Firebird 3.0 Initial Review and Presentation http://www.slideshare.net/mindthebird/initial-review-of-firebird-3
In this presentation Dmitry Yemanov, lead architect of Firebird Project, introduces the key advantages of upcoming major release of Firebird 3.
Meta has finally converted to Bitweaver and Firebird for website CMS and datastore respectively.
meta has used Joomla for several years to deliver corporate website information and client access to private areas and downloads. But finally Bitweaver has delivered a comprehensive CMS and web application framework backed by Firebird. We regard this as a major advancement in support of Firebird, Bitweaver and the opensource software movement.
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Read more of my journey here Firebird Bitweaver Windows and PHP
And find out some of the website feature which can make your use of this resource more appealing
Question of the day : I need to import a csv file into Firebird and I’ve spent a couple of hours trying out some tools and none fit my needs.
Under Fedora and derivative (including Centos and RHEL) :
yum install php-interbase
under Mageia and Mandriva
urpmi php-pdo_firebird
that’s all
see :
http://sophie.zarb.org/search?search=pdo_firebird.so&distribution=&type=byfile&d\
eptype=P
Here is the guide updated to current ubuntu releases also one thing to notice is php pdo is now core module and should not be installed from pecl repository
This fix corrects the error caused when reading an ftMemo field twice using the Firebird dbExpress driver.
Interesting issues and fixes with odbc and openoffice (usually you can use jdbc but that is another path to use firebird from OpenOffice/LibreOffice):
My name is Ocke Janssen, I’m the project lead of the dba.openoffice.org
project and I got a problem 😉
While trying to fetch bookmarks I crash inside the newest ODBC version
of Firebird.
You get an approximate value by running gstat and then check out the
Data pages value for the table. Multiply that value with your database page size. This is the allocated space on disk.
In this tutorial I will show you how to install multiple separate Firebird 2.1 servers on a single Host
What is Asyncronous System Trap ? : This is similar to Unixes signal’s or OS interrupts.
Technically this is callbacks from Lock Manager into the Engine called when
somebody acquires lock at level not compatible with current level. In this case
all processes who owns the lock receives notification and should take appropriate
action to release lock (immediately or deferred-ASAP).
The main trick with AST’s handlers is that AST is send asynchronously and
handler must take care to work correctly. Since v2.5 all ATS handlers runs in
separate thread. Before v2.5 it works using signals on Unixes and threads on
Windows.
PS the issue with old glibc and FB 2.5 is that since v2.5 we abandoned usage of old
System V semaphores (do you remember “semaphores are exhausted” error ? now
you can forget it completely) and start to use pthread mutexes. And old glibc have a
bugs in pthread mutex implementation.
