[ED:blog of the day is Ben Ward’s post about firebird vs sqlserver download sizes/requirements]
Originally, my Desktop Search application (‘Oak’) was to use a Microsoft SQL Server Express database backend. Full of glorious developer friendly features (like .NET integration) it is a powerhouse of a database.
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Loading...DevCo (temporary name for the new company that will assume Borland IDE and InterBase) opened some emails to accept suggestions and questions from the community (a good step forward).
I sent to them 10 suggestions. The email is reproduced in my personal blog, in this post. I hope someone there accept at last some of the suggestions.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Oracle has last year's report as well, with even more detail. It shows Borland as a quickly growing database company, riding the FB/IB success wave. It's database sales are closely tracking MySQL, with 2004 sales already at the $9 million mark.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Pavel Cisar has discovered a new venue for the 2006 conference in Prague–a new 4-star hotel, Andels, which is located very close to downtown, just across the river, room tariff from 99 EUR/night. We have a firm booking. We will be calling for papers very soon so please watch for that.
Anyone wanting to be on the Firebird-conference mailing list, who’s not on it already, please contact the Secretary (helebor -AT- iinet dot net dot au) using the email address you want to use for the list subscription.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...“Not just a database connection wizard, but one that lets you browse tables and drag-and-drop everything from table columns to triggers and stored procedures onto your PHP forms, for MySQL, PostgreSQL, UltraSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird, SQLite, or Interbase.“
More info here.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...goCRM had its initial release today, and it could be interesting to some as we’re giving away free, yes free, software, that could be useful to someone running a small business.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Open source databases are showing the highest growth rate in the database market, according to a new study by analyst firm Gartner.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...From Dmitry Yemanov:
Implementation of the SQL-2003 compliant global temporary tables has been committed into the HEAD branch. This feature will be released in the next (post-v2.0) Firebird version. Design and implementation of the local temporary tables (both “defined” and “declared”, see the SQL specification for details) are being investigated, but there are no timeframes defined for that.
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EMS Software Development is pleased to announce new version of Data Pump 2006 for InterBase/Firebird – the powerful tool to convert databases and import table data from an ADO-compatible sources to Firebird and InterBase databases! You can download the newest version of EMS Data Pump 2006 for InterBase/Firebird from the download page. |
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...[Quoting from this article where firebird is mentioned http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1781895,00.html]
For instance, our product, Vault, stores all data using Microsoft SQL Server. Some people don’t like this. We’ve been asked to port the back end to Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Firebird. This issue is in our bug database as item 6740. The four questions would look like this:
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