Firebird News

#Lazarus (Free #pascal IDE) 0.9.28 has been released

October 14, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

vsnijders just announced version 0.9.28 of Lazarus on freshmeat.net.

The major changes are as follows:

In this major release, the IDE has many source editor improvements like display
of “double width” fonts (such as Eastern, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic), better
code folding, highlighting, syncro editing, and persistent blocks. The debugger
has assembler windows, easier exception handling, and breakpoint properties. The
LCL now uses GTK2 as the default widgetset on Linux and BSD and includes the
TMonitor class for multi-monitor support. Refactoring of LCL reduced the minimum
size of executables by about 15%. The support of TFrame support has improved, so
you can visually nest designers in the IDE.

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Differences between Firebird and InterBase, part 1: 32bit and 64bit

October 13, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

People from IBSurgeon started a serie of posts pointing actual differences between Firebird and InterBase. Many people still thinks that Firebird is kind of “free InterBase”, but the two projects are now quite different.

Read the first part about 32 and 64 bits support.

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ERP Alternative uses Firebird

October 12, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

DBA Software Inc., a leading provider of manufacturing (MRP) solutions for small business, announced that its decision two years ago to base its flagship product, DBA Manufacturing Next-Generation, on the Firebird™ open-source SQL database has been an unqualified success.

“MySQL gets all the publicity when it comes to open-source databases,” said Michael Hart, President of DBA Software, “but based on our experience, Firebird deserves a share of the limelight. MySQL is great for the Internet, but Firebird is perfectly suited for software applications such as our manufacturing package. It has a small footprint, is easy to install, requires no administration, and is fast, stable, and secure.”

Developers are preparing 2.5 Release Candidate 1

October 12, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Here is the message on Firebird-devel list about the branch freezing

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TPC-R results on Intel quad core

October 12, 2009 mariuz 4 comments

Tsutomu Hayashi did some benchmarks and here are the results with the time in seconds
Intel Core2Quad 9550 with 4G Memory Firebird Protocol: LocalConnection
All Firebird is defalt settings FB-2.1.2 is very slow, FB-2.5 is fastest.

DBcreation (Seconds – Lower is Better)
FirebirdSS-1.5.5 3007
FirebirdSS-2.1.2 1651
FirebirdSS-2.5Beta2 1289

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TPC-R (Seconds – Lower is Better)
FirebirdSS-1.5.5 621
FirebirdSS-2.1.2 2748
FirebirdSS-2.5Beta2 526

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ESF Database Migration Toolkit – 6.1.25

October 10, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

This toolkit dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating to/from any of the following database/file systems: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Visual Foxpro, SQLite, FireBird, InterBase, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Paradox, Lotus, dBase, CSV/Text and transfer any ODBC DSN data source to them. Features »

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#Debian gives #FreeBSD some love becomes official part of the distro – Firebird port included

October 8, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird does have official ports for debian kFreeBSD and maybe it’s easier to use FreeBSD kernel from an Debian/Ubuntu background (apt-get)

News via tuxradar

Upcoming release of Debian, codenamed Squeeze, will be available in a juicy new FreeBSD flavour alongside the regular Linux version. Well, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has been around for a while, but now it will be an official part of the distro, combining the titanium-strength FreeBSD kernel with the GNU C library

What is left to be done on the porting front ? maybe fixing the building on avr, hurd and m68k (sh4 is already done) but these are not yet official debian ports.

Also alpha cpu support seems to be dropped from debian release archiectures so no porting effort is needed

I took one list from 2007 and you can compare where we are now

Already ported:
i386
amd64
mipsel
sparc
powerpc
kfreebsd-i386
kfreebsd-amd64
arm
ia64
mips
s390 = IBM/S390
superH (sh4)

Need to be ported:
~~alpha~~ is dead
m68k
hurd
avr
hppa

ps:
So you can install firebird on the phone (maemo is arm debian linux) or on the mainframe linux (ibm s390)

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Firebird Ported to Renesas SuperH Cpu #Linux

October 7, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

We have another Firebird Port to the Renesas SuperH cpu (linux) by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu

Here is the patch that was added by Alex

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#Qt 4.5.3 Released with Firebird #Database fixes

October 7, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Qt 4.5.3 is now available. 4.5.3 is a patch level release providing various bug-fixes over the 4.5.2 release that we issued in late-June.

You can see the full changelog here
with the related Firebird fix (Database Drivers section)

– Fixed ::record for dialect 3 named tables in interbase/firebird.

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Now your programs for Firebird and Interbase are able to process any data volumes

October 7, 2009 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

We are glad to announce the release of new IBProvider Professional v3 codename “Shaitan” . The volume of processed data is now restricted only by the free space on your hard disk containing provider’s swap file. In the earlier versions of IBProvider, when the system cache had worked out available physical memory, the performance was dropping substantially.

IBProvider Professional codename “Shaitan” is able not only to process tens of gigabytes of data, but does it substantially faster than its predecessors do.

This is possible due to the usage of more efficient buffering and cashing algorithms and multithread data handling.

Furthermore, support of GB18030 charset was added.

Download new version right now: Firebird provider download.

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