mojoPortal 2.2.4.6 Released
I’m happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.2.4.6.
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Changing charset in firebird
Here is the article
Evaluating open-source DBs -Firebird Enterprise ready ?
The thread is on joelonsoftware.com and the question is about open source databases :
Quick issue, everyone. My company currently uses SQL Server, but we’re going to look at open-source databases because of MS’s crooked licensing rules (to be honest, they only have one SQL license, and are running it on a two-processor machine). They don’t want to shell out the extra $6,000 for another one, and I don’t blame them.
Jaybird 2.1.2 is Released
Jaybird 2.1.2 is released. It is a bugfix release that targets two main issues, JDK 6.0 compatibility and support for INSERT…RETURNING statements. More info at the JDBC Driver page.
Back to the Blog … back to the bug (report)
Today I decide to put up a post about a common requirement which leads to an interesting SQL query (see an example here) using Firebird and Flamerobin, after a few seconds I was writing bug reports
Installing firebird on macosx
Article in Spanish
http://www.llodra.es/archives/50
Origin of the firebird/interbase port 3050
Here is the question on Firebird-Support group
> How did port 3050 get selected as the “gds_db” service port. Was it
> chosen arbitrarily or is there some interesting story behind it? Maybe
> Jim Starkey’s phone number in Groton? 🙂
No story there at all. It was just a number that nobody else seemed
to be using at the time. And don’t ask me to remember a 25 year old
phone number … I barely remember my current number!
Cheers,
Ann
The Compete Guide to ODBC Escape Sequences in Firebird and Interbase (with ibprovider)
ODBC Escape sequences has included in ODBC standard and allows write SQL queries which compatible with many DBMS. Firebird and Interbase does not contains own implementation for escape sequences and therefore we have implemented them in IBProvider and now users can write compatible SQL queries for Firebird and Interbase as for MS SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 and etc.
Using new features of the Firebird 2.1 in the ADO .Net.
Beta version of the Firebird 2.1 database was published at the end of June. I suppose, most interesting features are the global database triggers, the temporary tables, possibility of the database monitoring through the SQL, canceling running queries and the new SQL statements. We are implemented new Firebird 2.1 features in IBProvider
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Oops, Look At That Phoenix, Rising From The Ashes
In a story headlined, “Open Source Code Contains Security Holes,” I referred recently to the Firebird database project as “somewhat moribund.” So imagine my surprise when a reader pointed out it was named project of the month in December by SourceForge, the dominant host of open source projects. Geez. Then there was the case of the supposedly “inactive” FreeBSD Unix.
Read the full response here