La nuova versione alpha di Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron include l'ultima release rilasciata dal team di Firebird, la versione 2.03.Features * Full support of Stored Procedures and Triggers * Full ACID compliant transactions * Referential Integrity * Multi Generational Architecture (sometimes called MVCC) * Very small footprint * Fully featured internal language for Stored Procedures and Triggers (PSQL) * Support for External Functions (UDFs) * Little or no need for specialized DBAs * Almost no configuration needed - just install and start using * Big community and lots of places where you can get free and good support * Optional single file embedded version - great to create CDROM catalogs, single user or evaluation versions of applications * Dozens of third party tools, including GUI administrative tools, replication tools, etc. * Careful writes - fast recovery, no need for transaction logs * Many ways to access your database: native/API, dbExpress drivers, ODBC, OLEDB, .Net provider, JDBC native type 4 driver, Python module, PHP, Perl, etc. * Native support for all major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS. * Incremental Backups * 64bits builds available * Full cursor implementation in PSQL 

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