Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird and #vb.net – Howto solve datagridview issue after new record editing
The issue, typical in Firebird, consist in the fact that, after you insert a new record with an autoincrement field in a datagridview, we have to exit from the application to be able to edit the new inserted record.
To solve this issue you have to proceed this way
Firebird Conference 19.-21.11.2009 in Munich
This year’s Firebird Conference 2009 will take place from 19th-21st
November 2009 for the first time in Munich, Germany. IBExpert KG will bring the best international speakers of the industry together with Firebird developers from all over the world to share the latest information on
Firebird developments
Invalid BLOB ID bug in Firebird 2.1.3
Friday Fun with Firebird: Curious Backup sizes
There are some tricky and unclear things in Firebird, which do not affect the performance or reliability, but they are curious. Some of them we are going to show, but not explain.
Embedded Database For .NET
Some nice blog post about switching to Firebird Embedded on .Net
Firebird project seems to have an embeddable library for .NET available. I’ve successfully used Firebird database in my Delphi projects in the past and it was the perfect solution for a client-server architecture I’ve developed.
TPDA (Tiny #Perl Database Application) 0.70.1 released
TPDA (Tiny Perl Database Application) is a classic desktop, database application framework, written in Perl and pTk. TPDA has support for Firebird, Postgresql and MySQL.
Firebird and #Flamerobin used in Database Design course
Nicole Anderson from Computer Science Department Winona State University is using Firebird and Flamerobin in one of her Database Design course
Firebird 2.1.3 package is now in #Gentoo #Linux #Portage
Here is the ChangeLog for Firebird 2.1.3 package in Gentoo :
Bump to 2.1.2, mostly fixes #264955. Thanks to Vladimir, John W. Higgins and all the testers in the bug.
No need to panic over #MySQL – are other open source databases available. #PostgreSQL, #Firebird, #HSQLDB, even Apache #Derby
MySQL users are nervous about Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems, according to InfoWorld. You can see their point: Why would a company whose main product is a proprietary database be interested in maintaining an open source competitor to it?
There are other open source databases available. PostgreSQL, Firebird, HSQLDB, even Apache Derby can all be called into service, depending on your needs. The developer communities behind any of these projects would be more than happy to help scores of ex-MySQL users migrate to their particular platform. They almost certainly already have tools to do it