Dear readers!

We’ve put all our printed projects together - you can find them here: http://lulu.com/ibdeveloper

We’d like to thank all buyers of magazine’s printed version and Firebird 2006 Calendar - your help is highly appreciated. You help us to create high quality magazine, attract the best authors, designers, editors and painters.

And - now we offer “Firebird […]

Dear Friends!

We’ve published calendar for Firebird fans. Take a look - it may be a nice gift for your friends and families you are looking for!

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Results of TPC-R based test attracted a lot of attention and raise many questions. The most important question is why queries 3 and 20 were so slow?

Dmitri Kouzmenko, our optimization expert, explains this optimizer fault and shows the workaround to fix this problem. Also he sheds light to some interesting facts. See his comments here:

http://ibdeveloper.com/tests/tpc-r/some-comments-on-query-n-3/

With this comics we have started special Christmas program - fun gifts for every Firebird (and InterBase) fan! Keep on watching our site for everyday gifts!

First test results for Firebird 1.5.2 and InterBase 7.5.1 are published.

Dear Readers!

Due to annoying mistake we’ve published unedited version of “Full text search and DBMS” article in issue 3. We’ve fixed it once it was discovered. Please download updated version again.

Sincerely yours,

Alexey Kovyazin

editor@ibdeveloper.com

Third issue of “The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine” Dear Colleagues,

I am glad to announce the third issue of “The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine”. Electronic version is available for free download here:

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Printed version is also available:

http://www.lulu.com/content/196160

We have done a lot of work with […]