Firebird Relational Database 1.5 Final Out 445
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.
Woohoo! (Score:4, Funny)
Look up! is it a browser, is it a OS? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Firebird for web sites (Score:4, Funny)
Much better than Internet Explorer.
In other news (Score:4, Funny)
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".
Re:Woohoo! (Score:2, Funny)
Right (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Firebird(tm) and why I just don't care (Score:5, Funny)
Yip yip yip! Ow! I sprained by brain!
Re:In other news (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who fucking cares? (Score:3, Funny)
marketing... (Score:4, Funny)
Why not combine the fiestyness of a fox with the power of fire. I suggest something like Foxfire or Firefox!
Re:In other news (Score:1, Funny)
P.S. For any lawyers, etc. reading this, the above is an example of "parody", not subject to the definition of "slander" or "libel".
It is, however, a very poor example. You may still be able to sue for some sort of emotional trauma.
One Firebird... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SQL not relational (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, but if you relationate without any protection, you're going to somehow end up with look-alike duplicates...
Re:Assembling static data (Score:2, Funny)
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.
An extremly light weight SQL Engine? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Only got one thing to say about Firebird: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:One Firebird... (Score:4, Funny)
And I'm still waiting for... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bleh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Right (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This project (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why I know about Firebird (Score:2, Funny)
Which would explain the lack of actual content in your post.
Re:Look up! is it a browser, is it a OS? (Score:5, Funny)
--Dan