate FireStar for basically “accessing an database” ]
Firebird Enterprise
Paul Beatch wrote on Firebird-General mailing list:
A Firebird user commissioned IBPhoenix to put together an accurate
report showing how capable Firebird was in the Enterprise and we interviwed some
very large users 🙂 I have asked to see if I can make that report publically available. [So here it is ]
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