> > Firebird: The legend continues.
> > Firebird: Meet the Legend.
>
> I like these, especially when compared with Oracle
> who think about itself as legend. Looking at timeline here
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/03-may/o33drdba.html
> it seems that Firebird (under different names then :-) implemented
> many features before or at the same time as Oracle. E.g.
>
> "Oracle version 6, released in July 1988,...One of the most important of

its new features

> was row-level locking-a transaction performing writes locks only the

affected rows (not an entire table) ..."

>
> FB never needed locking whole tables.
>
> "Oracle version 6 also introduced hot backups, allowing a database to be

backed up while in use."

>
> FB had hot backups from the beginning.

Firebird: where others got their tricks

:-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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