Firebird’s Big Databases Presentation (in English)
At FDD’2010 Dmitry Kuzmenko has presented 2 presentations – the first one about approach to maintain big databases (50-400Gb) in the right way and the second is about restore speed tests.
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Loading...Reflections on Perl and DBI from an Early Contributor
The name Buzz Moschetti probably isn’t familiar to you. Buzz was the author of the Perl 4 database for Interbase known as Interperl.
Back in those days Perl 5 was barely a twinkle in Larry’s eye and database interfaces for Perl 4 required building a custom perl binary.
http://blog.timbunce.org/2010/07/08/reflections-on-perl-and-dbi-from-an-early-contributor/
ps: Interabase & Firebird contributed stable api not only in the c and Delphi/Lazarus world but also in the Perl one with one of the first best drivers
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)Loading...Win 1 year license of Dataguard
IBSurgeon is offering an one year license of FB Dataguard for free to anyone participating in the MindTheBird campaign. Check the details here.
Offer valid until 10/August/2010.
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Adriano posted about DDL execution artchitecture, its flaws and new improvements for FB 3.
Here I’m going to explain how Firebird DDL commands works in the architecture, why it stops innovation and how it is supposed to work in Firebird 3.0.
DDL in FB works more or less like DML, so first a briefly explanation of how DML works. When a DML command is prepared, it starts in the parser constructing a tree of nodes. That nodes are all a single pointer type, used for all node types and others usages (like storing constants). A node have a list of child nodes.
Real full post here.
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Posted By Adriano dos Santos Fernandes:
July 31th, 2010. Today Firebird completes its 10th anniversary. The Firebird website has a set of history documents about how that started. It’s something you must read if you’re interested in Firebird.
I’m sometimes asked about how I became one of its team members. So I’m going to tell something about this.
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(16 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 3 Kits Now Available
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that kits for field-testing the third release candidate for Firebird 2.5 are now available. The 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux, along with 32-bit kits for Windows and 64-bit for the MacOSX/Darwin Intel platform. The missing kits for 64-bit Windows and 32-bit MacOSX are still in QA and will follow shortly.
Please test well and report any bugs directly to the firebird-devel list (click HERE if you are not subscribed). Please do not post questions about this pre-release version to the firebird-support list.
(8 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...FDD donations to Firebird Foundation
The Brazilian Firebird Developers Day was able to collect R$ 4.500 as donations to Firebird Foundation. Money was already transfered. I wish to thanks all the donors! This is the biggest value ever collected at FDD.
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(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Ultimate EFv4 CTP4 Code First full mapping example using Firebird
Jiří {x2} Činčura created an example with Entity Framework 4 CTP4
Let’s model some kind of simple library and try to use there couple of Entity Framework’s features. And to make things worse, try to do it with ADO.NET provider for Firebird.Good news is I succeeded. My database structure was my first and non-touchable object (to be honest the first was the idea what to create and how to represent it in database) together with the idea of objects.
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