Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
New presentation “Firebird Mythbusters” http://www.slideshare.net/mindthebird/firebird-mythbusters
Use it for competitive talks to crush the most annoying myths around
Firebird.
Gentle reminder – we still need localized versions of MindTheBird
presentation “Firebird Intro” and “Why Firebird”.
Best regards,
MindTheBird Team
David Elias wrote on django-firebird-dev group
about his backend changes to make Django 1.2 work with Firebird
Leonardo posted in his blog about developing web applications using Delphi/FreePascal. The article uses Firebird 2.1 as data source.
Adriano posted in his blog about new Window functions introduced in Firebird 3.
[…]Now, new window-only functions has been introduced. I’ll separate them in two groups: ranking and navigational. Both set of functions can be used with/without partition/ordering, but them does not make much sense without ordering.[…]
Read the full post here.
Thomas Steinmaurer made available for public download the PDF of his article about Firebird 2.5, published previously in the Entwickler Magazin.
adrianosf twiteed
New blog post – Window Functions (part2) – cumulative aggregates – http://bit.ly/8sgfKU.
And here the Hebrew version of the article
Adriano has published in his blog some information about the implementation of the OVER function in Firebird 3. Really cool.
By the SQL specification, window functions are a kind of aggregation, but which does not “filter” the result set of a query. The aggregated data is mixed with the query result set. That sort of functions are used with the OVER clause. Users of Oracle also knows window functions as analytical functions[…]
Inside the zip file you will find a nice pdf about why he uses Firebird and Euphoria Language example. I have uploaded the html version of the pdf here (transformed with pdftohtml)
Demonstration program for Firebird Server ODBC access using odbc.e and wxEuphoria with two-tone flexible datagrid. Uses the EMPLOYEE.FDB example database that comes standard with Firebird install.
