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Current Newswire: Will secret copyright treaty restrict your digital rights? Saving the "Best" for Last - Fedora 12 (Constantine) LinuxCertified Announces its next Linux System and Network Administration BootCamp The Problem With The Linux Community Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim Open Source Science: A Revolution From Within openSUSE 11.2-- Incremental Updates, Plenty of Polish Microsoft, other rivals slam Google Chrome OS Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12 Editor's Note: Do It Yourself "Cloud" Virtualization Architect The Computer Merchant, Ltd US-MA-Chelsea Post A Job | Post A Resume PR: Firebird 2.0 Beta Released Nov 19, 2005, 21 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (7313 reads) [ Thanks to mariuz for this link. ] The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 2.0 Beta 1 kits for immediate download and testing. This version of Firebird 2 is an beta version, meant for field testing only and not for use in production. Bugs, problems, etc. can be posted to the Field Test bug tracker or to the Firebird Development List. Firebird 2 release contains a large number of new features: incremental hot backup derived tables (subqueries in FROM clause) storing databases on raw devices new EXECUTE BLOCK allows the client to call an "unnamed stored procedure" which is sent as a command IIF(condition, value1, value2) added as a shortcut to CASE WHEN condition THEN value1 ELSE value2 END CROSS JOIN is supported ("a CROSS JOIN b" equals "a INNER JOIN b ON 1 = 1") ROWS introduced to replace FIRST/SKIP SEQUENCE introduced as a shortcut to GENERATOR "NEXT VALUE FOR sequence" introduced as a shortcut to "GEN_ID(sequence, 1)" Default values for stored procedure arguments Index length limit (252 bytes) is removed Expression indexes introduced Optimizer improvements New string functions: LOWER() and TRIM() Security improvements (better password encryption, active protection agains brute-force attacks, users can change their own passwords...) Beta 1 includes fixes for several problems that showed up in the testing of Alpha kits. Please read the Release Notes for more details. Feedback, input and comments related with this release will be appreciated. Related Stories: OSNews: Preview of the Firebird Conference 2005(Oct 05, 2005) Firebird 2.0 Alpha 2 Released(May 29, 2005) TechCentral: Looking for a Robust Database System?(Apr 27, 2005) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   This is a Righteous RDBMS    Simplicissimus Nov 20, 2005, 00:02:42     Re: This is a Righteous RDBMS    Baalbek Nov 20, 2005, 01:12:55     What's in a name?    Wendell Cochan Nov 20, 2005, 15:13:41     Re: What's in a name?    rabid hamster Nov 21, 2005, 23:32:46     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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