Firebird Adapter included in Sequel
Here is the discussion with the new inclusion in Ruby Sequel (Sequel is a lightweight database access toolkit for Ruby)
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Add and delete users of Firebird from C++ builder
Here is the article translated from Spanish
Top 4 Free Embedded Databases
I need an embedded database for my next project. During the last few days I’ve done a lot of virtual leg-work researching and comparing the various alternatives, trawling through documentation and forums. The results are below. Hopefully, if you’re ever in the same situation, this list will make your life a bit easier.
Fireruby – HowTo start with Firebird and Ruby on Ubuntu
Here are my notes for installing and testing Fireruby on Ubuntu
FireRuby updated – Bumped version to 0.5.9 for Rubyforge.
Firebird Extension Library for Ruby is now at version 0.5.9 , Only in Github repository , and now is in RubyForge
New articles about Entity Framework and Firebird
You can see two new blog posts about Entity Framework : OnValidate-Like Validation
Yesterday, while doing Entity Framework training, I got a good question. LINQ to SQL has a nice event called OnValidate, where you can validate your data. But Entity Framework classes don’t. As the only one good point to do the validation of entities in Entity Framework is during in SaveChanges in SavingChanges event, we have to utilize this event and build validation there.
You may wonder how to use usefull coalesce operator in Firebird Entity Framework.
Firebird 2.1.2 on Mips 64
Phillippe Makowski tested Firebird 2.1.2 and flamerobin on Mips64 , seems that qmtest ran all OK , So i guess it can be stamped as an good port
RedDatabase is included in Linux XP
Here is the translated article :
Companies SafeLine and corporation «Ed Software» announce that RDBMS Red Database 2.1.1 works correctly on OS Linux XP Desktop Enterprise Edition.
Tests were conducted to verify the compatibility of OC Linux XP and RDBMS Red Database, as very relevant to modern realities of solutions built on open source code. Both products are being developed and will be accompanied by the Russian team of developers, which creates certain advantages for users: You can not only solve current problems of the client, taking into account its industry, but also to minimize its further development costs and support information system.
The core of Red Database DBMS built on the basis of one of the most famous and popular in the world of open source database – Firebird 2.1, which is used in the decisions of various sizes, and consistent with worldwide industry standards for quality, reliability and security.
DATE Handling Functions – updated in wiki.firebirdsql.org
Cut and paste date functions. See Ivan Prenosil’s site for some more deatil and additional useful functions.
FLAP ( Firebird+Linux+Apache+PHPerl) is rather an operating platform than an application.
Linux can be of any common Linux distributions, but I prefer CentOS 5, and Firebird RDBMS is FirebirdSS 2.1.1 for Linux.
Since there are too many applications, really too many, to run on FLAP, it is impossible to list them all, or even impossible to list most of
them here, I just list the most commonly used FLAP applications here. If you are running any other FLAP applications, it would be a great
honour for me if I could have them listed/linked here.