Mark Staples has this nice post on using F# with a Fire Bird database. While its not dissimilar to the OleDb example available on the F# wiki, it’s nice as Mark’s example links the database to a GUI and he provides a great explanation of the code.
Firebird site in spanish www.firebird.com.mx
Article By Bernie:
My usual front end is IBOConsole. Never knew there were others – IBAccess, Knoda (KDE only), ibWebAdmin and Flamerobin. Thanks to this article here – Firebird Database Configuration in debian.
Windows (setup & zip), Linux (gtk1 &. gtk2), Mac OS X and source packages are available for download. Read more here, changelog included
[ED:blog of the day is Ben Ward’s post about firebird vs sqlserver download sizes/requirements]
Originally, my Desktop Search application (‘Oak’) was to use a Microsoft SQL Server Express database backend. Full of glorious developer friendly features (like .NET integration) it is a powerhouse of a database.
goCRM had its initial release today, and it could be interesting to some as we’re giving away free, yes free, software, that could be useful to someone running a small business.
Technology
Open source databases are showing the highest growth rate in the database market, according to a new study by analyst firm Gartner.
[Quoting from this article where firebird is mentioned http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1781895,00.html]
For instance, our product, Vault, stores all data using Microsoft SQL Server. Some people don’t like this. We’ve been asked to port the back end to Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Firebird. This issue is in our bug database as item 6740. The four questions would look like this:
From the Site of the day department here is the firebird dedicated site in china www.firebird.net.cn/
[Ed : you will need the babel fish maybe ]
Warning : they are for documentation contributors not for distribution or end users (If you spot mistakes contact the firebird-doc team )
