Flamerobin as a GUI for embedded Firebird – Howto
In general you just need to have Flamerobin connect to Embedded Firebird through local protocol, my setup with Firebird 1.5.3 is like this
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Oracle users keen on open source databases (firebird included)
Oracle users are keen supporters of open source software with as many as 60% of Oracle enterprise database sites including open source operating systems. This is accroding to a recent study, Open Source in the Stack, conducted by the Independnet Oracle Users Group (IOUG).
The survey of IOUG members conducted in June 2006 also found that as many as 37% of Oracle users were also running one of the popular open source databases alongside their Oracle implementations. [Firebird percentage is 2% in that report]
News via tectonic.co.za or read more at www.idoel.smilejogja.co…
Firebird on Windows XP Embedded [tablet pc]
I have installed an application of ours that uses Firebird 1.5
Embedded on a tablet pc running Windows XP embedded.
So far, fingers crossed touch wood and all that, it works well.
FBTalk.net is now back online :-)
I accidentally dropped the db that was used by FBTalk.net [ED:that is why it didn’t worked friday and gave some connection errors], this has now been
restored and http://www.FBTalk.net is now back up and running 🙂
Rgds
Si Carter
FIBS is Open Source Now
I’m happy to announce that FIBS’ source is available under the GNU GPL (General Public License) open-source licensing model at FIBS page.
Regards,
Talat Dogan
Firebird Tutorial for .NET 2.0
I’ve been promising the Firebird Tutorial for .NET for a long time.
Now there is a first “beta” version: http://www.firebirdtutorial.net/. I decided to start with the .NET 2.0 topics – a lot of interesting things happen around FirebirdClient 2.0 and there is not much documentation about it (unless you are a fan of mailing list browsing).
Change a database connection string from code in asp.net
The connection string to a database should never be hard coded in your application. There is (almost) always a difference between the development and production database server. Besides that IT management should have an easy way to change the configuration.
Read more on the weblog of Peter van Ooijen
Local backup of your database
We recently came across a neat and free backup scheduler that works for Firebird database tables. [it’s about FIBS backup scheduler]
firebird components for silent installer – it’s super
I [benomathew] was working on a setup program that installed an emergency server on one of the workstations when the database server is not available.. the program i created did a silent install of the firebird engine (by using the /SILENT command line parameter).. firebird has the following components
Firebird, nee Interbase
So are there any Firebird partisans out there who’d like to tell me what’s so great about Firebird? Thanks in advance, and I’m especially grateful for the flame-free nature of your expected contribution.
Here is where you can give an response