However, another myth surrounds that self-same conference which says that a totally different group of Microsoft employees (in no way connected to the honourable techies above) were indulging in stratagems and subterfuge. In the end, their actions left Borland founder Philippe Kahn with no alternative other than to deploy the Hawaiian shirt protocol…
Thomas Steinmaurer of Upscene Productions requested a plug for their one week sale on their LogManager series products. The tool is available in versions for four different DB servers, including InterBase. You can download a free trial version, and if you find it useful you can purchase it for 75% off this week only.
Borland has released a new ODBC driver for InterBase. This driver is available for free to anyone with a registered version of InterBase 7.x, and can be redistributed without charge to anyone with a licensed version of InterBase.
Interesting post from Slava Oks. The long and the short of it is that low-priority threads which touch a lot of memory can really hurt a high-priority thread on the other logical processor by trashing the shared cache.
Let’s say you want to share a connection to InterBase between IBX and dbExpress. For that you’ll need to retrieve the handle used by dbExpress and then use TIBDatabase.SetHandle to tell IBX to use that connection. But how to get the handle from dbExpress? Martijn Tonies pointed me in the right direction, and I wrote the following sample code…
Martijn Tonies asked me if I wouldn’t mind plugging Database Workbench, and I’m happy to do so. I’ve used the product for several years, and overall I find it to be a good match for my needs. Read on for examples of stuff it does well….
SQL on Rails is my favorite April fools joke this year. Don’t miss the screencast.
DavidI presented a roadmap for InterBase inTokyo, which covers versions 8, 8.5, and 9, and describes the currently planned features for InterBase up through late 2007. You can download his slides.
Upscene Productions are offering a 75% discount on their Database Workbench tool for one week only to celebrate its five year anniversary. DBW supports InterBase and several other popular databases.
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