Installing firebird 2.0.x client with screenshots
When configuring a Windows machine for use by the Evolution™ payroll service-bureau system, a common step is installing the open-source Firebird database software; this Evo Tip details the process.
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
General tips for FirebirdCS on Fedora , Centos, RHEL
The Evolution Payroll service-bureau system from iSystems, LLC employs a three-tiered architecture, with the backend being one or more Linux servers running the Firebird SQL database. Evolution is able to split the load across multiple DB servers on a per-client basis. As Service Bureaus grow, it’s common to add new DB servers to the system, and this Evo Tip covers the steps required to take a fresh Fedora Core system and prepare it for Evolution.
Editline, Curses and Solaris AMD64
We finally solved the last major problem in the Firebird 2.0x build for Solaris 10 AMD 64bit. Whenever we tried to include editline in the build isql_static would coredump. We tracked the problem down
The fastest way to insert 100K records
I’m doing some performance tests today with our three different database backends: MySql, Firebird and SQL Server.
Flamerobin 0.8.6 officially accepted in ubuntu hardy
Flamerobin 0.8.6 is now accepted in the official ubuntu 8.04 hardy repository
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/utils/flamerobin
here is the distro list where flamerobin 0.8.6 is included
Debian http://packages.debian.org/lenny/flamerobin
Gentoo http://gentoo-portage.com/dev-db/flamerobin
ibwebadmin 2.0 added to ubuntu ppa repository
I have created the ppa packages using the version 2.0 pre from cvs and it can be installed by an simple
$apt-get install ibwebadmin or with synaptic(gdebi)
http://jimicompot.blogspot.com/2008/04/ibwebadmin-20-added-to-ubuntu-ppa.html
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13170201/ibwebadmin_2.0-1ubuntu6_all.deb
Firebird on 2nd place in Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008
FWIW: Firebird won the 2nd place in the Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008.
http://entwickler-magazin.de/zonen/magazine/psecom,id,47,nodeid,17,p,0.html
Python backup script for firebird
Here is an cron backup script written in python
Firebird v.2.0.4 RC1 is ready in pre-release for field-testing
The Firebird Project team announces a release candidate for the Firebird 2.0.4 sub-release, now available to download and test on 32-bit Windows, 32-bit and AMD64 Linux and MacOSX for x86 and PPC. Please test it thoroughly and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel or the firebird-test list.
Installing Firebird 2.0 RDBMS on Ubuntu 7.10
[Yet another guide for installing firebird2.0.x on ubuntu] This is my attempt at installing Firebird 2.0 on Ubuntu 7.10.