building firebird 2.1 from debian git repository

apt-get install libicu-dev libedit-dev git-core

you need to check out the firebird 2.1 repository from debian git

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-firebird-general/2007q3/001125.html

git-clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-firebird/2.1
cd 2.1
debuild -i
and wait for it to build it for you

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lulu pr list

I will work to add them to my pr list and use them for spreading the F word

We recommend these free services – www.pr.com and www.prleap.com and two fee-based services: www.prweb.com and www.prnewswire.com.

Instalando o FirebirdSQL 2 « Hamacker’s Palace

Atualmente o FirebirdSQL encontra-se na versão 2.0 e com a versão 2.1 em fase beta, mas há um problema : para sistemas baseados no debian (ubuntu incluso), o Firebird encontra-se nos repositórios como versão 1.5.3, que possui menos recursos do que a versão 2.0.

[Installing Firebird 2.0 on ubuntu , an very long and a good guide for installing firebird/flamerobin]

Instalando o FirebirdSQL 2 « Hamacker’s Palace

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Firebird/InterBase - UDF and NULL parameters - DO not USE NULLs

Do not use NULLs

It is quite a frequent mistake to use NULLs for purposes it was not intended to. For example you have column MIDDLE_NAME in your table; if the person does not have middle name, you should fill in empty string (''); but sometimes people use NULL instead - it is wrong, because NULL means unknown value, not missing/not assigned/empty one. Using NULL as middle name means - "this person probably has a middle name, but we do not know what it is" - and not - "this person does not have any middle name".

Firebird/InterBase - UDF and NULL parameters

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Firebird Conference 2007 - New Features in Firebird 2.1

New Features in Firebird 2.1

Firebird Conference 2007 - New Features in Firebird 2.1

mnoGoSearch change history - new version released

Changes in 3.3.5 (17 October 2007)

mnoGoSearch change history

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Firebird Conference coverege [LWN.net]

Firebird Conference coveragePhotos and Blog entries from the 2007 Firebird DBMS conference have been posted. "The 2007 Firebird Conference convened from October 18-20 in Hamburg, Germany."

Linux in the news [LWN.net]

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Firebird Development release on [LWN.net]

Firebird 2.1 Beta 2 releasedVersion 2.1 Beta 2 of the Firebird DBMS has been announced. "This is the second Beta build of the Firebird version 2.1 series. It is for FIELD TESTING ONLY and should not be put into production systems."

Development [LWN.net]

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Firebird 2.1 Beta 2 is available in gentoo portage system

http://gentoo-portage.com/dev-db/firebird
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Installing DBI driver for Firebird RDBMS server

DBI driver for Firebird and RDBMS server
This was tested on debian stable with firebird 1.5.x version installed (from repository )
also with perl module DBI aready installed
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/E/ED/EDPRATOMO/DBD-InterBase-0.47.tar.gz
tar -zxvf DBD-InterBase-0.47.tar.gz
cd DBD-InterBase-0.47
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test (optional step)
make install

Here are the logs for perl Makefile.PL
perl Makefile.PL
InterBase/Firebird bin directory : [/opt/firebird/bin]
InterBase/Firebird include directory : [/opt/firebird/include]
InterBase/Firebird lib directory : [/opt/firebird/lib]

Full path to your test database:   /tmp/foo.fdb
/tmp/foo.fdb does not exist.
Trying to create the test database..
Please enter a username with CREATE DATABASE permission.
Username :  sysdba
Password :  masterkey
Enter full path to isql:  [/opt/firebird/bin/isql]
Use CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE to specify a database
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Using DBI 1.51 (for perl 5.008008 on i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi) installed in /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/auto/DBI/
Writing Makefile for DBD::InterBase
For make test
make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00base..............ok
t/10dsnlist...........ok
t/20createdrop........ok
t/30insertfetch.......ok
t/40alltypes..........ok
t/40bindparam.........ok
t/40blobs.............ok
t/40cursor............ok
t/40cursoron..........ok
t/40datetime..........ok
t/40doparam...........ok
t/40listfields........ok
t/40nulls.............ok
t/40numrows...........ok
t/41numeric...........ok
t/50chopblanks........ok
t/50commit............ok
t/60leaks.............skipped
        all skipped: Long running memory leak test
t/61settx.............ok
t/62timeout...........ok
        12/14 skipped: wait timeout is not available
t/70nestedoff.........ok
t/70nestedon..........ok
t/80event-ithreads....ok
t/81event-fork........ok 1/17# kid gets sighup
t/81event-fork........ok
t/90dbinfo............ok
        10/13 skipped: active_tran_count is not available
t/91txinfo............ok
t/ak-dbd..............ok
t/dbdadmin............ok
All tests successful, 1 test and 22 subtests skipped.
Files=28, Tests=683, 21 wallclock secs ( 3.02 cusr +  0.32 csys =  3.34 CPU)

And for make install
 make install
Installing /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/DBD/InterBase/InterBase.so
Installing /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/DBD/InterBase/InterBase.bs
Files found in blib/arch: installing files in blib/lib into architecture dependent library tree
Installing /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/DBD/InterBase.pm
Installing /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/DBD/InterBase/TypeInfo.pm
Installing /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/DBD/InterBase/GetInfo.pm
Installing /usr/local/man/man3/DBD::InterBase.3pm
Writing /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/DBD/InterBase/.packlist
Appending installation info to /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/perllocal.pod

Edwin Pratomo / DBD-InterBase-0.47 - search.cpan.org

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gambas 2 (development version) 1.9.90 [LWN.net]

Homepage: http://gambas.sourceforge.net
More Info: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=20018
Description: Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic (but it is NOT a clone!). With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and so on...
Changelog: see http://gambas.sourceforge.net/changelog2.html

gambas 2 (development version) 1.9.90 [LWN.net]

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IBPhoenix Open Source ODBC Driver

compiling and installing it on ubuntu
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@firebird.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/firebird login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@firebird.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/firebird co OdbcJdbc

cd OdbcJdbc/Builds/Gcc.lin
make -f makefile.linux

Next read the readme.linux

driver seems to be in OdbcJdbc/Builds/Gcc.lin/Release
sudo cp *.so /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/IscDbc.so /usr/lib/IscDbc

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libIscDbc.so /usr/lib/IscDbc

cat /etc/odbcinst.ini
[Firebird]
Description = InterBase/Firebird ODBC Driver
Driver = /usr/lib/libOdbcJdbc.so
Setup = /usr/lib/libOdbcJdbcS.so
Threading = 1
FileUsage = 1
CPTimeout =
CPReuse =

cat /etc/odbc.ini
[help]
Description = Firebird
Driver = Firebird
Dbname = localhost:/var/lib/firebird/2.0/system/help.fdb
User = SYSDBA
Password = masterkey
Role =
CharacterSet =
ReadOnly = No
NoWait = No


isql -v help
+---------------------------------------+
| Connected!                 |
+---------------------------------------+
SQL> select * from topics;
IBPhoenix Open Source ODBC Driver

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firebird compile times on ec2 extra large instance (fedora core 6)

Extra Large Instance 15 GB memory, 64-bit platform 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each) 1,690 GB instance storage (4 x 420 GB plus 10 GB root partition) Instance Type name: m1.xlarge (used in EC2 APIs)

wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firebird/Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1.tar.bz2

yum install automake libtool readline-devel libtermcap-devel make btyacc bison gawk gcc-c++ xinetd ncurses-devel
tar -jxf Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1.tar.bz2
./autogen.sh --prefix=/mnt/firebird2.1.x
time make
real    11m49.195s
user    10m11.510s
sys     1m19.200s
cd /mnt/firebird2.1.x/bin

./isql -u sysdba -p **********
connect "/opt/firebird2.1.x/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb"
SQL> SHOW version;
ISQL Version: LI-T2.1.0.15999 Firebird 2.1 Beta 1
Server version:
Firebird/linux AMD64 (access method), version "LI-T2.1.0.15999 Firebird 2.1 Beta 1"
on disk structure version 11.1

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Feature Guide: New Instance Types

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building times for firebird 2.1 on amazon ec2 (fedora core 6)

Large Instance 7.5 GB memory, 64-bit platform 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each) 850 GB instance storage (2 x 420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
Instance Type name: m1.large (used in EC2 APIs)

Here how can firebird can be build and the time

wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firebird/Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1.tar.bz2
yum install automake libtool readline-devel libtermcap-devel make btyacc bison gawk gcc-c++ xinetd ncurses-devel
 cd Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/firebird2.1.x
time make
real    12m9.498s
user    10m16.980s
sys     1m19.880s
make install


cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 33
model name      : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2004.542
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy
bogomips        : 4010.62
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 33
model name      : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2004.542
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy
bogomips        : 4010.62
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Feature Guide: New Instance Types

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Firebird Development: Firebird 3.0 is with 7-10% faster than firebird 2.1.x

The most important of what was done during last months is certainly start of FB3 project. This is B3_0_transition tree. We try to keep it stable at the same time making big code cleanup, including MT stability. This tree is going to become a base for FB3. For today the main result that after cleanup it's stable on linux, at the same time showing 7-10% better performance compared with fb2.1. I do not mention separately later problems, fixed in 3.0 transition.

Firebird Development: Database Engine

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Amazon.com: New EC2 Instances - quad core and so on

Large Instance 7.5 GB memory 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each) 850 GB instance storage (2 x 420 GB plus 10 GB root partition) 64-bit platform I/O Performance: High Price: $0.40 per instance hour

Soon i will test with bonie++ and databases load

Amazon.com: Instances - Amazon EC2: Help

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building firebird 2.1.x classic from source on ubuntu

cd /opt/build

wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firebird/Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1.tar.bz2

tar -jxvf Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1.tar.bz2

cd Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1

apt-get install automake libtool libreadline5-dev make btyacc bison gawk g++ xinetd

./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/firebird2.1.x

make

sudo make install

technorati tags:firebird classic, firebird, ubuntu, gutsy, feisty, linux, freebsd, *bsd, unix, ec2, amazon

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Firebird clustering - the bad news

The bad news is that it involves coding in firebird core (at least in the lock manager code)

I'm afraid it won't work. The Classic processes should be able to
synchronize the logical I/O operations (page reads/writes) in order to
perform properly. It's done by the integrated lock manager, but it
cannot work between cluster nodes. As soon as the lock manager is
enhanced (or better say fixed) to delegate the calls to the external
distributed lock manager (e.g. RedHat DLM), this would become a workable
solution.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/88130

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Firebird SQL Clustering questions

Here comes the fire cluster question
I want to build an Load Balanced Active/Passive Firebird SQL Cluster
(two Active/Passive clusters which have access to the same data). So
the set up will be as follows:
1. Two Redhat GFS Clusters
2. One shared storage of 1TB
3. Layer7 Switch

So my idea is to implement GFS on the shared storage (/shared/db) and
then create two quorums one for one cluster, and the other for the
second cluster. After that I would register the following into a
cluster service:
- Shared IP address
- Shared Storage
- Firebird init.d script

So have anyone managed to create such scenario or is this kind of
scenario supported on Firebird 2.0.1 Classic.


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quote of the day - mysql , HTTP engine

I was explaining the HTTP engine to a group at the bar there. And this one guy is watching, and he talks to me a little bit, and he goes off. We’re sitting around for the bar for like another hour, and he comes back and says, "Look at this." He had been to Google Spreadsheets, and what he had done was written a RESTful URL and placed it into the HTTP engine and then started collecting data off of a Google spreadsheet and displaying inside the database. So every time he did a SELECT on the database, it was actually pulling data from this Google spreadsheet that he had connected to

Interview with Brian Aker - LinuxWorld

technorati tags:firebird, mysql, http, engine, restful, google, spreadsheet, select *

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