Firebird Relational Database 1.5.1 Final Stable

[Gordon Darling]

Firebird Relational Database 1.5.1 Final Stable

A relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features.

About:
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that
runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers
excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for
stored procedures and triggers.

Changes:
This release adds a charset improvement, allowing use of NONE as a fully
transparent charset everywhere. It adds the config-driven ability to abort
a server process in the case of bugchecks or structured exceptions (to
produce a core dump). It fixes a QLI crash which occurred when variables
were used, memory corruptions in the embedded DSQL API implementation,
server crashes which occurred when views and selectable procedures were
intermixed, a memory leak in isc_database_info(), and a problem with a
system log overflow related to a missing aliases.conf.

Release focus: Major bugfixes
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/firebird/

Homepage: http://firebird.sourceforge.net
Tar/GZ:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/firebird/22692/url_tgz/FirebirdSS-1.5.1.4481-0.i686.tar.gz
RPM package:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/firebird/22692/url_rpm/FirebirdSS-1.5.1.4481-0.i686.rpm

Regards
Gordon

 

[John H.]

Firebird Relational Database 1.5.1 Final Stable

A relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features.

Please be advised that Firebird database documentation is designed ONLY
for people who already know how to use Firebird already. This is not a
freeware database product for new users:

1: Installation instructions are on page 47 of the release notes, which
you don't have access to until after the installation.

2: Installation instructions, the "novices guide" on the site, the
quickstart guide and the readme, do not cover how to actually build a
new database and administer it.

3: Questions regarding database costruction and administration are
answered by referring to a Yahoo group, to which you must subscribe.

I rejected it before for the "Best Of" site, and see no reason to change
that assesment.

John H.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
Website: John's Best of FreeWare: WWW:Jhoodsoft.org