Firebird support for DBExpress
Please support Firebird database with the DBExpress driver. A huge percent of the Delphi community are Firebird users and are claiming for this.
Or at least help the Firebird team to implement this support in DBX4.
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
“Using an Embedded Firebird” example
Sean Riley shares his experience with getting the embedded Firebird to work with FirebirdClient 2.0 in forums.dotnetfirebird.org
New forums on DotNetFirebird.org
Because I’m not able to reply to all the questions about Firebird and .NET I’m getting, I’ve set up a new place to ask these questions: http://forums.dotnetfirebird.org. I’ll try to answer the questions if I know the answer. You might also get an answer from someone else if I’m too busy ;-).
Posted by Dan at dotnetfirebird.org
libdbi-drivers 0.8.2 released
The libdbi-drivers project hosts the database-specific drivers for libdbi, a database abstraction library written in C. Currently, drivers are available for Firebird/Interbase, FreeTDS (MS-SQL and Sybase client), mSQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite/SQLite3.
Release focus: Minor feature enhancements
Taking Firebird beyond the limit
From Jiří Činčura’s blog:
Well, a little bit weird heading. But a few days ago there was a really interesting discuss on the Firebird(CZ) list (about the ROW_COUNT variable). During the discussion I’ve decided (with Ivan Prenosil’s kick) to test what will happen if you’ll have more than 2G and also 4G records.
Paper covering Firebird
I have just published a performance benchmark paper which includes
Firebird in its tests.
http://devloop.org.uk/documentation/database-performance/
Firebird and VB.net blog now in english (updated)
Fyracle article in German
a German article about Fyracle has been published in the current edition
of the “Entwickler Magazin”. Selected articles are also available
online. The Fyracle article is one of them. You can read it here (in
German):
http://entwickler-magazin.de/zonen/magazine/psecom,id,8,online,1145,p,0.html
osFinancials Fork of Turbocash with Firebird datastore implementation
osFinancials is an open source accounting software package, started in august 2006 and is released under the GPL. It was forked from the open sources of TurboCASH. The developers have implemented the Firebird (database server) in the software for (external-) data storage and enhancing the multi-user capabilities.
New firebird packages (1.5.4 final and 2.0.1 RC1) for debian
Damyan Ivanov wrote on pkg-firebird-general mailing list :
I’ve prepared next versions of 1.5 and 2.0 packages. Respective versions
are 1.5.4.4910 final release and 2.0.1.12810 release candidate 1.Please give them a try and report any bugs to me or this list.
deb ftp://ftp.modsoftsys.net/public experimental main
i386 and amd64 binary packages are provided.