New Firebird case study from wobe-systems GmbH, German software development house for the graphics industry. "...A production database of 100 GB and more containing BLOBs is nothing unusual at our customers sites..." "...Firebird SQL server is at the core of our system helping our customers swift and safely through their daily work...
Yesterday the second issue of Firebird SQL Project newsletter was delivered to all subscribers. This issue includes announcements of official Firebird channels at YouTube and SlideShare, the full list of materials from Firebird Conference 2011, and also digest of recent community news. You can read the second issue online. We strongly encourage you to subscribe to Firebird SQL project newsletter in order to receive new issues in time.
Firebird Project is happy to bring you early Christmas gift packed as ADO.NET provider for Firebird version 2.7. This version brings important bug fixes and logging improvements. This release wouldn’t be possible without support of people/companies using provider actively. Big thanks to them. You can download it in the ".NET Provider" section of Downloads. Enjoy!
Special gifts for the new members of Firebird Foundation till December 31, 2011
Firebird Conference 2011 is over. It was very intensive, bright and interesting. I would like to thank conference organizers, Sita Software, and personally Vincenzo Sita and Jas Madhur, for the great event and their hospitality. Also many thanks goes to sponsors, IBSurgeon, vendor of recovery and optimization tools, and IBPhoenix, Firebird support company, for their help in organizing conference. More details, photos and impressions will be available in the next issue of Firebird Newsletter.
The first day of Firebird Conference 2011 is started. Real-time photos and tweets are available at FirebirdSQL Facebook page and through Twitter tag #fbcon11.
Yesterday the first issue of Firebird SQL Project newsletter was delivered to all subscribers. This issue includes the letter from the President of Firebird Foundation Philippe Makowski, short story about Firebird Developers Day in Brazil and digest of recent community news. You can read this issue online. We strongly encourage you to subscribe to Firebird SQL project newsletter in order to receive new issues in time.
Announcements of talks at Firebird Conference 2011 — talks from Dmitry Yemanov and Alex Peshkov: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2011-topics. There will be more announcements soon — stay tuned!
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.1 — a minor release of the award-winning relational database management system. This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and many important improvements — for example, performance improvements during a database restore, the ability to write to global temporary tables in read-only databases, etc.