Firebird News

Peter Gulutzan (ex Mysql at Oracle arhitect) decided to compare the current versions of MySQL 5.6 and Firebird SQL 2.5. he only looked at SQL standard features that end users can see, without benchmarking

http://ocelot.ca/blog/blog/2014/03/09/354/

Or another link is on coral cache for people who can’t access the above one
http://ocelot.ca.nyud.net/blog/blog/2014/03/09/354/

but some comments / content can be stalled

It’s a weird score because they (Sun/Oracle) didn’t delivered mysql 6 and compared to it Firebird 3 is a major arhitectural change and rewrite and it doesn’t deserve the penalty box
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.general/198/focus=274

FF is non-commercial organization which get money from sponsors and members and give it to FirebirdSQL core and driver developers. If you really want to support Firebird, become a member right now: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/membership/
Choose Associate ($50/year) membership for general support or Voting ($300) to be able to participate in FF meetings and, thus, in Firebird life.

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.

I found the sample app on the xdenser git repo node-fb-sample

I have made a few small changes to make it work with current node/express (already pushed to original repository) also i have added a few instructions to install dependencies

I have synced Firebird 2.5.2 package with version in Debian including icu 52.1
loading fix for all supported releases.

The icu loading issue is fixed in Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 Firebird 2.5 package
ps: Support for Raring was removed (no longer supported by Canonical)

The first encounter with unicode databases and collations on Firebird may be confusing, as it was for me and it may take some time to grasp the concepts and settings. This article describes the principles and catches and gives the examples how to set up a UTF-8 database in Firebird SQL server 2.5, how to setup ICU libraries and how to use national collations (eg. czech).

A few years ago Helen Borrie set up a firebird-delphi group and then somehow
managed not to list it on our support pages – so it has no members and
no traffic. Yahoo is going to delete it on March 6 unless I inform
them that we want to keep it.

Do we want to keep it?

Probably rdb$db_key is the best kept Firebird secret, because it gives the user some extra power to access records in raw mode.