Milliseconds are now stored in the timestamp KInterbasDB + Firebird
David Rushby (the autor of the KInterbasDB) has
solved the problem applying such a feature in the code. Thank you David.
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Jaybird V2.1.0 Beta 1 has been released and is available for download.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...“Free” Databases: Express vs. Open-Source RDBMSs
Open-source databases are gaining IT mindshare at a rapid pace. As an example, BusinessWeek‘s February 6, 2006 “Taking On the Database Giants” article asks “Can open-source upstarts compete with Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft?” and then provides the answer: “It’s an uphill battle, but customers are starting to look at the alternatives.”
Read more on the OakLeaf Systems blog
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Read more on the Liam Wilkie’s blog
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Spotted on dotnetfirebird blog
A nice white paper by Roman Rokytskyy that describes the multi version concurrency control system used in Firebird in comparison to IBM DB2 and Oracle 9i.
I found this quote on the Hibernate Tuning blog: [Ed:They linked to the Roman’s Page , Scroll down to “db2 and friends”]
In fact glaring are the benchmarks published by MySQL. I’d put to you that MVCC support is probably more important than a lot of other concerns in transactional computing (as opposed to batch processing and OLTAP type stuff)
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I’ve updated the downloads page to show the most recent versions:
- Firebird Server for Windows 1.5.3
- Firebird Embedded for Windows 1.5.3
- Firebird Server for Windows 2 RC1
- Firebird Embedded for Windows 2 RC1
- Firebird ADO.NET Provider 1.7.1 for .NET Framework 1.1
- FirebirdClient 2 RC3 for .NET Framework 2.0
Posted by Dan : @ dotnetfirebird.org
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[ED:worth reading it – a short intro to ingres history ]
Read more at Mark Logic CEO Blog
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Backup Firebird Databases
There are to different backup Systems in Firebird:
nBackup included in Firebird 2.0 an up
and gBak included in Firebird since humm, good old Borland days back in 199x up to the (still in beta) Firebird 2.0.
When you dont want to struggle with the commandline switches of gbak, you can use the (very useful) GUI-Frontend for gbak developed and provided for free by Talat Dogan: FIBS Firebird-Interbase Backup Scheduler
Read more on this blog
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Brazilians who want to participate in the 3rd Firebird Developers Day, to be held in Piracicaba – SP – Brazil in 29/July, can now make their subscriptions online in the conference site.
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