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
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.
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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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.
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Here is the full thread on nhibernat and the quote
“However, the thing that finally made us switch from SQLite to Firebird was the fact that it only support one open transaction at a time. This makes it essentially useless for multithreaded/multiuser applications. SQLite is excellent for some tasks, but if you have more than one thread/process accessing the database at the same time you really should consider using another database. ”
The following was sent to Charles Babcock at Information week in reply to an article entitled:
Open Source Code Contains Security Holes
As a developer and administrator of the Firebird Project I completely reject the statement you made in the above article.
“The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it has verified zero and fixed zero. The active Firefox browser project, on the other hand,
has fixed 370 bugs, verified 56 and faces another 246 to verify and fix.”
From the FUD department Here is one sponsored article
The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it has verified zero and fixed zero
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technology, is available. Now with support for ftAutoinc fields and
for Delphi’s latest “December Update”.
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Ciao
—
Nando Dessena
www.ethea.it
I have just released a classic version of Firebird V2.03 for HPUX 11. This is a 64bit version for PA-RISC 2.0. The current install mechanism as per Firebird 1.5.x uses a tar file and scripts to install firebird into /opt/firebird etc. I think the time has now come to try and write a depot file so that we can use the HPUX installer to install firebird.
