Jiří Činčura Blogged: Tokenize string in SQL (Firebird syntax)

Few days ago I wrote “Some thoughts on denormalization” post. Though concatenating data to one string is easy with there introduced function, splitting it back could be harder. I left it as exercise, but I feel, to make it complete, it’s good to show one possible implementation.

Here’s one I came with today (using Firebird syntax, however it’s almost pure SQL), quickly. It’s something I created from start to finish in one row and sure for some cases it could be optimized.

 

Amazon’s EC2 Micro Instance and Firebird

Jiří Činčura Blogged about his impression on Amazon’s microinstance :

Few months ago I was playing with different VPS providers and I was also considering deploying the application to some “small instance” cloud. I came to Micro Instance of Amazon EC2. Part of the solution I was doing research for is Firebird database and because the pricing looks good, I tried to install Firebird (2.5 SuperClassic) on this instance.

TURBU – The Ultimate Rpg BUilder is switching to Firebird as storage mechanism

From the about box :

TURBU is an RPG-building engine currently under development. It is being written by Mason Wheeler, and will be able to create and edit RPGs with a wide variety of customizable options, including importing existing project from RPG Maker 2000 and 2003.

And here is the blog post and the message With several advantages listed

I’ve added a bunch of new Event Builder editors, plus music-playing capabilities, but probably the biggest change is to the project database. I’m changing the storage mechanism from the old, built-in file format to a Firebird database.

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