Beside being free (both as beer and also open source), you don’t need 24×7 DBA and there are generally less headaches. Here’s a nice example explained by Norman Dumbar in a mailing-list post. Norman administers over 600 Oracle databases and about 40 Firebird ones:
Here are various articles about Firebird ExtJS and php . Articles are written in Russian Language
so you might need google translation
Pierre Yager announced on firebird-devel new version of UIB with Firebird 3.0 API support:
Thanks to Vlad, we achieved the translation of the FB3 OO API in UIB
Components for Delphi.
You can checkout the code from SourceForge repository :
https://uib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/uib/trunk
Now, we only miss hints to deal with FbMessage, it seems that the
examples (fbstuff on github) made by Adriano heavily relies on BOOST
and as we don’t have such possibilities with Delphi we must understand
what is exactly an FbMessage and see what we can do.
Thanks for your help, regards,
Here is my patch file so far for the firebird provider.[Ed:For gnome db]
It only run select statements. Your feedback and guidance will be appreciated.
There is still quite a bit missing, but at least I can now select data from a firebird database . Please note that it does not do the input,parameters for statements…..mainly cause I never use it
If there is some interest I’ll work some more on it
Here is the download page and the full changelog
Tutorial is about logging into the Firebird database using NLog 2.0
Article is in Russian Language but you can try to read the google translation
ps: Let’s hop you will not spend 5 hours and yogurt to fight with this again 😉
Articles are in Portuguese but you can use google translate
In this post, we will begin a series of articles regarding how to use Firebird DBMS (Database Management System Data) in an ASP.NET 4.0, C #, using Visual Studio 2010.
Jiri Cincura wrote a new blog post about Sorting using blob column on Firebird
Imagine you have a blob column and you want to add sorting clause to your query based on that column. Crazy? Might be. On the other hand, why not?
The idea of storing a hierarchical data in a relational database is very simple, but effective work with such a data requires some knowledge of server-side programming using procedural SQL (PSQL). So the hierarchical data structures are a good chance to get acquainted with PSQL. For demonstration purposes I created a simple database with single table TCLASS containing Delphi class hierarchy
The rest of the article is here
Pavel Cisar wrote on firebird python list :
Those who attended my “Python drivers” session at conference in
Luxembourg already know that last two months I have worked on another
Python driver for Firebird (codename fdb). It was just an experiment how
far I could go in short time with another approach to implementation,
not real attempt to replace both existing drivers (KInterbasDB and
firebirdsql). However, it went so well, that we have a real chance to
get out a truly universal pure Python driver for Firebird next year.
Here are details…
