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Firebird Relational Database 1.5 Final Out
firebirdy writes "The Firebird Project is pleased to announce that the v1.5 release of the Firebird database engine is now available for immediate download. The v1.5 release represents a major upgrade to the engine, which has been developed by an independent team of voluntary developers from the InterBase(tm) source code that was released by Borland under the InterBase Public License v.1.0 on 25 July 2000. Development on the Firebird 2 codebase began early in Firebird 1 development, with the porting of the Firebird 1 C code to C++ and the first major code-cleaning. Firebird 1.5 is the first release of the Firebird 2 codebase. Install packages are currently only available for Windows and Linux but other platforms should follow shortly." This product is not to be confused with newly renamed Firefox web browser, which was also called Firebird for some time.
I'm so glad this version of FireBird renders CSS properly... no wait...
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
no it's a database!
Firebird works really good for Web sites.
Much better than Internet Explorer.
Due to trademark infringement potential and other potential confusion, Firebird Database Engine has just changed its name to
F------d Database Engine
More news to follow.
P.S. For any lawyers, etc. reading this, the above is an example of "parody", not subject to the definition of "slander" or "libel".
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So, I typed in slashdot.org but somehow I ended up on freshmeat.net. wtf?
Firebird is SQL, not relational.
Yip yip yip! Ow! I sprained by brain!
Wow, two troll posts. You buy a sco license too?
You know what, a good product often has to revamp its image in order to accelerate takeup. I suggest they change their name to something fiesty, energetic and powerful-sounding.
Why not combine the fiestyness of a fox with the power of fire. I suggest something like Foxfire or Firefox!
"Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time" -- A. E. Neumann
to serve up pages, one to view them... and one Firebird to rule them all?
>SQL is not relational. Its tables are not relations, because relations are sets, and sets don't contain duplicates.
Yeah, but if you relationate without any protection, you're going to somehow end up with look-alike duplicates...
The features you mention are now available in 4.1 - they were never a priority since they are easily handled in code.
Granted, subselects save on network traffic (although it seems to me it can also be done a little more clunkily with TEMPORARY tables).
Don't see where you see this distinction between real-time and static data in MySQL, but until you're more specific about the host of Oracle features, I still won't know.
I, on the other hand, am still annoyed that Oracle doesn't allow taking a slice of a result set and still can't do outer/left/right joins in a standard fashion.
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
Well, firebird is definitely a good contender, but I still want a database server that's fast and small... and the faster and smaller the better. Problem is I need most of the features you'll see in a high end one, and I need it to be open source.. SQLite was actually a contender at one point, but I want replication as well.. so.. my question is when is someone gonna fill this niche?
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Mysql easy?? I couldn't even begin to get it to install so I had to revert old school and use a sheets of paper and a filing cabinet for my database.
the "Bitchin' Camaro Database"... :)
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
I think the writers of the Firebird BBS would have something to say about who chose a name already taken by another project.
You only need a single DBMS and it will be included in the next point release of emacs.
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It is so wrong that I (as are most rational readers, I'm sure) am absolutely speechless...
Which would explain the lack of actual content in your post.