Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
PDO database API adds Firebird support
jrmarino writes “Pascal Data Objects (PDO) is a database API that works equally well on FPC and Delphi. When I introduced this 10 months ago, only MySQL 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 were supported. Since then, I have moved the project to Sourceforge and recently added drivers for Firebird 1.5 and 2.0. Some new abstraction capabilities were also added.”
Via lazarus.freepascal.org
#firebird irc channel @ freenode.net
Ok, I know this is a totally sucky announcement not even worthy of
Firebird, but time keeps going by. I have yet to be able to get together
the info for a better one. So here is a very crude announcement.
CodeGear Launches Delphi for PHP for RAD Web Development
No mention of firebird but an interesting news for php/delphi developers
Using firebird from command line
Article in Italian on database.html.it
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.
“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.