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Author: mariuz
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The neglected driver …
Looks like the Firebird team is going to put some effort on the ODBC driver, which has been lying there abandoned for a few years (last activity report is of 2006) despite it’s usefulness in windows desktop apps (at least for me ;))
Don’t silently turn your outer joins into inner joins
Surprised by outer joins not returning the expected results? Looks like they behave like an inner join?
You are probably messing with the join and the where clause
PHP Firebird driver á la ActiveRecord
A very useful Firebird driver for performing most CRUD database operations in PHP.
Installing different versions of the Firebird in the same Operating System
Here is the translated version of the original article where is described how to run firebird 2.1 and older versions in the same time
eZ Publish, Joomla will add native support for Firebird in the future
If you look at Drupal and also Typo3, they already have multi database support.
Joomla! is currently at the beginning of developing a new Database Abstraction Layer . This new layer should also make it possible for developers to build more support for other database platforms.The new Database Abstraction Layer is not expected to be included in the current 1.5 version nor the upcoming 1.6.
If you want to read more about the new Joomla! called Joda, check there development blog.
Firebird 1.5 SQL Temporary Reference Update
This guide documents the changes made in Firebird 1.0 and 1.5 SQL since the fork from the open-sourced InterBase 6.0 codebase.
Here is the Pual Vinkenoog’s announcement on firebird-docs list
Just uploaded a Firebird 1.5 SQL Update Reference to this temporary location:
This is NOT ready for publication yet, but all the entries are there and (AFIACT) correct, except maybe in one or two places where I have to contact the developers for clarification.
I’ll commit the DocBook sources to the repository and build a version for publication. After that, I’ll start working on update refs for 2.0 and 2.1. After that, I guess we must take the 2.1 ref and start expanding it to a complete Firebird SQL reference. This last step may take some time 😉
Firebird 2.1.1 Release Candidate is now officially announced
The Firebird Team is pleased to make a release candidate available for field testing the first V.2.1.x patch release on Windows, Linux and MacOSX Intel platforms. Please test it hard and report any problems to the firebird-devel list.
Firebird extension will live on – hopefully
Seems that was an misunderstanding.
I have some inside information.Don’t you love people not getting the whole story …
At present the PHP team can’t even BUILD a windows version of PHP5.3 and it’s this that has caused the problems 🙂
Firebird 2.1.1 RC1 for Ubuntu released
The Firebird 2.1.1 packages are now in ppa for Ubuntu Dapper, Gutsy , Feisty , Hardy and Intrepid Ibex
The guide for installing is located in the ubuntu wiki
[Update:Intrepid/Dapper builds are added and is now officially released ]