The Firebird Commandline Utilities book has been split into separate manuals.
New:
With Visual Web Developer, from Microsoft you need to follow these steps
Firebird 2.5 architecture comparison sheet is available via this blog
http://blog.upscene.com/thomas/index.php?entry=entry091016-133211
This is based on Dmitry’s presentation and some private discussions
For another good overview you can read Douglas Tosi blog
Firebird 2.5 Architecture, by Dmitry Yemanov (presentation given at the 2008 Firebird Conference).
Pyrit’s storage code was abstracted and refactored which makes it possible to use relational databases like firebird
The benefit: Create a central mysql/pgsql/mssql/oracle/firebird/sqlite-server somewhere on your network and let multiple Pyrit-clients access and work on the central server for good; enjoy the blessings of ACID, partitioning, automatic backup, replication and fine-grained user authentication.
Some network maintenance operations need to be performed
During Summer of Code 2009 Christopher became a student for the MoinMoin wiki project.He worked on a SQLAlchemy backend that (in theory) allows you to run MoinMoin on a variety of database flavors including Firebird using sqlalchemy
data abstraction layer
I tried build FirebirdClient in Silverlight environment and I failed. I expected to fail after some attempts with modifications and using only subset of features like i.e for Compact Framework, but this was really fast. Silverlight is only subset of .NET Framework. And one crucial part is not there, it’s System.Data stuff and without it you can drop major part of any ADO.NET provider’s code.
Claudio answered to a “new feature” request
This command exists in all Firebird versions:
SQL> set stats on;
SQL> select 1 from rdb$database;
CONSTANT
============
1
Current memory = 10135512
Delta memory = 164708
Max memory = 10263380
Elapsed time= 0.11 sec
Buffers = 2048
Reads = 12
Writes 0
Fetches = 157
SQL>
Elapsed time is the time the query needed to complete. Run it a second time and the elapsed time is only 0.02 seconds because metadata is already loaded.
For those you wanted to test :
Fat Binaries of Firebird V2.1.3 for MacOSX 10.5+ (intel 32/64bit) are available for
download and testing.
http://ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_download_test
