FireBird

Firebird 2.0.3 included in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

ubuntulandblogspot — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:07:48 +0200

Firebird (sometimes erroneously called FirebirdSQL) is a relational database management system offering many ANSI SQL-2003 features.It runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Started as a fork of Borland's open source release of InterBase, the Firebird codebase is maintained by the Firebird Project at SourceForge.

Firebird 2.0.3 included in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Mai — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:23:20 +0100

Firebird SQL è un database management system relazionale (RDBMS) opensource distribuito sotto licenza IPL (Interbase Public License) o IDPL (simile alla Mozilla Public License) .Supporta numerosi sistemi operativi tra i quali: Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Linux e alcuni sistemi Unix.Le principali caratteristiche di questo RDBMS sono l'alto livello di conformità con gli standard SQL, la completa integrazione con molti linguaggi di programmazione e la facile installazione e manutenzione del software.Le ultime versioni rilasciate portano grandi miglioramenti riguardo alla resistenza del software ai crash esterni, la velocità d'esecuzione dei comandi SQL e la gestione e l'accesso ai dati del computer.

The new Alpha version of ubuntu named Hardy Heron includes firebird 2.0.3 stable.

Maxi — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:57:00 +0100

La nuova versione alpha di Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron include l'ultima release rilasciata dal team di Firebird, la versione 2.03.Features * Full support of Stored Procedures and Triggers * Full ACID compliant transactions * Referential Integrity * Multi Generational Architecture (sometimes called MVCC) * Very small footprint * Fully featured internal language for Stored Procedures and Triggers (PSQL) * Support for External Functions (UDFs) * Little or no need for specialized DBAs * Almost no configuration needed - just install and start using * Big community and lots of places where you can get free and good support * Optional single file embedded version - great to create CDROM catalogs, single user or evaluation versions of applications * Dozens of third party tools, including GUI administrative tools, replication tools, etc. * Careful writes - fast recovery, no need for transaction logs * Many ways to access your database: native/API, dbExpress drivers, ODBC, OLEDB, .Net provider, JDBC native type 4 driver, Python module, PHP, Perl, etc. * Native support for all major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS. * Incremental Backups * 64bits builds available * Full cursor implementation in PSQL

DBNews 2007 #4

Lobotomia — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:06:46 +0100

Prima uscita di febbraio per la nostra newsletter settimanale che vi aggiorna sul mondo dei DataBase.